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Despatches: The Butte de Warlencourt

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Welcome to Despatches, a new short-form podcast from The Old Front Line. These new shorter Pods will look at some specific aspects of the Great War and the landscape of the battlefields of the First World War. They will be published in addition to the regular episodes.

In this first Despatches episode we travel to the Somme and look at the Butte de Warlencourt, the old burial mound where the fighting came to an end in November 1916. It was in the news this week having had a change of ownership, and we look at its history and consider how and why sites like these can be preserved.

The official Butte de Warlencourt website is here: https://www.buttedewarlencourt.com/

The Butte de Warlencourt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ButteDeWar

The Hawthorn Crater Association is here: https://hawthornridgeca.com/

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