THE STORY OF THE SOMME 19 | Supplying the Troops - Corporal Osman Flowers

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, CORPORAL OSMAN FLOWERS talks about being a driver during the War. Osman Flowers joined up at Doncaster in October 1915. According to his enlistment documents, he was 5’ 6” tall. After two months’ training, he was sent to France as a driver in the Mechanical Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, arriving at Rouen just before Christmas 1915. SOURCE | The Somme, Lyn McDonald PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Patrick McKeating, Pimlico Academy | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.