Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

Send us Fan MailShortly after the first German gas attack at Ypres in April 1915, rumours began circulating among the troops that the body of a Canadian soldier had been found crucified on the door of a barn, his body pierced by eight German bayonets.The crucified soldier remains one of the great legends of the Great War. Did it really happen, who was he, did his family know?In this episode we analyse the story of the crucified soldier, study German atrocities in Belgium in 1914, hear the story of how a remarkable piece of artwork sparked a diplomatic incident between Canada and Germany, and how the undiscovered notes of a British nurse led to the probable identity of the soldier being revealed once and for all. Support the podcast: www.patreon.com/footstepsofthefallen