It’s nice to receive positive news and exposure, Andre Keartland sent his in this morning to The Observation Post and its a great revival of an old OP post “Jackie the Baboon Soldier of World War 1” (see link below) – he said “Now this is quite a feather in the cap for “The Observation Post”. The podcast “The Rest is History” is by far the largest history-focused podcast in Britain, and is one of largest in the world. They have thousands of listens for each episode. In March 2024 they did an episode on “The Greatest Monkeys in History”. One of the featured animals (and they acknowledge he was not a monkey) was Jackie the Baboon.
During the podcast on the “The Rest is History” they reference and give a shout out to “The Observation Post” as their main source on the topic. Here is a link to the YouTube video of this episode. Jackie is mentioned at about 40 minutes in – enjoy.
The Observation Post 
Have always loved the story of Jackie. I heard about his exploits at a young age, when either my Dad or Grandad told me about him (along with Nancy the Springbok).
Nice to see you get the kudo’s for the Observation Post Pete, clearly being more widely read than we thought.
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