Lost Battalion Tours - Testimonial

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Hey Folks, Mr. Jeremy Bowles very graciously came on the podcast to share his tour experiences with Robert J Laplander with us. Jeremy is a WW1 historian and reenactor, and the journey he had in the Meuse-Argonne with Rob was so moving it simply needs to stand alone as its own mini-episode.

Listen to Jeremy’s story about being in the Meuse, and know that the goal of Lost Battalion Tours is to provide you with the same experience in August of 2020. So come join us!

Lost Battalion Tours

Mike’s contact info: [email protected]

Robert’s contact info: [email protected]

Robert’s website: http://www.findingthelostbattalion.com/

Jeremy closes his experiences with the poem “We Shall Keep the Faith” by Moina Michaels, which was the moving response to LTC John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields:”

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,

Sleep sweet - to rise anew!

We caught the torch you threw

And holding high, we keep the Faith

With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red

That grows on fields where valor led;

It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies,

But lends a lustre to the red

Of the flower that blooms above the dead

In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red

We wear in honor of our dead.

Fear not that ye have died for naught;

We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought

In Flanders Fields.

Source: http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/moina-michael-we-shall-keep-faith.htm

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Mike with Battles of the First World War podcast. I'm here with
0:08.0	Mr. Jeremy Bowles. Mr. Bowles has been to the Murs Argon with Robert J. Laplander, whom I have
0:17.5	partnered with to conduct Lost Battalion tours.
0:26.9	So I'd like to open up this episode by letting Jeremy share his experiences when he was at the in the Mersargon last year with Rob Laplander.
0:32.5	Jeremy.
0:32.9	Hi, Mike.
0:33.4	How are you doing?
0:35.8	Thank you.
0:36.8	Good, good.
0:37.3	Thank you. Thanks so much for coming on. Good, good. Thank you.
0:37.6	Thanks so much for coming on.
0:40.7	So, yeah, as you were saying, I was over and the Muse Argonne last year for the
0:47.3	Centennial with Rob.
0:50.5	Rob and I, we were conducting the Lost Battalion tours together.
0:56.0	And in addition, Rob was assisting me and tracking my great-grandfather's footsteps.
1:04.3	My great-grandfather was Andrew Perry Craig.
1:09.2	He served in B Company of the 314th Machine Gun Battalion, 80th Division.
1:16.9	Andrew actually came in very late in the war as a replacement. He came out of Wilmington, Ohio,
1:24.2	and he didn't arrive there and joined the 80th division until around October 10th to the 25th,
1:33.8	somewhere in that time frame. At the time, the 80th division was on the line around Madeline Farm just between Cunel and Nantua.
1:50.0	One day when Rob and I had a little bit of free time in the afternoon, Rob took me out to Madeline Farm in that region of the Mews are gone so I could see the area that
2:05.3	my great-grandfather was meeting the division at. And it's a beautiful picturesque country
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