WW1 Finding the Lost Battalions - recovery of British and Australian bodies (UK C4 2010)
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024
- The bodies of over 900,000 World War I soldiers were never found or identified. This documentary special embarks on a journey to discover the story behind some of these forgotten soldiers, those with no grave, who are remembered collectively as “Unknown Soldiers”.
In an astonishing discovery made in 2009, 250 of these British and Australian soldiers were found in six un-marked mass graves in Fromelles, a tiny village in Northern France.
This is the story of the journey to recover them, reveal their identities and give them the military burial that they never had when they fell 90 years before.
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When I was a boy in the 1970s, I had a favorite great-uncle and a dear friend, both of whom served in the AEF and Sam was wounded by an artillery fragment at Chateau Thierry. I loved listening to both men at the time and only wish I could talk to them with the understanding that I have learned in the decades since they passed.
Samuel Koch and Uncle Harry Dom, you are both missed.
Thank you for this documentary. Things like this keep their memories alive for us.
...we shall not forget.
I am so emotional having found this documentary. My great great uncle was one of those found and identified using DNA. Pte Frederick Arthur Dyson...he was just 19 years old when he died there
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It must be a comfort for your family to know he has been found and given the dignified burial he deserves.
Through family history I have discovered 6 cousins who died in that war, two of whom are still missing.
My great grandfather and his two brothers were at the Somme battle, luckily they all survived, both the brothers being wounded the same day. 🙏
@@pauldurkee4764 it brings a lot of comfort for me, I can't speak for anyone else. Now I just hope that one day they find his 21 year old brother Bert, he's listed on the Menin Gate. 3 brothers signed up, only 1 came back
I am glad Frederick got a dignified resting place after so long in a mass grave. He is with his mates now and forever.
What did he die for? Where did he come from?
Not the country that we have now, one he would hardly recognise.
I was looking around for a documentary to watch, not intending on something like this, but happened upon it and stayed. Very interesting programme, extremely heart-rending and thought provoking. Enormous respect to Peter Barton and all else involved in investigating and helping to find if only a few of the fallen.
Had I passed away at merely 19 years of age, I would have been gone now for 44 years - just a memory.
R.I.P. to all the young men who, it would appear, lost their lives needlessly.
I am so glad they respected the memory and humanity of these soldiers and didn't show the remains. I was trying to find a documentary about this subject that wasn't gruesome or salacious, as so many appeared to be, judging from the thumbnails. Good to know there is one that approaches this topic with empathy and consideration.
And yet, they showed photos of dead soldiers….what’s the difference?
There are many experts on the subject of the great war, but to me Peter Barton is a standout researcher and presenter.
Amazing documentary. God bless these young men.
Very moving. Thanks for taking the time to upload this.
Cheers from Canada North
:'( That lady summed it up quite beautifully at the end. So many young men died and WHAT FOR? :'(
All soldiers deserve to go home, regardless of the side.
Germans dont
@@importedmusicRubbish!!!
This was a lovely documentary. Thanks for sharing. Love from America ❤
They thought they were going for a short glorious holiday for king and country? What a tragedy.
Parochials and ideological illiterates who figured it as an all-expenses paid means to see the world. This was touched on in the Australian movie, " Gallipoli ". It is one thing to make it up as you go on your own cognizance, but war is court martial and firing squad for conceived dereliction of duty.
My grandad wia somme
Otherwise i wont be here age 67
So incredibly sad but I'm glad they're found and I hope we never stop our search
Outstanding!
Beautiful...
The state of the British high command is truly horrific. I can't believe they were revereed for so long. Glad that history is catching up with them. Also sad that those other pits won't be touched. Probably lack of interest or money from the CWGC. 16...just in that one tiny sector alone. All you had to do was head to Munich and grab those documents from the archives and you would find the rest of the graves.
So long ago but it still hurts.
Yes, I was very much moved watching this.
Just an excellent video, but so very sad. The stupid, idiotic , strategy of the English Generals never ceases to astound me...
I found this very hard to watch so sad and heart wrenching
"If only the Generals had not been content to fight machine-gun bullets with the breasts of gallant young men, and think that that was waging war."
