Griffin Bertrand you should ask your parents if he ever talked about it. my grandfather was also a veteran, but never spoke to me about what he saw, just to my dad. his stories deserve to be remembered and I’m sure it would be an interesting and personal thing to you and your future family
Yeah I kind of know some stuff about him I bet me and you grandfather's wore great men he also got a Purple Heart from a bomb but he survive god bless his soil
Dad served in WW II, Air Force, He said, those who spoke little of it, likely saw more of the War,, The Front !! watching this , I realize more, ........... 5 minutes to go boys !!!! wow.
My great uncle was a stretcher bearer from 1916 to 1918. I think the same thing. He was invalided to England twice. I think I know why. Terrible. Love from Australia
my great-grandfather was there. 1915 onwards. he was to remain in the army until 1920. he and his 7 brothers all served, all made it home, they were a hard bunch, from Lenton, in Nottingham. the next door neighbour back home had her only son lost. my great, great grandmother always said she'd have sacrificed half her sons for her neighbours only son to return.
@@OP-1000 it's a weird instinct. I think those men would gladly lay their lives so the ma could have her one son back, ya know what I'm saying? It's a way to show great respect.
Notice at the very end of this video. The men are helping a wounded man. It must have been a mortal wound because you can see a man reach down and just hold his hand. He probably realised there was nothing he could do but offer his caring hand. Just heartbreaking.
yes, i've seen the same footage. and as she says that and you watch them you can actually see the lads checking the markings on the bottom of the shells as they pass them on. the bottom of those shells had markings stamped on them.
very sad, i pressed like because its a very well put together video and everyone should see it although im appalled by the amount of mens death RIP to all those who died their sacrifices should never be forgotten
It's impossible to imagine the fear those young men must have felt going off into battle in a foreign land, leaving their family and friends behind, not actually knowing if they would ever return home...it must have been gut wrenching for them! To each and everyone who marched into histories fields of battle, to those who perished, upon those mud soaked meadows, and those who returned home, I salute every last one of you...God bless you all.❤️🙏
Most of them probably felt happy, a jolly ol' war in europe and kicking them huns to where they belong and all that glory. That was until the dreadful truth of modern warfare came to them. They had the "War is a grand adventure" mentality, expecting things to go like how it did during the boer war.
Its one thing to read about a battle. To see the maps and the photos and to understand what happened. It is something completely different to hear the voices of the men who were there.
My grandfather was in WW1 he told me a few stories before he passed. Poor man went through hell and never complained or said a word about it. He was in WW1, my dad was in Korea. My brother was in Afghanistan, I was in Somalia. My son is a Marine. All males in my family joined the service. I guess that's just how we were raised.
My great grandpa, who I had the privilege to know was 15. He said old men in offices made decisions for young men on the front, and the old men did not care. I have seen those trenches. It must have been hell.
My English Grandfather ( that I never knew) was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He made.it back home but eventually died of his wounds. Lions lead by sheep.
My great grandfather was there he said that there was not a man except him and 2 soilders he also fought at mons he survived the war and also fought the second world war
I just about lost it entirely at the end when that one soldiers arm comes into frame to hold the hand of that soldier who is likely in his last moments alive. Despite the carnage going on around them humanity shines through.
Always amazing to look into the eyes of someone from the past. To wonder what happened after the footage. Did they survive, what was their life like? To catch that moment in time , so long ago. Fascinating
My great grandfather would likely have fought here, as a part of the Grimsby Chums, volunteers under the call of Lord Kitchener, that eventually got amalgamated into the Lincolnshire 10th BN Regiment. He was shot in the head but survived. I unfortunately know incredibly little about him, but he lived a normal enough life after the war as far as I know. The horrors these men must have seen. Their bravery shall forever be commended. A side note: A "blighty" is how the soldiers referred to a non-fatal wound, that while debilitating in some form, is not immediately life-threatening, and would get them out of the battlefield and hospitalized for a while. The soldiers often joked about receiving blighties, and in the worst scenarios of combat, often hoped to receive one.
Its remarkable anyone survived really, my grandfather was on the eastern front of the second war and you look at the state of those citys and battlefeilds and its a miricle not everyone died simply from flying pieces of scrap metal and falling bricks
"Get to blightey?"... Translation -- a blightey (little blight) has the same connotation as "million dollar wound." A wound serious enough to get you discharged from your military duty but doesnt permanently maim you or disable you. So the person is really asking, "Will this wound of mine get me out of this hell."
How did the nurses and doctors handle all the wounded and dieing, and keep sane throughout it all? I hope one day to see a video regarding their experiences regarding this war.
