FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE 6 | Battlefield Tour Day 1 - Sunken Lane & Hawthorn Crater, Beaumont Hamel
Channel: ChromeRadio
Date: 2018-10-21

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.

In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.

In this podcast, we join the students on their visit to SUNKEN LANE and the HAWTHORN CRATER.  It was in Sunken Lane that cameraman Geoffrey Malins filmed the Lancashire Fusiliers waiting to attach Beaumont Hamel on the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, shortly before the explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine.

IMAGES
(1) Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine at 7.20 am on 1 July 1916 - By Ernest Brooks - This is photograph Q 754 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no 1900-09), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=537224. 
(2) Aftermath of the Hawthorn Redoubt mine -  By Ernest Brooks - This is photograph Q 756 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums, Public Domain  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=537355.  
(3) Lt Geoffrey Malins filming the preliminary bombardment of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 - By Geoffrey H. Malins (1886-1940) - How I Filmed the War: A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. Jenkins, London 1920, Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47269384.  (4) 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, near Beaumont Hamel - By Ernest Brooks - This is photograph Q 744 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no1900-09), Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=567081.
(5) All other images © Chrome Media Productions Ltd.

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.