- Churchill 1931
respect to all
Don’t know any Aussies who considered themselves British especially after Gallipoli, when Aussies were no longer placed under British command. The contempt is real.
not anymore
perhaps you should watch this again but make sure you use some cotton buds to clean out yours ears and you will hear ..quote " Australia was still a NEW country and many young men considered themselves as British and decided to fight for the motherland " unquote.........some people like you just cannot resist trying to ignite the divide between people instead of seeing the picture as a whole.........
@@vincenthewlett4329 Very well said.
What a heartbreaking and sad story!!! 😢
With my own family history echoing to this.I find myself choking up constantly.. I have visited the graves in Rouen of my great uncle's...I am,the offspring of the one out of five men that went. The only one that survived.From NZ.
Nancy is from Glenbuck, a mining village made famous for Bill Shankly the man who made the modern Liverpool Football Club into what it is today
Which has absolutely nothing whatsoever, to do with the subject matter of this documentary.
The batmans wife lost her children and husband. Why did the landowners not help her or the officer he went with and came home minus a leg. Tragedy.
That 13:10 moment hits hard . I had 4 Great Uncles who went off with the AIF . One died of a Hip thigh injury in a English hospital on an Estate and was given a full ceremonial burial and tombstone
It's incredibly sad. The officer in charge of the attack was likely never held responsible. These generals that sent these poor young men over the top came from an era long before the invention of the modern levels of firepower available.
War...a word composed of three letters that reflects to describe ugliness and pain, not in the field, but rather leaves its mark on the memory of humanity in general, and is pain and mixed feelings of anger and muffled screams for the families of the missing... In war there is no victor, and only victory and defeat are counted for politicians and decision makers, but loss and the loss of a father The brother and son are pain that cannot be described in words or dictionaries
Bought me to tears
Like so many others, my great uncle Reginald France Addison, still lays somewhere in Flanders fields. His name is on the Menin Gate.
Absolute madness. And Vladimir Putrid does it again!
When will humans become civilized?
that can be answerd with one word NEVER ! 😒
It is just mans nature unfortunately. There will never be a " war to end all wars " ..too much money to be made in finding new , in genious ways to kill each other.
The ancient saxon warrior attitude coming through from the germans, by leaving all objects with deceased, so the the most precious items to be taken to the after life, you wouldnt get that now in wars, pockets would be rifled, and gold/silver watches, chains, rings, lighters anything of slightest value would be stolen knowadays....
Very good, but they are not going to dig up the others. The government is not interested.
As a metaldetectorist in West-Flanders, I truly see the remains of the horror that took place. The amount of lead shrapnell balls I dig up when making videos is absurd. I save em in a big jar as decoration.
What a wonderful program. If we could just figure out a way to let the warmongering politicians go 'over the top' in the first wave, we'd have a lot less war.
I think we have a duty to find the fallen. To give them back their identities and a grave. It just seems right to do this for all of them.
WHAT WAS THE TIME ON THE WATCH ?
RIP 🙏
Why, why why were they not allowed to dig until they found all the soldiers?
Money.
For king. AND. Country !!! Wars are srarted by adultos. AND the young die.
Lest we forget
it would be nice to have an up date on this with the huge database of DNA now available in 2023
They should put a team of men and women onto preserving all that paper work on to new files
Cheers Nate and thanks from the British empire and USA
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I’m ambivalent about all this todo. Let the poor souls rest where they’ve lain since that fateful day. They know no different and surviving families never knew them. I don’t care where you live or what continent you reside upon, you’re walking over some person’s grave every day. The countless billions cover the face of the earth.
And by the way, I had a great uncle that served with the A.E.F. Came home and drank himself to death by 1932.
All that ineptitude the high ranking officers murdered hundreds of thousands of me and kept their rank and knighthoods.
Every single officer should be named and stripped of their titles, their families should also be stripped of tjose titles. Zero excuse for theor actions. Why should they be looked on in any light when their deeds show far darker self serving policies
I am sure that Nancy and Robert will be together beyond all pain and suffering, in that place of eternal bliss, with our Blessed Lord Jesus and all the others who formed part of their life on this Earth. RIP brave brothers in Christ.
I had no idea the Germans buried the dead l thought they lay were they fell. Especially as the loss of life was so devastating. I hope we did the same for the German losses. I remember being amazed that my father spoke German. When asked how he knew German I was told in the War. Dad was in the RAF as a engineer. He once said the German people were suffering so badly as the war started to end. Something we never consider when looking and talking about the war. He said they were just families doing what they were told. The same as us.
Amazing documentary. God bless these young men.