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Ypres 1914: The First Trench
Beneath the farmland of Northern Belgium lie graveyards, the final resting place of the fallen of the First World War. A
Serre 1915: Brothers in Death
Serre in Northern France was an infamous German stronghold in the Great War. Thousands died here, many of them buried wh
Loos 1915: The Underground War
Tunnels and craters in the heart of a French coalfield hide horrors from the First World War. More than 50,000 British s
Beaumont Hamel 1916: The Wounded
Our team of archaeologists, forensic experts and historians travel to the front lines of the Battle of the Somme, a sect
Passchendaele 1917: Drowning in Mud
In Northern Belgium lies the site of the infamous battle of Passchendaele, fought in 1917, a place where man and beast d
Barnardo Boy
An excavation yields evidence of WW1 mortar bombs. Its position reveals it is a ‘trench mortar pit’, key to the Alli
Man & Horse
In the First World War, men on horseback with swords fight against an emerging modern weapon, the machine gun. In Northe
Secret Trench
A mystery is uncovered in a once beautiful Belgian village that played a critical role in the final days of the First Wo
Codename “Tank”
The ‘landship’ was a fearsome modern weapon that stunned Germany in the Great War. The British creation of The Tank
Buried Alive
In 1916, Canadian soldiers suffer more than 24,000 casualties during the Somme Campaign. and were tasked with assaulting
The Rings
In a war when so many dead were lost or simply dumped into shallow graves, the Trench Detectives come across a body buri
Silent Witness
This is a story of hunters and the hunted. During the Great War, German officers weary from the Eastern Front sought R&R
Highland Warrior
September 1915 saw the first massive Allied attack on the German positions at Loos, Belgium. The battle also marked the
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