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Mons - a story of firsts and lasts

29 min • 10 november 2020

This special episode to coincide with Remembrance Day takes us to Mons in Belgium, where the first actions of the Great War between the British and Germans took place. We visit the first and last shot memorials, and the grave of the first VC winner of the Great War. We hear about the first and last British soldiers to die, and the death of the last Commonwealth soldier to die, shot dead by a German sniper just two minutes before the Armistice. We end with the poignant story of a Surrey mother whose Armistice day celebrations were torn apart by the postman's knock.