The Battle Where Men Drowned in Mud - The Battle of Passchendaele, WW1
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- Researching this definitely took a toll on my mental health. As hard as I try to imagine what it was like, it's impossible to grasp even a fraction of a percentage of what these men went through. I also wish I had more quotes from the German side. Unfortunately, they were far and few between.
Sources:
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War Peter Hart, 2013
The To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, Adam Hoschild, 2012
The Ironclads of Cambrai, Byran Cooper, 2010
They Called it Passchendaele: They Called It Passchendaele: The Story Of The Third Battle Of Ypres And Of The Men Who Fought, Lyn McDonald, 1993
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My great great grandfather a Canadian fought and died during the battle of passchendaele , he died faced down in a shell crater , we have his boots because that was the only thing his buds could grab , they still have dried up mud on them it’s really eerie looking at them
The war not only affected the men fighting, but those they left behind. My grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in June, 1915. She never knew her real father. He left for war in October, 1914 and the last he was heard from was just before Christmas 1914. She still had his last letter and a photograph her mother saved and passed down to my mother.
I think there is good evidence to connect the wholesale slaughter of WWI with the radical increase in violent crimes committed in the 1920s-30s. This sense of the cheapness of life is extremely contagious and pervades itself so deeply within a society that you don't have to be a war veteran to experience it's effects. When people are shooting at you with machine guns it doesn't make a difference if it's in a real war or a gang war, the lesson is still the same, it's kill or be killed.
Glory to patriotism flags ( sarcasm detected ) you know why they never grow old because they are dead... get it they are dead... like couldn't get older because they are dead senselessly in wars.. hmmmm..
generational damage through war is, aside from the human cost obviously, the worse aspect of major wars . I recently read that the Soviet Union lost around 50 million people based on the fact that nearly all the men died who could start families and that's just one country
God almighty may we overcome the mountains of war that block our way to everlasting peace
as a older Canadian, we were taught much about Passchendaele, it was impressed upon us how much of a horror show it truly was. My family is personally connected to this place, with my great grandfather having served with the 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles in Passchendaele and surviving.
The Canadian casualties would have been much worse but for the quality of their commander Sir Arthur Currie.
Dude this is one of the best representations of history I have heard here on RUclips… keep up the good workkkk!!!!
World War 1 is really underrated when it comes to the horrors of war. Lest we forget
In all my years I've never heard anyone say it was underated 💣💥☠
Air Burst Shells, Gas, Flechette's dropped from planes. It was called The War To End All Wars for a reason..
Actually I'm pretty sure WW1 is discussed as the poster child for the horrors of War since it was the first time modern weaponry like machine guns, deadly gas, airplanes, tanks, immense trench warfare, etc was implemented on such a huge scale and the leaders still used outdated tactics like mass bayonet charges into machine gun fire....
@@jhtsurvival exactly, it was pre-geneva convention, there were (largely) no rules.. Everyone had brand new weapons and were excited to use them. It was a fucking meat grinder.
Most millenials don't even know when the war was
My Grandfather on my father's side was a medic in ww1.....I never met him. He died before I was born. But I do know that durring WW2 he worked at the VA in Altanta....later he would suffer terribly from depression and my father told me he was hancuffed to a bed. I am sure the memories of WW1 and later seeing the mangled bodies at the VA brought him down........
My Grandfather served on that hell hole, he somehow survived the ordeal. I remember him as a very quiet man, not the brash, party goer he apparently was. My late mother helped care for him in his latter days. He suffered dreadful nightmares and would wake up screaming and struggling, he ended up on strong drugs which left him almost helpless.
I have his war records and a few medals.
Like most of the young men (Germans also.) He was expected to slot back into normal life. I vaguely remember him sat in his chair shaking, with glassy eyes just staring at nothing. No-one survived that horror, absolutely no-one.
The only things I know about my Grandfather's service in France was that he was at Passchendaele, and was at some point in the battle invalided out because of trench foot. He never talked about his experiences to my mother, and as far as she knows, not to my grandmother.
I do know that after the war, he never went to ex-servicemen's clubs, so it seems he didn't want to talk with people who had shared similar experiences either. It's possible that some of that was survivor's guilt (had he been born a few years earlier, it's quite likely he would have been in the Accrington Pals along with young men he would have known who were a few years older), but I imagine that a lot of it was down to things he'd experienced which he didn't want to relive.
@davewilson4493 Thanks for sharing. I was about twelve when my Grandfather died, much the same as yours, he never said anything, my late mother told me he never ever mentioned it. We're from Liverpool by the way.
