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, RESERVE LEUTNANT HERMANN KOHL describes the new 'landships' in action. Hermann Kohl was 17 when war broke out. He joined the Bavarian Infantry near the Franco-German border, fighting at Ypres in 1915. He was wounded at the Somme, but survived the War, earning the Iron Cross (1st & 2nd Class) for gallantry in action. After the War, he returned to the Rhineland where in 1932 he wrote an account of his war experiences. SOURCE | The German Army on the Somme, Jack Sheldon. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.