My great uncle fought in ww1 he got gassed chemical burns but he survived. He told me I was a little boy he said it was abad nightmare all the shells going off all the time in what he called a place no man's land
I never knew my grandfather.. He was in the Argyll's, he died in 1939, broken and disheartened! What they suffered was malignant! Generals ?? Butchers !
The average age of British soldiers on the Somme was 27. Those buried in Hawthorn Cemetery over 30. Look at the faces. Some are you the majority are north.
The last scene for want of a better word of the soldier reaching out his hand ? To me sums it all up, he's afraid he's done his duty and for what ? He doesn't want to die in the mud if he reaches out the reassurance of another persons touch telling him he's going to be OK might be the thing that allows him to live . Remember them .
I Lost hope in humanity , humans never learn from the past, we have been having wars and massacres since the beginning, the only change is that today civilians die more than those in combat, ww 1 ,ww 2, Vietnam, gulf war, Rwanda massacres, the list is endless
The battle of the Somme was not supposed to end the war. It was supposed to reduce the German attack on Verdun. The French were barely hanging onto Verdun.
Anyone interested in the 1st World War should read "A fortunate life" by Albert Facey. A first hand account of Gallipoli. Terrifying and touching reading.
And some arse holes are desecrating these mens memorials in the name of progress (some lives matter) . It's disgusting. Get out and fight these fascist bastards before it's too late and they've undone everything that those brave young men of many nations fought and died for. We owe them our lives and freedoms. And I salute everyone of them.
If was there for me I would say Fuck this for a game of Soldiers when going forward I would be doing an MJ moonwalk backward. Brave men all of them on both sides.
And people sign up to be in the army. You must be nuts, lots of these men after the war were left in looney bins because they had shell shock, you must be crazy to want to be a part of this
Absolute nonsense. Lions led by lions is more apt. Unless you consider Winston Churchill a donkey. Or general haig, the man who practically got the tanks going.
All these statements that people make about bravery. I don't think the warriors of those conflicts felt brave. As a matter of fact, I suspect that most soldiers hated even thinking about those wars because of how horribly afraid they always were. We call them brave because we haven't learned that war makes people into warriors that are rightfully intense scared all the time.
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My blood runs cold when I try to imagine what the lads went through and saw. I will forever respect all of them and admire their courage greatly.
I often imagine just hell on earth, and even then I’m sure that doesn’t even come close to how terrible it must have been
Yeah my grandfather was ww2 and if he was still alive I bet that he went thru a lot of hard times
Griffin Bertrand you should ask your parents if he ever talked about it. my grandfather was also a veteran, but never spoke to me about what he saw, just to my dad. his stories deserve to be remembered and I’m sure it would be an interesting and personal thing to you and your future family
Yeah I kind of know some stuff about him I bet me and you grandfather's wore great men he also got a Purple Heart from a bomb but he survive god bless his soil
Dad served in WW II, Air Force, He said, those who spoke little of it, likely saw more of the War,, The Front !! watching this , I realize more, ........... 5 minutes to go boys !!!! wow.
The concerns and complaints about my life just disappeared.
My Grandfather was a medical orderly in WW1. He never talked about it. I can't imagine the awful things he saw.
my father was a WW2 vet . he also never spoke about it. not one word.
My great uncle was a stretcher bearer from 1916 to 1918. I think the same thing. He was invalided to England twice. I think I know why. Terrible. Love from Australia
My 3X great grandfather was a subaltern in the Royal West Kents. Apparently worked in a hospital afterwards - a man by the name of Charles Pye. Oliver
my great-grandfather was there. 1915 onwards. he was to remain in the army until 1920. he and his 7 brothers all served, all made it home, they were a hard bunch, from Lenton, in Nottingham. the next door neighbour back home had her only son lost. my great, great grandmother always said she'd have sacrificed half her sons for her neighbours only son to return.
What!? 😳
That’s a funny thing to say
Damn 7 of them lucky lads
I wonder how her sons felt about her saying that?
@@OP-1000 it's a weird instinct. I think those men would gladly lay their lives so the ma could have her one son back, ya know what I'm saying? It's a way to show great respect.
holding his hand at the end ..damn that is heartbreaking
Just came from the video of the lip-reader who was able to tell what some of them said.
That Peter Jackson doc. They Shall Never Grow Old is a jaw dropping experience.
Notice at the very end of this video.
The men are helping a wounded man. It must have been a mortal wound because you can see a man reach down and just hold his hand. He probably realised there was nothing he could do but offer his caring hand.
