The War Comes Home | The Somme (Part 2)

With the Battle of the Somme almost a year away, tragedy hits the Attenborough family for the first time.   

One Attenborough brother faces weaponised gas at Loos – the biggest battle of the war so far. Will he make it home? Join host and genealogist Jen Baldwin and her guest Harvey Henson, Somme specialist and Commonwealth War Commission Communications Coordinator, to examine the chaos that unfolded at Loos, and its effects on one ordinary Leicestershire family.  

Host and researcher: Jen Baldwin 

Guest: Harvey Henson (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) 

Editor: CM87Edits 

Script editors: Niall Cullen, Daisy Goddard, and Madeleine Gilbert 

Producers: Madeleine Gilbert, Ellie Ayton, and James Plumb 

Designer: Michael McCosh 

Social media: Sarah Cornes 

Executive Producers: Helen Kaye and Steve James 

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