Arras - The Raid at Blangy

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The story behind a famous photograph from the First World War of the men of 10th (Service) Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the Arras sector in 1917.

Chris Baker’s article:

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/10th-scottish-rifles-trench-raid-and-an-oft-used-photograph/

Many thanks to Chris for permission to use his article.

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0:00.0	On such occasions, many acts of gallantry are performed and pass unnoticed, and the number who receive decorations is small.
0:14.8	Herbert J. Gunn, author of 10th Battalion, The Cameroonians, Scottish Rifles.
0:21.6	The Cammaroneans, Scottish Rifles. The
0:40.3	The Hey, folks. Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast.
1:20.6	So this episode is dedicated to my friend Ryan, who is the inspiration for this short little episode.
1:31.1	Ryan listens to the podcast, and he reached out to me with a question about the old BFWWP logo I used.
1:42.6	That image, which you can see on my Twitter and Mastodon accounts, is a well-known and much-used photo of British troops running out of a sap trench during a raid on German trenches.
1:58.4	Ryan asked about the background of the photo, as he has it in mind for a future project of his.
2:05.6	Off the top of my head, I knew the photo was a real combat photo, taken of British troops as they
2:11.1	jumped off into action. I remembered vaguely that the troops in the photo were Cameroonians, Scottish rifles,
2:19.2	and that the photo was taken on the Arras front in 1917.
2:24.5	You'll see the photo attributed to other places on the Western Front,
2:28.4	notably the Somme, but it's from Arras, folks.
2:32.6	I wanted Ryan to have the correct information,
2:36.0	so I did a bit of digging on Google.
2:43.0	What I found got me to thinking,
2:45.0	why not try to put together a quick episode
2:48.0	on the background of that photograph
2:50.0	and offer it to my patrons on Patreon as a free
2:53.6	and extra episode that I'll release to the general public later.
3:00.9	Searching the web brought me to several excellent sources for the episode.
3:05.8	I want to begin by thanking Chris Baker of the Long, Long
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