Just heartbreaking.
he was holding his arm so the bandage could be applied so your wrong
that first footage, i think the one guy says "get them up a bit, come on then, check them". found this out from a different video
yes, i've seen the same footage. and as she says that and you watch them you can actually see the lads checking the markings on the bottom of the shells as they pass them on. the bottom of those shells had markings stamped on them.
Just saw the same video
@@Rycidex Me too
very sad, i pressed like because its a very well put together video and everyone should see it although im appalled by the amount of mens death
RIP to all those who died their sacrifices should never be forgotten
Don't you wish they had something besides "like"?!
It's impossible to imagine the fear those young men must have felt going off into battle in a foreign land, leaving their family and friends behind, not actually knowing if they would ever return home...it must have been gut wrenching for them! To each and everyone who marched into histories fields of battle, to those who perished, upon those mud soaked meadows, and those who returned home, I salute every last one of you...God bless you all.❤️🙏
Most of them probably felt happy, a jolly ol' war in europe and kicking them huns to where they belong and all that glory. That was until the dreadful truth of modern warfare came to them. They had the "War is a grand adventure" mentality, expecting things to go like how it did during the boer war.
Its one thing to read about a battle. To see the maps and the photos and to understand what happened. It is something completely different to hear the voices of the men who were there.
My grandfather was in WW1 he told me a few stories before he passed. Poor man went through hell and never complained or said a word about it. He was in WW1, my dad was in Korea. My brother was in Afghanistan, I was in Somalia. My son is a Marine. All males in my family joined the service. I guess that's just how we were raised.
My great grandpa, who I had the privilege to know was 15. He said old men in offices made decisions for young men on the front, and the old men did not care. I have seen those trenches. It must have been hell.
Try reading the history BEFORE THE WAR!
My English Grandfather ( that I never knew) was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He made.it back home but eventually died of his wounds. Lions lead by sheep.
"WAR IS HELL"! My heart cries for them all.
Fodder for the rich. How many one legged ex- army were selling match boxes on street-corners.
My two great Uncles both died in WW1....makes me so sad that these poor men had absolutely no chance of survival...God Bless them all..
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
My great grandfather was there he said that there was not a man except him and 2 soilders he also fought at mons he survived the war and also fought the second world war
I just about lost it entirely at the end when that one soldiers arm comes into frame to hold the hand of that soldier who is likely in his last moments alive. Despite the carnage going on around them humanity shines through.
Always amazing to look into the eyes of someone from the past. To wonder what happened after the footage. Did they survive, what was their life like? To catch that moment in time , so long ago. Fascinating
in a perfect world , politicians would do all the dying ...
My great grandfather would likely have fought here, as a part of the Grimsby Chums, volunteers under the call of Lord Kitchener, that eventually got amalgamated into the Lincolnshire 10th BN Regiment.
He was shot in the head but survived. I unfortunately know incredibly little about him, but he lived a normal enough life after the war as far as I know.
The horrors these men must have seen. Their bravery shall forever be commended.
A side note: A "blighty" is how the soldiers referred to a non-fatal wound, that while debilitating in some form, is not immediately life-threatening, and would get them out of the battlefield and hospitalized for a while. The soldiers often joked about receiving blighties, and in the worst scenarios of combat, often hoped to receive one.
It's truly sad to think people who survived still carry the burden from war. Really, war is cruel... not a single life deserve that
In war both sides have to pay lives for victory.
War... nothing but sorrow 😢
My GGF was in 1st Life Guards from 1900 to 1923. I thought Zandevoorde in 1914 was bad. I'm amazed he survived all this. Never Forget.
Its remarkable anyone survived really, my grandfather was on the eastern front of the second war and you look at the state of those citys and battlefeilds and its a miricle not everyone died simply from flying pieces of scrap metal and falling bricks
and the sad thing is - no-one learnt from this tragedy...
My grandad was there he lost 2 brothers he was my hero x
"Get to blightey?"... Translation -- a blightey (little blight) has the same connotation as "million dollar wound." A wound serious enough to get you discharged from your military duty but doesnt permanently maim you or disable you. So the person is really asking, "Will this wound of mine get me out of this hell."
Thanks so much for making that clear!
So many young lives snuffed out… too damn sad.
My respects 🙏
How did the nurses and doctors handle all the wounded and dieing, and keep sane throughout it all? I hope one day to see a video regarding their experiences regarding this war.
Lest We Forget.
"Shall I get to blighty?" as in will they send me home for this wound? Is the wound sufficient enough they'll send me home, away from this hellscape.
My heart goes out to them in respect and love to them May they all rest in peace
My great uncle fought in ww1 he got gassed chemical burns but he survived. He told me I was a little boy he said it was abad nightmare all the shells going off all the time in what he called a place no man's land
Immense respect for the men who fought to protect the country
Hmmmmmmm....... awfully frightening, it is.
