Moving Final Tributes From The Battle of the Somme | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @paulroberts6687
    @paulroberts6687 2 года назад +21

    "Far from the home of his childhood, sleeping his last long goodbye".
    "My only son."
    "My boy."
    I admit I cried.

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 11 месяцев назад +6

    We must never forget their sacrifice! RIP to all who died or were injured.

  • @coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13
    @coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 3 года назад +32

    Heartbreaking. It's so easy to look at the casualties as just numbers, but they were people. Husbands, brothers, sons, fathers....

    • @ShaunWilliams-i3o
      @ShaunWilliams-i3o 11 месяцев назад +3

      I'm here visiting my dads great grandfathers grave. He and his 4 brothers all sent to their deaths and 2 of them had pregnant wives and never even got to hold their first born. That's unthinkable

  • @Иосиф-ч7э
    @Иосиф-ч7э Год назад +7

    Thank you CWGC. This kind of films lets us remember that war is fought by persons and each one of them is a story.

  • @andreaburton576
    @andreaburton576 3 года назад +17

    THIS MADE ME CRY SO MANY MEN DEID AND I THINK TO MY MYSELF WHY THEY NEVER GOT TO LIVE THERE LIVES AND WE JUST TAKE OUR LIVES FOR GRANTED SO REST IN PEACE YOU DID GOOD GOD BLESS YOU ONE AND ALL WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

    • @chrismaskell5702
      @chrismaskell5702 3 года назад +2

      WE Will Remember them, 🌹🌹🌹🙂🌹🏳️

  • @idleonlooker1078
    @idleonlooker1078 4 года назад +23

    Though WWI ended 102years ago, you can still feel through these simple, but powerful, epitaphs the family's sorrow and pain - undiminished - to the present day. Lest we forget!! 😔

  • @FCBanes
    @FCBanes 4 года назад +19

    What an amazing combination of sad, poignant & uplifting epitaphs these are. Bravo to the CWGC for this video tribute. We will remember them.

  • @stuartauld3193
    @stuartauld3193 4 года назад +19

    Never ever forget what they went through.

  • @shondra6
    @shondra6 5 лет назад +37

    This brings tears. So many young people lost to us. My beautiful grand uncle signed up at age 19 so his older brother Alf said if my brother goes so do I . Alf returned , his baby brother was lost at broodsiende 4th October 1917. . No known grave , presumed killed. Lest we forget . 🙏

    • @idleonlooker1078
      @idleonlooker1078 4 года назад +7

      He, like all the other's now sleep in peace, bathed in God's light and love. Lest we forget. 😔

  • @DAH55100
    @DAH55100 3 года назад +7

    These family tributes do so much to connect us to the deeper meaning of sacrifice and loss. The gulf of time disappears as you feel and identify with the pain of their loved ones.

  • @CarlAshcroft-mb9pp
    @CarlAshcroft-mb9pp 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you.❤
    I'm so glad you can't see what our politicians have done to the counrty you fought for so valliantly.
    You sacrifice will be remembered forever. Rest in peace brave ones.🇬🇧

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 4 года назад +21

    Truly Heartbreaking stuff! You feel the sadness of their loved ones losses!😟😢😔🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦

    • @chrismaskell5702
      @chrismaskell5702 3 года назад +5

      Me too I feel sad now makes me feel saddest inside it just wants to make me cry who for all those brave soldiers who fought and died for our freedom

  • @kylehutchinson2729
    @kylehutchinson2729 6 лет назад +19

    Lest we forget, they will always be remembered for years to come

  • @johnpage4581
    @johnpage4581 6 месяцев назад +1

    If that didnt bring a tear to your eye then nothing will.RIP to all to all those brave souls.

  • @philipnorris6542
    @philipnorris6542 8 месяцев назад +2

    At the going down of the Sun and in the morning we will remember them.

  • @colfer222
    @colfer222 2 года назад +4

    Anyone else struck by how handsome they all were?...r.i.p.

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 4 года назад +13

    Marvellous memories of fallen Soldiers eternally remembered by their loved ones!😟😢😔💂🤠🇬🇧🇦🇺

  • @RomanOf2002
    @RomanOf2002 Год назад +1

    Good honest young men who lost their lives against brother nations. May we never fight each other again. How the world needed them..

  • @molecatcher3383
    @molecatcher3383 3 года назад +4

    At least the pain of the families, who had those moving comments written for their lost loved ones, is over. After more than 100 years, they are now all re-united.

  • @edwardpate6128
    @edwardpate6128 Месяц назад +1

    So easy to see why this was referred to as the "Lost Generation". How sad and tragic that just over 20 years later another world war would ravage the same battlefields.

  • @kellyhill430
    @kellyhill430 3 года назад +2

    So much optimism and hope in their eyes...only to have that hope and optimism dashed in an instant and their whole future taken away. Its heartbreaking

  • @james8156
    @james8156 Год назад +1

    God Bless these brave men🙏🏻❤️

  • @burkey548
    @burkey548 4 года назад +7

    THIS IS SO BRILLIANT XXXXXX

  • @lex1945
    @lex1945 Год назад +3

    We will remember them...

  • @jamesbrook16
    @jamesbrook16 2 месяца назад +1

    We read many of the inscriptions on the headstones. Many are very poignant. All sad, some uplifting.

