Tales from the Battlefields

71: Discovering the Forgotten


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In this episode we discover how 2 soldiers' have been discovered decades after they had been forgotten. Fred Smith died 3 years after he was badly wounded and was never commemorated until recently. John Butt was thought to be one of the missing but now has an identified grave at Ypres. We discover their stories by talking to the historians who uncovered their tragic stories. 
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Tales from the BattlefieldsBy Terry Whenham

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