Irish Soldiers recall The Battle Of The Somme, 1989
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- One of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme, was fought seventy-three years ago. To commemorate the half a million Irishmen who fought in the First World War, the Belfast-based Farset Youth and Community Development Project organised a trip to France to honour the sacrifice of the dead. Unionist and nationalist politicians joined the war veterans on the special journey.
Report shows black and white archive footage of the trench warfare during World War One.
Somme war grave in France.
Interview with Leslie Bell, veteran of the Battle of the Somme.
Archive footage of the war.
Commemoration ceremony at Thiepval in France where a tower was erected in memory of the Irishmen who fought there.
Attendees including Reverend Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux and many veterans.
Memorial cross to the Sixteenth Irish Division at Messines in Belgium and nearby war graves.
Commemoration ceremony at Messines.
Grave of Major William Redmond (brother of Irish politician, John Redmond), Sixth Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.
Interview with Dr Ian Adamson, Chairman, Farset, on the role played by all Irishmen, North and South, in the First World War, and the role of John Redmond.
Interview with David Campbell, Farset, Somme Co-ordinator, on the role of Irishmen in the war.
War veterans looking for the graves of their friends in the war cemetery.
Interview with Leslie Bell.
Interview with Charlie McLean, a veteran from Banbridge, County Down.
Piper playing lament.
Unknown graves in the war cemetery.
The reporter is Gary Honeyford. Развлечения
Lesley Bell lived in our village he was nearly 100 when he died he was fit and well all his life up till the week he died.
Rest in peace ❤
God rest their souls.
There’s two things wrong with this comment.
The absolute greatest generation of men - we owe them so much and I for one will always be grateful until my dying breath. Unbelievable bravery
Why? They were brave but the war was pointless. It was a war for the establishment to maintain their Empire against the growing German economy. A pointless war that helped to destroy Europe.
@@22grena Very accurate, and we should never forget that the elite of the British empire sent their people as cannon fodder.
I remember Charlie McClean, 2.00 and 4.53 minutes in, still walking around Banbridge circa 1991 he would have obviously been over 100 year old by that time.
A fine figure of a man. Im sure someone must have written his story down?
@@SniffMyDeadwax There's one local historian who's main focus is on WW1 and those from the area who served in it. I'm sure he has a lot of information on Charlie's actual experience Mervyn. And yes, for his age he was a very fresh man, I frequently saw him walking into town in the morning when I was going to school, as well as at church, even as a centenarian he walked tall and upright and had a very genial manner.
Their tomorrow for our today let’s never forget that
Surely one of the unluckiest times in history to be a young man.
Or woman.... the ones who worked in munitions factories gave birth to yellow babies
You'd choose the factory over the front buddy.
@@anomalyp8584 for sure but not like women had it easy, some lost not only husbands but sons too, ww1 was a disgusting waste of human life, people like to whinge about this and that but compared too 1900-1950 we are living in paradise compared too what some of these men and women had too endure, shame that alot of young people take what they have today for granted
@@BodybuildingSteve Wasn't really a pick-nick for anyone back then no.
You would stil pick the factory over the front.
@@anomalyp8584 I know I did agree with you :)
Thank you. We Will Remember Them
Never forget these great men , i hope they are in a better place now
yeah, keep voting in ppl that have no connection to this.
God bless bless their sweet souls in Jesus christ our lord amen 🙏 ❤
thanks for the incredible footage.
God bless them all
Hey man can I just say thanks for putting up videos like this. You're channel is great.
The best men Ulster has ever produced🇬🇧✋🏻🇬🇧 Absoult hero's and will always be in our memories for their ultimate sacrifice
Ireland
Whet abeeeet yeee,
@@joegrayofhesselink89 If ye haven't noticed they were all Northern Irish/British
@@ulsterinfidel9897 more of them were from the Republic of Ireland. That includes Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan which you probably don’t even know are in Ulster. Billy boy.
Lambs to the slaughter
"It was all for nothing". What a tragedy.
Our spoilt generation don't know we're living what these men and the men who fought in the war of independence went through was pure hell all fought for what they believed in all equally heroic.
