The No.4 in Normandy. Bolt-Actions, Boots and Battle Dress.
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2019
- A Wirksworth Gunroom and Bloke On The Range collaboration. What happens when two riflemen find themselves alone in Normandy in 1944 with nothing but their No.4 Lee-Enfields?
Follow up discussion video on Bloke On The Range channel here: • Amateur Dramatics: The...
You three made a great team.
Thanks for all your work.
If only they had Rob marching out is his red tunic and bearskin hat at the end....
“A Canadian looking for his brother” Lmao!
The brothers represent by Rob at BML are Seaforths from Canada and during that period were deployed on the Italian Campaign. Either way i appreciated the subtle humor
@@vincetytler6175 No wonder that one couldn't find the other.
You three need to team up with Rob and Ian and do a WW2 movie.
Sounds marvellous, we'll apply for an Arts Council Grant!
HAHA The bloke looking for his brother wouldn't happen to be one of the Mckenzie brothers? HAHA! That was funny, and interesting to see the different uniforms.
That just dropped in, so neatly.
This makes dads army look like Delta force.
Enjoyed the music. The end is the meaning. Thanks
That was fun! Well prepared and conducted!
Loved it!
Well done sir.
Brilliant, as a squeezebox player so nice to hear a melodeon as soundtrack!
1Ringsmith The Durham Rangers
@@californiadreamin8423 yup, lovely tune & an excellent salmon fly, both of which have brought me success! !
Excellent
Heinz Sperrholz, Wilhelm Planke und Hans Bauholz :-D
Glad that somebody was paying attention! :)
No one has yet mentioned the other Wilhelm yet 😱
@@thebotrchap So much suspense! :)
Or nobody has bothered watching all of it!
@@thebotrchap I heard the other Wilhelm, echoing in the grass.
Lovely!
The tune at 3 minutes is "The Durham Rangers". Appropriate because the 50th Division landed on Gold beach. Only one VC was awarded on D-Day by Sgt Stanley Hollis of the Green Howards from Middlesbrough.
The tune has several names, Durham Rangers, Lord Middleton's Hornpipe and also Merry Sherwood Rangers. It was chosen for the latter as our "Stout Yeoman" is from that unit which also landed on Gold Beach on D-Day.
The Wirksworth Gunroom 🌞🌞🌞
So, for a cookie break doctrine says that you change from helmet to beret? ;)
It's a comfort thing - British soldiers typically took their helmets off at any excuse, and in that period people typically wore hats generally when outdoors, so on went the beret or (in my case) Cap GS. There's plenty of references in memoirs etc. of the chain of command being exasperated that the helmets were worn as little as possible.
@@BlokeontheRange I figured. If only there was a way to build comfortable helmets ;)
@@samuelschwager TBH that Mk.IV I'm wearing there is far lighter and more comfortable than the Mk.6 I was issued as a UOTC peon...
@@samuelschwager When I finally got my M1 steel helmet to fit comfortably for most of a day's work, the army replaced it with the first generation Kevlar. That was a pain, since the suspension straps felt like they would cut a circle out of your scalp.
@@martinmorehouse9645 Fortunately I didn't have to use my model 71 steel helmet much. Had I done my basic training in 2004 instead of 2003 I would have gotten the new kevlar helmet (in the swiss army old troops don't usually get upgraded to the new stuff...).
Wouldn't the Tankie have had an Enfield revolver?
Quite probably but he would equally likely have had a rifle. He's come from a wrecked armoured car which would have had a BREN and it would be surprising to not have taken a STEN or rifle along on a recce. We had use of neither a BREN nor a revolver and it's perfectly reasonable for him to just have the rifle. Even on tanks they had rifles and STENS as well as revolvers. Not the best pic but it illustrates this:
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@@TheWirksworthGunroom A fair point. If I was on a dismounted recce, I would definitely prefer the rifle.
@@TheWirksworthGunroom My grandfather drove armoured cars in France. I did ask him once if they issued him a Sten or revolver and he said, "No, just a standard rifle."
Might want to add sounds of frequent fighter & bomber overflights.
File under "things you can't do once the video has been uploaded and published" ;)
Had enough trouble with the sound as it was! For sure, it would have been rather nosiy - check out the discussion video.
Was that a stick figure German that fell out of the tree where the three of you first met (7:39)? As a Canadian, I assume the bearskin will appear in a second video?
SS sniper - died laughing at our acting!
Those are a couple of old soldiers. Looks like the WWII British Army is scrapping the bottom of the man power barrel!
Not at all - I'm 38 so ripe for having been conscripted some time from '39 onwards, and Neil could easily have volunteered or been conscripted early-war (or been TA pre-war) despite being a bit older.
@@BlokeontheRange "A bit". Very kind Sir!
By 1944, the British Army was very much scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel. Two divisions were disbanded to provide battle casualty replacements. Conscription age had gone up to 41 and everybody was being trained as infantry because of shortages. Granted I'm older than that but could easily have been my age if I'd been in the Territorial Army pre-war. As a rule though, it is true that the majority would have been much younger. Must spend more on rejuvenating cream.
Interesting! I'm not very familiar with how the British were dealing with their manpower issues. Being from the USofA, I've read about how the US Army was dealing theirs, e.g., disbanding anti-aircraft units to provide more infantry.
@@pmgn8444 Similar happened in the British Army, artillery being retrained as infantry, especially anti-aircraft artillery as the air threat decreased.
The only thing more atrocious than the video quality is the music editing I dare say.