  • @chrismaskell5702
    @chrismaskell5702 2 года назад +2

    Rest in peace to all those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom they shall not grow old as we are left grow old age not weary them nor years condemn at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them Lest we forget 🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @jayjeetkataria8387
    @jayjeetkataria8387 6 лет назад +9

    rest in peace

  • @Andys-wanderings
    @Andys-wanderings 3 года назад +10

    Wouldn't it be interesting that when people deem someone's work worthy of a 'thumbs down' that they should have to explain in 140 characters why they have chosen to do this? Because I would like to try and understand them. At the moment I struggle to do this.

  • @jammyscouser2583
    @jammyscouser2583 11 месяцев назад +1

    There's an ozzie grave at Walkers ridge cemetery in Gallipoli - "His last words were 'Goodbye cobber, God bless you'"

  • @karlnijhof9386
    @karlnijhof9386 6 лет назад +6

    R.I.P mijn helden .
    GOD is nu uw lijder

  • @zacjames3572
    @zacjames3572 Год назад +1

    "Have you news of my boy Jack?”
    Not this tide.
    "When d'you think that he'll come back?"
    Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
    "Has any one else had word of him?"
    Not this tide.
    For what is sunk will hardly swim,
    Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
    "Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?"
    None this tide,
    Nor any tide,
    Except he did not shame his kind-
    Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
    Then hold your head up all the more,
    This tide,
    And every tide;
    Because he was the son you bore,
    And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!”

  • @Dave9thesnob
    @Dave9thesnob 2 года назад +6

    W.E Dailey age 16 killed on Somme your whole life was ahead of you

  • @wearsideexile6616
    @wearsideexile6616 3 года назад +3

    Heartbreaking

  • @edwardpate6128
    @edwardpate6128 Месяц назад +1

    Someday we shall understand. Well sadly it is over 100 years later and we still don't.

  • @Dave9thesnob
    @Dave9thesnob 6 лет назад +3

    I couldn't agree more.

  • @polydueres
    @polydueres Год назад

    Thank you....

  • @edmcconnell2105
    @edmcconnell2105 7 месяцев назад

    They are always missed by those that love FREEDOM ❗

  • @SageHarrison-p8i
    @SageHarrison-p8i Год назад

    Anyone else struck by how handsome they all were?...r.i.p.. R.I.P mijn helden .GOD is nu uw lijder.

  • @MrBernt1968
    @MrBernt1968 3 года назад +1

    Heartbreaking 😪

  • @camperp195
    @camperp195 Год назад +1

    I really have no words watching this,im struggling to type,god rest them all 😔

  • @bonnieshelswell4203
    @bonnieshelswell4203 2 года назад +1

    😢❤️sad so many !

  • @Connect_with_Yourself
    @Connect_with_Yourself 4 года назад +6

    😭😭😭😭

  • @H4CK61
    @H4CK61 Год назад +1

    Did he die in vain.. That Broke my heart reading that.

  • @charleslommens173
    @charleslommens173 5 лет назад +6

    Can anyone name this piece of music? Thank you.

  • @Mutrino
    @Mutrino 7 лет назад +23

    What a waste of life. It makes me sick thinking about it. How many Albert Einsteins or Isaac Newtons did we miss out on because of this senseless slaughter.

    • @Dave9thesnob
      @Dave9thesnob 5 лет назад +2

      @Catherine Heridis This statement is pure ignorance Albert Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb . Beside did you want Nazi Germany to develop the atomic bomb.

    • @ms-terious
      @ms-terious 4 года назад

      @Ekaterina The Greek so mass energy equivalence, an equation that provides the key to understanding the most basic natural processes of the universe, an understanding in which we take advantage of today via technology like PET scanners, radiocarbon dating.....SMOKE DETECTORS, the basis of the study of kinematics, is proof that Einstein is 'evil' because it also gave use a greater understanding of how things go 'boom'?
      So the fact that it was first published in 1905 has no bearing on your ascertain? Or the fact that otto hahn actually discovered nuclear fission in 1938 or that the manhattan project started in 1941 and Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb was more instrumental in its creation than Einstein?
      You're a fucking moron.

    • @jamesbrook16
      @jamesbrook16 2 месяца назад

      Meanwhile Hitler survived the First World War…

  • @DBshoes2164
    @DBshoes2164 3 года назад

    Does anyone know what this music is?

  • @davesap
    @davesap 3 года назад

    the music is senility by mel croucher

  • @shahsojib9595
    @shahsojib9595 Год назад

    He who died in the battle will not come again .

  • @anthonyeaton5153
    @anthonyeaton5153 2 года назад +3

    Michael Lewis the last sentence of you comment is stating the ‘Bleeding obvious’ Is your point another whinge. By the way Britain provided the most troops and suffered the most casualties both by % of population and % of troops in combat. Not The Aussies, not the Kiwis or the Canadians.

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 3 года назад +9

    Such a waste of life

    • @Thirdfish
      @Thirdfish 2 года назад

      The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
      Pro patria mori.

  • @lew832
    @lew832 3 года назад +1

    A disgraceful waste of young men's lives. If it had not been for our allies help, Britain would have lost WW1 and 2.

  • @elisabethhubert300
    @elisabethhubert300 11 месяцев назад

    Never again !

  • @Purrytat49
    @Purrytat49 Год назад +1

    What a waste, a tragedy for both sides. I believe in a justified war but this war was senseless

  • @jimmorgan5612
    @jimmorgan5612 9 месяцев назад

    For what?