I could be watching my great uncles who died as teenagers in the trenches.
My great-grandfather was one who was lost there
They've all gone home now. May they rest in peace.
My Great uncle was killed fighting the Germans in 1915, aged 19 , their lives were squandered for nothing.
Imagine someone dying in your arms an they asked “when will we ever go home” now that’s...... fuck.
The lady sure has great eyesight to read the lips of those men on that grainy film.
God bless those soldiers.
The Ulster Division made it through the German lines. My great grandfather survived and said that the spent bullets could be heard falling like rain.
1:33 just to think how many in that shot were dead just seconds later 🙏
Such a disgraceful waste of life this war was, God bless all of you
I never knew my grandfather.. He was in the Argyll's, he died in 1939, broken and disheartened! What they suffered was malignant! Generals ?? Butchers !
When the barrage lifts
Lest we forget.
In the rising of the sun and in the going down, we will remember them.
There's never a final battle or a final war. There's always five more dragging on after the last one.
Many lessons learned.
What a Crime to all humans. 😢
We here, because we here, because we here, because we here..... Repeat, remember!!!! The boys
The average age of British soldiers on the Somme was 27. Those buried in Hawthorn Cemetery over 30. Look at the faces. Some are you the majority are north.
Our brave lads
The last scene for want of a better word of the soldier reaching out his hand ? To me sums it all up, he's afraid he's done his duty and for what ? He doesn't want to die in the mud if he reaches out the reassurance of another persons touch telling him he's going to be OK might be the thing that allows him to live . Remember them .
I Lost hope in humanity , humans never learn from the past, we have been having wars and massacres since the beginning, the only change is that today civilians die more than those in combat, ww 1 ,ww 2, Vietnam, gulf war, Rwanda massacres, the list is endless
How very grim. Everyone said "Never again!", but of course they were wrong. Would they had been right...
Well done, Gen. Douglas Haig...
Yes indeed, he was on the winning side.
@@anthonyeaton5153 mistakes were made but its the fog of war ,we got there in the end.it was costly but that was inevitable
@@paulmcdonough1093 it's good to read rational comments.
The battle of the Somme was not supposed to end the war. It was supposed to reduce the German attack on Verdun. The French were barely hanging onto Verdun.
I was alright until the hand holding at the end.
Me too. Its going to stay with me for a long time. I've rewatched it a few times and the dying man actually looks up
Britian was never the same. The waste of men. Dam those generals. And a for Haig. War Criminal.
We are so spoiled these days.
Our leaders sent the men to war, while seated in comfort, for what? Ego, power, status?
Anyone interested in the 1st World War should read "A fortunate life" by Albert Facey. A first hand account of Gallipoli. Terrifying and touching reading.
Personal stories are interesting but do not shed much light on the war.
How much of this real footage exists of wars?
Lions led by vultures every man🇬🇧
And some arse holes are desecrating these mens memorials in the name of progress (some lives matter) . It's disgusting. Get out and fight these fascist bastards before it's too late and they've undone everything that those brave young men of many nations fought and died for. We owe them our lives and freedoms. And I salute everyone of them.
I HATE WAR
Lions led by Donkies............. Such brave young boys with 5 miles back generals who had no clue and were fighting boar war tactics.
It's clear they didn't want these young men, millions of them, returning home.. The totally pointless "Over the top" = slaughter....
an entire generation lost because of quite literally the most pointless war in existence.
If only they could see England to day they,d stay at home
If was there for me I would say Fuck this for a game of Soldiers when going forward I would be doing an MJ moonwalk backward. Brave men all of them on both sides.
Brave men. RIP
👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏
Military command incompetence at its best, those poor Tommy's , typically British crack on . 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Why the silly music in the background. Is the subject matter not interesting enough? So why the music?
And people sign up to be in the army. You must be nuts, lots of these men after the war were left in looney bins because they had shell shock, you must be crazy to want to be a part of this
"There won't be a German for miles."
"Fix bayonets!"
That's one hell of a "CHARGE!"
They were lions led by donkeys 🏴
Absolute nonsense. Lions led by lions is more apt. Unless you consider Winston Churchill a donkey. Or general haig, the man who practically got the tanks going.
@@deece1482 I'm talking about the officers
Lions led by donkeys and were lied to
All these statements that people make about bravery. I don't think the warriors of those conflicts felt brave. As a matter of fact, I suspect that most soldiers hated even thinking about those wars because of how horribly afraid they always were. We call them brave because we haven't learned that war makes people into warriors that are rightfully intense scared all the time.