Dominic Sandbrook

But Edith stays on with her assistant, who's called Miss Wilkins.

And would I be correct in assuming that Miss Wilkins is English as well?

Exactly she is.

I imagine her as having steel-rimmed spectacles.

Prosme.

So then, a few weeks later comes the moment that changes her life.

So these two guys were both in the Cheshires and they both fought in the Battle of Mons.

Remember the Angels of Mons, Tom, the archers who saved the British?

So they were both badly wounded in the British retreat from Mons.

They were captured and they were taken to a temporary German hospital in a nearby convent, German military hospital.

Now both of them incredibly managed to escape from the Germans in the night and they hid in a village where Belgian families took them in and now they need Edith's help basically because they're still injured and they need to get out of Belgium and she says yes she will she will help them.

This is when Marie has come to ask her, will she do it in principle?

And then on the evening of the 1st of November, 1914, a guide brings these two blokes to Edith's clinic, which is at Rue du Convent in Brussels.

And Boga, or Bodger as you call him,

is dressed as a factory worker, and he's wearing what I read is a floppy Belgian black beret.

So he looks very entertaining.

And he's grown a beard to disguise himself.

No British soldier would ever have a beard at this point.

And he's wounded, so he'd been hit in the hand and the thigh and the foot.

So he needs medical help.