For those that don't know, Lancashire was decimated due to the pals, thousands upon thousands were killed or sent home barely able to function.
My Grandfather only joined up because he had three sisters and, like everyone else, thought it would be a big adventure and they'd be back for Christmas. God knows what horrors they saw, and all because some bloke got shot!
@@philipmason3218 My Grandfather lived in Burnley, but presumably due to changes after the carnage of the Pals regiments, ended up in the Sherwood Foresters. I believe he became a gunnery instructor, but I don't know if that would involve artillery or small arms.
I was pretty much the same age when he died, too young to begin to understand what he might have been through.
Though I would be interested to know some of what he did, I'm glad I wasn't old enough to have been curious enough to ask him.
88 percent of all British and Dominion forces survived WW1.
The sound of the artillery is mind blowing! Imagine beng there for days, knowing that you can die at any moment!
Even really loud lightning startles me, I couldn’t even imagine what an artillery barrage would be like
Not to mention the ground shaking from the shelling.
You could die at any moment any time anywhere. Doesn't matter if you're in a war or taking a shit at home
Weeks mate weeks !
Awesome video dude! No one makes them like you do! Keep it up bro!
Appreciate you✊
Gears of History, very interesting video about Passchendaele. Thank you for providing a very engaging experience, you helped me truly visualize and personify the horrors of this conflict. Simply receiving a taste imagining it, it is so powerfully clear to me how much I would never want to be a part of it. Your storytelling is unique. Thank you for giving me somebody else to pray for.
A relative was given a Military Medal for his actions at Polygon Wood. A stretcher bearer, he stayed behind from his relieved unit to continue going out into the shellfire amid the shattered timber and mud to bring in his wounded mates. His daughter said that the only thing he ever spoke of about his experiences was the tiredness and the all-encompassing mud. "You would be so tired and exhausted that you would have to sit down on a bloating corpse. The only thing sticking out of the mud!"
He must’ve saved many lives!
God bless the Canadian lads they put in a lot of work over there.
Well made, good thoughts.
The sound bite is absolutely terrifying, wow
There's a film clip that really shows this struggle with the mud that they went through. A French solider was stuck thigh deep in a muddy shell hole struggling to free himself and gesturing to fellow soldiers for help but they kept advancing past him. I don't recall what YT documentary it was.
If you ever find it, send it my way！
I think Dan Carlin told a story of that nature in Blueprint for Armageddon.
@@POVHistory1 pp
It also showed in a documentary from the history channel on world war one it is a French soldier stuck in the mud as his comrades go by he has dropped his gear in order to try and get out of the mud. It was shown to represent the hellish conditions during the Battle of Verdun. Also I think in the history channel documentary it is showing also that a a couple of comrades do help the soldier out. I think you can still find that scene Ina video by the great war channel here on RUclips. Hope this helps you find it.
It wasn't always mud, and it wasn't always in dead man's land. Being stuck in the trench for months meant... disposing of your shat. First it was carried out, then thrown, then it started leaking back in. Eventually they pooped in their haversacks. Then into their hands. When dysentery struck, it would just flow out. Before long the trench filled and it was either drown in it, or take a bullet.
Why would you s#!t in your own hands? The rest I can believe but not the hands lol
@@thainehellewell2850 *fling* Take that!
Meanwhile you had lice in your clothes biting away at you and Trench foot from wet feet sunk in mud for weeks
No British or Dominion stayed in the front line trenches for more than 8 days unless there was an attack expected
The rotation of troops helped the men to cope. The use of proper laterines was strictly adhered to and trenches were not used.
Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight
(Under Lord Derby's Scheme). I died in Hell--
(They called it Passchendaele). My wound was slight,
And I was hobbling back, and then a shell
Burst slick upon the duck-boards: so I fell
Into the bottomless mud, and lost the light.
At sermon-time, while Squire is in his pew,
He gives my gilded name a thoughtful stare:
For, though low down upon the list, I'm there;
'In proud and glorious memory'....that's my due.
Two bleeding years I fought in France, for Squire:
I suffered anguish that he's never guessed.
Once I came home on leave: and then went west....
What greater glory could a man desire?
MEMORIAL TABLET, by Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC (1886-1967).
