Fricourt to Flatiron
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Welcome to Season 6! My wife went away with the kids and instructed me not to anything rash while she was away. So I got on a ferry and went to the Somme.... In this episode, recorded on the Somme battlefields we travel from Fricourt to Mametz via Flatiron Copse and visit some of the cemeteries and memorials on this beautiful part of the Somme battlefield. Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/footstepsblog https://www.patreon.com/footstepsofthefallen
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