Searching for the Lost of World War One
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English - November 19, 2021 00:30 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Society & Culture politics interview leadership entrepreneurship business entrepreneur health comedy news culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
At the end of the World War One, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was unknown. Families could be waiting weeks, months or years to hear whether their loved ones were imprisoned, wounded, missing or dead, if they heard at all. This was the task of the searchers. In the years following the war, these volunteer investigators conducted 5 million interviews, finding answers for around 400 thousand families. Robert Sackville-West is on our sibling podcast, Warfare, to bring us the stories of those looking for news of their fathers, brothers and sons, and the evolution of the search to this day. Robert’s book ‘The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War’ is out now.
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