The Great War Tour with Norm Christie
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Play S1 E1Military historian Norm Christie takes a pilgrimage to significant great war sites, some familiar and others more surprising.
20181 season
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6 episodes
- 1. Arthur Currie : Master of WarGeneral Sir Arthur Currie led the Canadian Corps to a series of spectacular victories hastening the end of the Great War. Norm Christie retraces Currie's rise from amateur soldier to the most successful Allied general. He asks why Currie was feted throughout Europe and the Empire yet maligned by enemies and forgotten at home.CCAug 20, 2018
- 2. The MissingFew Canadians know that 20,000 Canadian soldiers killed in the Great War are still missing. Some lie in unnamed graves others vanished on battlefields in France and Belgium. Norm Christie reveals why so many men disappeared. He solves a 90 year old mystery finding 44 men lost at the Battle of Vimy RidgeCCAug 27, 2018
- 3. Sacred PlacesHistorian Norm Christie visits the Western Front battlefields, where the real story of the war is in the cemeteries. Here he discovers how these faraway, exquisitely designed, and little-visited burial grounds, with their thousands of Canadian dead, are sacred places.CCSep 3, 2018
- 4. The Vimy PilgrimageNorm Christie recounts the extraordinary story of the largest peacetime armada in Canadian history - the spectacular 1936 Vimy pilgrimage to Europe - to honour the 60,000 dead of the Great War, and to unveil Canada's magnificent war memorial at Vimy Ridge.CCSep 10, 2018
- 5. The WoundedThe Great War marked a turning point in the treatment of battlefield wounds. Many techniques developed during that time are still used today. In this episode, Norm Christie takes viewers to the sites of frontline hospitals, casualty clearing stations and medical ships to tell the dramatic story of the Canadian Medical Corps in the First World War.CCSep 17, 2018
- 6. Your Granddads WarRandall Christie and his brother John served four years in the Great War and like most veterans rarely talked about their time in the trenches. 100 years later Norm Christie retraces his granddads warCCSep 24, 2018
The Great War Tour with Norm Christie
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Military historian Norm Christie takes a pilgrimage to significant great war sites, some familiar and others more surprising.
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