Captain, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he was nicknamed "Mad Jack" Sassoon for suicidal acts of courage in trench warfare, earned the Military Cross, and almost the Victoria Cross. In 1916 whie recuperating from fever in England, he became fiercely and vocally anti-war. But instead of court-martialing a war hero, the War Ministry sent him to a military psychiatric hospital, ostensibly to recover from "shell shock." After release as "cured," he was posted to out-of-the-way assignments in Ireland and Egypt, where he finished out the war. He is known as an important 20th century British poet and author. "Went west" = "died," in British slang of the early 1900s and wartime. The poem's "memorial tablet" should be imagined as marble tablet, with carved and gilded letters, on an inside wall of a church in a rural community dominated by the land-owning "Squire." Among other perks of being the local gentry, he and his family would have had a prominent church pew that was reserved for them alone. One still sees such memorials in churches and cathedrals up and down England, along with tablets honoring individual men, placed by their survivors. In a parish church in Staffordshire close to my family's ancestral village, one such tablet was posted by a wife for her fallen husband, an NCO, with a line from Chaucer's medieval poetry "The Canterbury Tales": "He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght." ("He was a true, perfect, noble knight" in Modern English; the original Middle English line would then still have been familiar to most well-educated Englishmen or -women.) I found that to be very moving: and still do.
When you compare British war memorials they tend to say "the men who gave their lives". The French war memorials are always dedicated "to the children of the village", they see them not as men who went to fight, but as someone's child, that sticks in your throat the first time you see it.
A very graphic video that exposes another forgotten horror of war and the disgusting way many men really died.
The gears of history....well said.
My great grandfather enlisted with the 8th Battalion 1st AIF immediately at the start of the war and fought at Gallipoli and then the Western Front including Paschendale and most of the other big battles such as Ypres, The Somme, the Hindenberg Line and Amiens. He survived all the way through and was repatriated in 1919. His regimental number was 10 so he was very quick to enlist. He made it home without being shot but was a gas casualty though he of course survived. Not many that enlisted at the start were still there at the end in 1918.
Passchendaele and Ypres are one and the same.
Tolkiens wrote about the Dead Marshes .. about his WW1 life... Lord of the Rings, starts also with huge armies at War. (WW1)
We never learn .
If you kill a man, you're a murderer, kill many, you're a conqueror, kill them all... you're a god.
Dave Mustaine paraphrasing a quote by Jean Rostand.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million men is a statistic.
-Josef Stalin
I’m English and my great great grandfather died here. Don’t know how but he has a cross in a war cemetery in Belgium.
Even if it was generally about the trenches or not I had some idea this thing about the mud, being refered to in the folk song "General Haigue" even if it was used as part of a rude jab at those further up in the hierachy, especially with said conditions here in effect.
9:22 the scene is recreated perfectly in Battlefield 1
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. A very true quote.
And the bastards are still doing it in the safety of their high offices .
It can certainly be argued that the Western Front in World War I was THE most brutal, savage, horrifying battlefield of all time. Not only did the men have to endure the Hell described in this video, they were absolutely aware that their Generals were completely incompetent at waging this new thing that became known as "Total War." The Generals routinely started offensives in which they knew the men would die by the thousands, with the delusion that it would wear down the other side faster. Everyone knew that both their buddies and the guys in the trenches were going to die, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. My grandfather was in the 79th division of the American Expeditionary Force in France, and participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the Fall of 1918. He had horrible memories that were very difficult for him to share, even though he and the rest of the Americans missed most of the worst times in the stalemate of the trenches.
Do you have any information about that man in the last picture?
respect all these brave men.....
Hell on earth, and just to top it off, record breaking amounts of rain. That's so cruel. God has a sick sense of humor sometimes.
and the war goes on..
"Anyone who has looked into the glazed eyes of a dying Soldier will think hard before starting a War"
- Otto von Bismarck
they could heard the artillery barrages in London in ww1.
a friend of mine was born in the blitz in ww2.;
Heart-breaking accounts, this carnage is carried out on the orders of other people sitting drinking wine behind the lines, a long way behind the lines, and they say that man is the most intelligent being on earth. How ever does this sort of thing go on and still goes on in one form or another over one hundred years later. RIP to all combatants.
My uncle fought, with the Canadians, at Vimy, Passchendaele and others. He survived those battles, but not the war.
In the movie Passchendale theres a scene where a man is for weeks staying in the trenches with leg deep freezing mud with a dead comrade beside him and a rat just came out of the mouth of his dead comrade he was stunned as if he saw a zombie of his comrade alive again! You cannot pull back cause your officer will shoot you for a desserter k!
There are all these small unquantifiable things that make up the horrors of a conflict. This video only went over a fraction of those present at Passchendaele.
Interesting to know if any of these men survived and attempted communicating after the war.
Most of them survived.
6:47 so sad!!
It was not called The Battle of Passchendaele but Third Ypres. Passchendaele was 12th and last battle of that offensive.
