Just A Walk In The Sun with the Hereford Regiment Museum
A monthly podcast from the Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum. Hosted by Colonel Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts. Stroll with us around the highways and byways of Herefordshire while we explore the story of the our regiment and county in war and peace. Special guests, featured items from the museum's collection and highlights from the lives of those who served from our beautiful county... and a pint or two as well!
Episodes
30 episodes
A lost poem for a bomber crew, Napoleon's medal and other goings on
Join us this month at a recent meeting of the newly inaugurated Hereford Militaria Club - an opportunity for military researchers, collectors, military vehicle owners and family historians to meet over a meal and share no end of fascinating sto...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:36
Codes, ciphers and community - a chat with the Sutton Voices HR1 podcast
This month, Rev Paul Roberts joins the crew of the Sutton Voices HR1 Podcast, a community podcast from the Herefordshire village of Sutton St Nicholas. Keith Lawton and Mike Winnell have re...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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40:08
Minneapolis calling! A transatlantic chat with Alyn Tanner
This month Rev Paul Roberts chats with Ledbury-born military researcher, Alyn Tanner. Alyn, who runs the Herefordshire Regiment Research Group, talks about how he became in...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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23:58
Introducing Series 2 of Just A Walk In The Sun
A brief look forward to what will be coming in the second series of podcast episodes from the Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum, including chats with Aly Tanner, regimental researcher and founder of the Herefordshire Regiment Research Group o...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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2:58
Walking from Gold Beach to Hill 112: A D-Day Special
This month on the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts reflect on the role the Herefordshire Light Infantry played in the days after 6th June 1944, including the Regiment'...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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26:15
Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary - Part Four: trench routines, acting as guide, dysentery and final thoughts
The final part of Douglas Pike’s diary, runs through September 1915 until his evacuation from the Gallipoli Peninsula, suffering from dysentery. He includes fascinating details of everyday life in front line trenches, attacks by Turkish f...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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27:28
Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary - Part Three: a long watch, chasing the battalion, Chocolate Hill and settling in the line
This third extract of Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary finds him caring for Pte Yates, a wounded comrade through the night of 13th/14th August 1915, awaiting promised stretcher bearers, which never came. On reaching Lala Baba the next morni...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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25:21
Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary - Part Two: fighting, confusion, rations and a wounded comrade
This second part of Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary picks up on the morning of 10th August 1915. Douglas meets up with ‘A’ Company and they spend the day fighting alongside the South Wales Borderers; he is sent back to the beach for ration...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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25:17
Douglas Pike’s Gallipoli Diary - Part One: The First Day and Night at Suvla
We featured excerpts of Pte Douglas Pike’s diary in a podcast episode a little while back, looking at the first 24 hours at Suvla Bay. After a number of requests, here is the diary in full, detailing conditions faced by men of the 1st Herefords...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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22:58
Walking with the Herefordshire 250: the story of the Lonsdale Battalion
In this month’s episode, Col Andy Taylor is joined by Rev Paul Roberts from northern France, to explore the story of the men of the Herefordshire Regiment who were transferred to the 11th Border Regiment (the “Lonsdale Battalion”).
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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26:21
The story of an Anglo-German family in Ross-on-Wye in peace and war
Intrigued by a German sounding name on a war memorial at Walford, just outside Ross-on-Wye, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts do some detective work in this episode. They uncover the story Colin Baumgarte, killed with the Worcestershir...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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33:22
Walking since the Twelfth Century: a chat with Major James Hereford
This episode finds curator, Col Andy Taylor joined by Major James Hereford, former curator and Friend of the Museum. James shares with us his deep roots in the county - right back to Maurice de Hereford in the 1140s. We hear about s...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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23:43
Christmas Special - Testing the Boffins
In this, our special Christmas episode, Colonel Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts are joined by Major James Hereford and Danny Rees . Each of our museum boffins talk about their favourite exhibit in the Museum - we hear about the Drum Majo...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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44:11
What's Bromyard got to do with the sea, and other wanderings
This episode finds Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts taking a walk through the Herefordshire market town of Bromyard. They begin in St Peter's Church in the centre of the town, taking a look at the unusual First World War Memorial ther...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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31:13
BONUS Episode - A little bit more of Bill Jackson
Often the best stories come out once we stop recording! In this short bonus episode we hear a little bit more about Bill Jackson's time with the Herefordshire Light Infantry in the mid 1960s, including escape and evade exercises w...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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7:51
Bill Jackson: from Lucton cadet and Hereford Light Infantry officer to High Sheriff
This month we welcome old friend of the museum, Mr Bill Jackson to the podcast. Born in Hereford, and founder and chairman of Jackson Property, Bill cut his military teeth with the Lucton School C...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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35:38
The Herefords' first 24 hours at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli
Colonel Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts reconvene after the summer break, on the hottest day of the year, to follow in the footsteps of the Herefordshire Regiment at Gallipoli. The Suvla Bay landings on 9th August 1915 were fraught with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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34:53
Cadet Coronation Review Special Episode
Join the podcast team on Castle Green in Hereford for an episode recorded at the Cadet Coronation Review for Herefordshire on 17th June 2023. Hear the sounds of a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and over two hu...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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37:31
A walk over to the armoury: the evolution of the rifle
The county Volunteers were known to be excellent shots, winning competitions at Wimbledon and later Bisley. In this episode we take a deep dive into the history of the soldier’s main implement, the rifle – from the 1853 pattern musket, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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49:02
Walking in the footsteps of the Herefords at Mount Kemmel in Belgium
The podcast goes international in this delayed episode of Just A Walk In the Sun. Trustee Rev Paul Roberts and special guest, David Chambers travel to Belgium to explore the role played by the 1st Herefordshire Regiment in France in Augus...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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24:43
Peculiarities, Anomalies and Posers in the Museum Collection
In this month's episode, Andy Taylor and Paul Roberts are joined by Assistant Curator and all round expert, Danny Rees to explore some of the mysteries, unanswered questions and anomalies among the museum's collection and men from the Regiment....
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:30
Just a Moth-Eaten Rag and other Leominster Stories
This month's episode finds Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts taking a walk around the highways and byways of Herefordshire market town, Leominster. They start at the railway station exploring the story of the breakfast stop over for th...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:29
In search of William Garland and the Rotherwas ordnance story
This month's episode finds Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts in the grounds of St Michael's and All Angels' Church, Bodenham at the grave of William Garland, who died on 27th July 1942. Further research shows that, this Great War veter...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:53
Just a Walk in the Snow with 96 Geese and 825 Mince Pies - Christmas Special
Happy Christmas everyone! In this special festive edition of the podcast, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts explore different Christmas with the 1/1st and 2/1st Herefordshire Regiment during the Great War and with the Regiment ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:11
Ledbury, the Lusitania and Prison Lager - one man's story
In this month's episode, Col Andy Taylor and Reverend Paul Roberts reveal a family secret, explore the high streets and bye streets of the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury, and follow in the footsteps of Territorial bandsman and prisoner of...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:05