EPISODE · Dec 18, 2025 · 35 MIN
Episode 4 — “Five Men at Mons: Human Stories from the First Shots of the Great War”
from Remembering the Fallen: The Great War Education Trust Podcast · host Lucy
In this episode, Lucy tells the stories of five soldiers caught in the chaos of the Battle of Mons — the moment the British Expeditionary Force first met the full force of the German Army in August 1914.Through their experiences, we see Mons not as a sweeping manoeuvre on a map, but as a series of human moments: courage, confusion, endurance, and the sudden collision between expectation and reality. Some survived, some did not — but each man’s story reveals what it meant to be among the first to fight, retreat, and hold the line in the opening days of the Great War.With archival research, personal detail, and a deep sense of compassion, Lucy brings these five soldiers back into focus, showing how the earliest battles shaped the rest of the war — and the lives left behind.
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In this episode, Lucy tells the stories of five soldiers caught in the chaos of the Battle of Mons — the moment the British Expeditionary Force first met the full force of the German Army in August 1914.Through their experiences, we see Mons not as a sweeping manoeuvre on a map, but as a series of human moments: courage, confusion, endurance, and the sudden collision between expectation and reality. Some survived, some did not — but each man’s story reveals what it meant to be among the first to fight, retreat, and hold the line in the opening days of the Great War.With archival research, personal detail, and a deep sense of compassion, Lucy brings these five soldiers back into focus, showing how the earliest battles shaped the rest of the war — and the lives left behind.
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Episode 4 — “Five Men at Mons: Human Stories from the First Shots of the Great War”
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