Then they had to content with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and shortly after the Great Depression.
Now we hide from a virus so dangerous we have to test to find it, these guys would be ashamed of us
@@henrysevern i think a lot of them faced being ostracized when they got home cos the 1916 rising had happened too during WW1.
@@peteandurnot the 1916 Easter uprising was regarded as an act of treason by some in the English Irish Catholic community. Also if they weren’t, after the First World War they were after the Second, as Irish neutrality had lead to British ships being sunk. Especially with the London Irish that lived and worked in the docklands area of London. Many of these were descendants of those that fled the various Irish famines and the problems of the previous century.
550 people were killed on the Irish Republican side during the Conflict of 1920’s, plus under 10 in the Easter uprising compared with 35,000 Irishmen who died during the First World War. So you are saying those 35,000 who died were traitors?
Glad I got to see this, Irish soldiers won the Great War and defeated tyranny, many of them returned home to fight for their own rights, and gave birth to many modern freedom movements. But imagine leaving the trenches going home to face hostility and on occasions murder and shame in the years that followed. Remembrance parades were physically attacked in 1919 and the 20s and abandoned for decades after.
And by the IRA in the 1980s on remembrance day itself, oh how brave were they you fucking hippocrite.
What tyranny? One of the vets in this says it was all for nothing. Died for nothing he says. They died because of them squabbling parasites of cousins couldn't settle their differences one on one instead they sent millions in their stead.
dvrn86 This is what I thought. Think the gentleman was getting confused with the first and Second World War. The first world war really was pointless and avoidable. The Second World War had to happen for the greater good of the world
That kinda discredits everybody else's contribution
1st of July 1916 20 British divisions stood ready.60 thousand became battle casualties in just the 1st day .Twenty thousand dead and the rest missing and wounded.
How much was it when it was said and done at Somme? Over 500,000 no? For up to 5km?
@@lordfogg9728 against the greatest land army the world had seen and we killed a lot of them
@@Dom-ny7vh Why the tone of triumphalism in your comment? There's no glamour in war, nor is there any glory. Just a horrible tragedy for all sides!
God Bless you Sir
57 years old and going over the top with his men, that's a damn Irishman for ye...Willie Redmond...RIP+++ The Brits are very slow in acknowledging us, and credit is ever scarcer.
Why would Brits not acknowledge the Irish contribution ? Every British soldier was a hero and you’d find it hard to find anybody who would suggest the Irish were somehow not.
Wrong, sling your hook with your bs agenda.
Thank you for this reminder.
What a terrible sacrifice, we must never forget that brave, valiant, generation. They willingly gave all they had.
God Rest All Their Souls. I'm so grateful that we live in a Free Country, because of the immense bravery and the noble sacrifices that they made, so we could be Free. Thank You for your service
I don’t usually have a problem with dialects and accents I sometimes speak using broad Black Country English which can be hard to follow, but this gentleman is hard for me to understand.
Does he sound like he has a broad accent to Irish viewers?
Subtitles would be helpful here for those of us who speak 'Murrican
Lest we forget 🇬🇧
Wrong flag there fella, these are Irish heroes 🇮🇪
God rest them all
What does he mean by " if we had redmonds men that day instead of Carson's , we'd have taken ......... "
I had a great uncle die in France WW1 - not at the somme though.
Thank s my heroes
true heroes who fought in that war and ww2
veterans of any war and the ones that died in battle are heroes as well
0:42 on the right, this soldier was shot and killed as soon as he put his head over the trench? :(
Or it's filmed after to show what the battle was like.
Very interesting. Captions don't quite understand the Irish accent.
Subtitles please - with all due respect
Only two brigades achieved their objectives on that day one is remembered and one is not and both from the same island
Fuck war!!!!
Why did we slaughter each other?
Today historically more or less rehabilitated in memory: nationalist and Sinn Fein representation at commemorations.
