Better make your peace with you, Jesus, fellows, before you go up there.

A 37th Division doughboy to private Horace Baker and his comrades of M Company,

128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Red Arrow Division, AEF, 5th Corps Sector, Mursargonne, October 3rd, 1918. The

The You know, Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast episode 78 at a stiff price.

Shout out this episode go to new Patreon patrons Jeff and Mark.

Both of these gentlemen will have early access to all new episodes, as well as access to other episodes not yet released to the general public.

Folks on Patreon and elsewhere, if you haven't already seen, the next Patron's Only episodes will be on the Second Battle of the Marne.

I look forward to looking at that monumental battle from as many sides as possible. That was a really international engagement.

Folks, I'll keep the pitch short this time. Patreon, you know what it's about and how it supports the show.

The link is patreon.com backslash battles of the First World War podcast.

You will not be charged until a new episode is released.

And support starts at a dollar US. as little as a dollar, folks.

Second admin note is that recently I was invited onto Matt Dixon's excellent podcast,

Footsteps of the Fallen, where he and I did one of his trench talks episodes.

For about an hour, we talked to all things AEF and the American experience in World War I.

The episode is called The Do Boys with Mike Cunia, but really Matt's episodes are just phenomenal. The level of knowledge Matt has is stunning.

Join him on his episodes for long audio walks through parts known and unknown on the Western Front.

The really awesome thing is that he branches out and covers all sectors of the old front line,

from the Brits to the French to the American.

Don't miss out, folks.

Links to footsteps of the fallen are in the episode notes.

The last admin note I have for now is that Rob and I are relaunching our Mursargon tour for summer 2020.

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