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Live From Belgium - 100th Anniversary Of Passchendaele
Stuart broadcasting live from Shrewsbury Forest near Yrpres, near the spot where former Saints & England rugby captain Edgar Mobbs was killed in action.
Live from Shrewsbury Forest near Yrpres, near the spot where former Saints & England rugby captain Edgar Mobbs was killed in action on 31st July 1917. Mobbs, a Lieutenant Colonel, led his men in a charge against enemy machine gun posts but was shot and died in Shrewsbury Forest. He was 35. His body was never recovered from the spot where he fell.
Stuart is joined in Belgium by Mobbs great, great nephew Phil Mobbs, by historian Jon Cooksey, former Sainst & England star Phil Dowson who is now a coach at Saints, and BBC Radio Northampton Sports Editor Graham McKechnie.
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Mon 31 Jul 201706:00
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