To Hell with all wars and conflict, what good re wars, bad government and crazy leaders tell their people to go and fight wars that they help to make, thousands and millions of people looser their precious lives, the people who survive suffer from great loss and deep regret for the remainder of the lives, Homes and countries are smashed. As one of the youngest person to join the Irish army at 13 years old ( I tricked my into the army, I left after coming to realise what I still believe) I fully agree with this old solder man, war is useless, most times it for nothing, it is very rare that good war is fought. Do not get me wrong, I do believe in a just war, a war where you have to defect your family, your people and your own country
7.30 assult begins, the 1st inskillings advance to the wire as if on parade, most men get hung on the wire thou a large swaithe break threw and push threw enemy trenches, by 10.20am it was clear the attack failed, the 36th ulster division had been slaughterd down and where ineffective bar a few dotted break threws, the men of the 88th (of which the 1st inskillings were banded) were mention in dispatches considering the 1st inskillings had been cut to rippons at gallipolli with the anzacs the months before hand it proves they where the unspoken heroes of ulster
The British arrived very late to Ireland unless you want to call them Normans. They became more Irish than the Irish :)
No more brother wars
I can't understand a word hes saying
A lot of folk not from Ireland, or even the North for that matter, have a similar problem lol.
Undertitles would have been helpfull.
U must be a Yank 😂😂😂😂
"Minnymore"?
Several millions.
English subtitles would be helpful.
I have no problem understanding any English spoken with an Ulster accent and I have never been on the island of Ireland.
The subtitles don’t help much they can’t follow what he’s saying either.
@@henrysevern I don’t most of the time but his accent/dialect does sound broad.
@@henrysevern I'm an American with a standard Midwest accent.
I personally had a difficult time with a few sentences.
@@nigeh5326 I think his story is like this:
His group was the third wave, to go over the top. The first two weren't successful.
He ran 50 yards forward, and was injured by artillery. He had to wait a few hours, before being taken back on a stretcher.
It falls on us all to ensure we never see those ugly war times ever again. Let us start with the ex public school boys turned populist politicians whose kids would never go to war.
Fought the wrong enemy.
The fact remains though that while some Irishmen choose to fight bravely, most of them decided to hide behind the neutrality banner rather than fight in WW2
Wrong! 70,000 citizens of Ireland served in the British armed forces during World War 2, together with another 50,000 from the North. You're thinking of Spain, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland, mate.
@@kitsilanomusician2669 I’d like to know where you’re getting those statistics from. It’s a known fact the Irish government sent letters of condolence after hitler died, and the IRA worked hand in hand with the nazis providing information on possible landing sites for a sea borne nazi assault on both Ireland and the United Kingdom.
@@kitsilanomusician2669 Ireland remain anti Semitic to this very day.
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@@pm3577
I know prejudices are hard to alter, but let's start here shall we?>
> www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20350818.html
Also it's a well known fact that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were Nazi sympathisers. The Windsor's’ Nazi-supporting German relatives also proved a fly in the ointment, with Charlie Coburg, Queen Victoria’s grandson, first cousin to King George V and confidant to the Duke of Windsor being employed by the Fuhrer as a go-between for the German government to exploit the Royal Family’s pro-German leanings.
Makes sense that Harry wore that Nazii uniform then, doesn't it?
@@pm3577 A few pro-Palestine shoppers counts as The Island of Ireland now, does it?
You need to troll a bit harder there mate. I could easily bring up English pro-Palestine footage to counter that one. Troll.
All the generals should be postumously tried as war criminals.
It’s all gone it’s history give yourself a break and stop torturing not only yourself but everyone else too
Lest we forget
@@edcarson3113 as soon as we all forget the better then we can have a time of healing with types like you the wound is an open running sore totally amazing to think that you actually think you are or could or can be in some way right or correct because your attitudes and ideas border upon lunacy
Things like these can't be forgotten because then shit like the first world would repeat it itself
And it did
Plus many of those men who fought ended up having PTSD so they cannot forget the horrors
They can't just move on
@@lordferbus2970 what I mean is they should stop celebrating it and rubbing the still raw wounds the military is the cause of all its own uses and problems it’s very existence causes its usage as for ptsd they should never have been sent to do all those unnatural things in the first place
War is unnatural to kill is unnatural no wonder the soldiers suffer they have been induced to do something totally against their human natures