First broadcast on 23rd November 2017 on BBC Radio, only days before the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Les Rue Verte - which the media called 'Guernsey's Finest Hour'.
You can now follow the history and story of Britain's only French speaking Regiment and the last of the Pal's battalions. Listen as they leave to fight in France, face the monotony of the tenches and then the impossible tasks of holding the British line not just once, but twice.
Amongst this you will find the littered stories of the men who held fast as those around them fell back, continuing to fight against terrible losses. Hand to hand fighting amongst withering shell fire, yet again and again the RGLI stood beside the growing wounded and killed.
After three long days the fighting was over with the bodies of some Guernsey men lost in the soil of Flanders, whilst at home the telegrams begin arriving just days before Christmas.
Follow the 'Norman Ten Hundred' as they face the last German Offensive of the Great War, Operation Georgette, the Battle of the River Lys and their fighting retreat until they were at last relieved. When the Roll Call is taken only 57 officers and men are left. Using the lost voices of RGLI Private Edmund Lenfesty and General Horrace Burkes assisted by BBC's Dean Hollingsworth and Guernsey's Dennis Burns, Guernsey's Finest Hour is written, narrated and produced for the BBC by military broadcaster Chris Oliver. It is copywrite of the RGLI Trust.
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