About this episode

This episode addresses listener questions about life, death, and survival on First World War battlefields, including burial practices for veterans.

In this Old Front Line Q&A episode, we tackle a fascinating range of questions from listeners about life, death, and survival on the battlefields of the First World War. We begin by exploring whether veterans of the conflict were ever allowed to be buried within the official war cemeteries alongside the comrades who fell during the war, and look at the rules established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission after the creation of the Imperial War Graves system. Did any veterans later r...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Reed

Topics covered

• First World War
• veterans
• war cemeteries
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• life and death on battlefields

Keywords

• First World War
• veterans
• war cemeteries
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• battlefields
• life and death
• survival

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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