I am here because my ancestor died in this battle, and I'm trying to learn more. I don't know how he died, only when he died and that his name is on the Menin Gate memorial.
The British French and then the Americas didn't want Germany to be apart of the industrial revolution and cut into their market for industrial products worldwide. Nor did they want Hungary and Bulgaria to be industrial nations.
Terrifying! The pure horror of it All....Did someone say "History repeats itself?" I sure hope not!
Please watch episode 6 of "The Great War Interviews" Charles Carrington. It is here on You Tube.
Ugg, why do the creators of these type of videos not take the time to ensure they do not mix footage and photos of different wars. It is not difficult to tell the difference between the uniforms and equipment.
Yeah, like the photo of a group of WWII Germans...easy to see the mistake.
Third Ypres may be the worst battle ever fought in modern times
Perhaps, but it had competition from Pozieres and other places on the Somme. I might say Stalingrad was, but I see little point in ranking horrors.
@@stringpicker5468 right. .
Ever heard of the Battle of Verdun.
Pozieres doesn’t compare with Third Ypres. Pozieres is in France Ypres in The Belgian mud and was much more murderous than Poziers and involved larger numbers of divisions.
I would not let anybody suffer on my watch.
More video content...ww1
corp samuel prior aged 22 died 15 12 1917 along with 5 others same time, reg 9th kings royal rifles
buried in the mud of passchendaele just his name is all thats left of him on the wall at tyne cott
he came from hommerton east london he was a picture framer by trade ww1 hero AMEN
I just spent the last 9 months fighting in the trenches and villages of the Donbas in Ukraine. Russian heavy artillery constantly raining down. If you ever want to chat, I'll describe exactly what it's like or you can see how the patrols went....
I'm defnitely interested, shoot me an email at ccwhite590@gmail.com
also all those who had SHELL SHOCK FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY NO NOT WHAT THEY DO AMEN
I’d be a statistic
Just a gentle constructive criticism on your presentation - your tone of voice is way too cavalier and upbeat for the content. I do apologise for the criticism, but I found it to be deeply disconcerting. May all the fallen combatants rest in peace - as you correctly point out, this was never 'their' war.
I great grand father lied about his age at enlisted at just 14 years old
My Dad fought there. With the 10th Battalion C.E.F. The very same battalion immortalized in Paul Gross's movie. Much of whats in the video was told to me by him shortly before he passed.
October 12th. New Zealands darkest day
So sad
Here's what I think of your work:
Your naration lack seriousness regarding to the severity of the conflict. At the begining for example, you describe a scene of horrors but the tone is way too randy IMO.
Keep up doing what you like though ! I'm just a random dude with it's own opinion :)
You are entitled to your opinion but I disagree. Many men in battle use humor or lightheartedness to maintain sanity. I think our narrator's tone of voice is refreshing and familiar. Not once did my mind wonder while listening)
The Canadians were well represented at pachendale as well as the British
It always feels like the Canadians carried every single battle in WW1
@@POVHistory1 lol...we had no choice...wasn't like we were close to home..had to fight till the end it seems
4000 Canadians were killed, 70,000 British. We did do some of the fighting in ww1.
@@POVHistory1 Hardly. They were however by late 1917 outstanding troops.
@@dp-sr1fd I would point out that one out of every hundred of the entire population of Australia was killed in WWI. Most of them in Flanders or the Somme. They like the New Zealanders were decimated. Battalions of about 950 came out with 300. By This time the Anzacs and Canadians were better soldiers. The official British war historian Edmonds said so. However, more to the point the efforts of the Dominion soldiers were never ever acknowledged. The final capture of Passchendaele itself was achieved by the Canadians.
This is so fukin sad
You all need a new narrator that can articulate each word properly
Thou shalt not kill.
If people would follow GOD's order
war would dry out.
It really says Thou shall not murder.
Religion is a creation of man to explain the world and adapted to control populations so, irrelevant to man's greed. Greed is the reason war is likely never to "dry out."
wars have been since the word dot yes your right but man has the choice free will , how did priests in churches at sunday service justify a son of there congrigation getting killed who he may have baptised
if we followed the bible this world would be a better place amen
God actually said he hates gays too in the old testament.
Yes it would, but we are savage vicious territorial creatures so it won't. We will have to wait until we evolve into a totally different creature.
Well, if you consider Stalin as a philosopher, there is nothing left to say.
I feel you didn’t treat the subject with enough respect. Your little one liner at the end was in particularly poor taste.
My grand uncle shell shocked at passchendaele
With the Connaught rangers