Another well-researches and produced episode. I'm learning a lot about the detailed happenings around the war of independence through your programmes. Thank you.
There were plenty of shots fired. The Japanese bombarded Singapore from the Malay mainland and some British led units, mainly Australians, engaged them in order to slow them down. But yes, an executive decision was made by British GHQ in Singapore to surrender. This involved also the surrender of thousands of freshly arrived Indian troops who never got their chance to "fire a shot".
@@billycaspersghost7528 20s a grown man if those so called soldiers want to die for britain let them go die and leave our island of ireland to our own affairs
They were not soldiers,but paid killers,those that were soldiers in world war 1 had in Ireland given up any idea of discipline or decency,as for the Essex regiment,cockneys who hated the Irish then as they still do now,truth hurts.Irish young people in the republic have forgotten this history.
There is a lot of people in the Essex County who were born on the island of Ireland or are descendants of people born there. I presume you are aware of this?
Remember the boer war. The top brass allowed special units to run wild in order to allow them plausible denialibility. Breaker morant. This was also the case in Ireland and in other colonies later on. Lapses of discipline don't you know.
@@Ann65.No! Ye sound just like the Shinners of today! "Brits out! Everyone else in!" Have ye not yet awaked to the fact that Éire is now overrun? Looking at these excellent videos is MEANINGLESS if ye cannot see that we, na hÉireannaigh have all but lost our country, in less than 5 years-without ONE shot being fired? Oh, but yes: "Brits out". Yay. Whoopie. 😢😢☘☘
Go read some propaganda like the magazine An phoblacht if bombing woman and children gets you excited you work away thats part of the reason it will take a long time before we trust you lot again up here in ulster anyway as someone that has lost family members to IRA bombs nothing glamorous or heroic sitting behind a hedge a mile away detonating a bomb you will find that many old IRA vets did not agree targeting civilians some 50 60 years later
Most watching these (excellent) videos have not yet awaked to the fact that Éire is now overrun. Looking at the valor and the sacrifices of our poor long-suffering ancestors is MEANINGLESS if ye cannot see that we, na hÉireannaigh have now all but lost our country, in less than 5 years-without ONE shot being fired? 😢😢☘☘
Excellent. It’s hard to be confronted with it, but the truth speaks for itself.
Very interesting episode, as always. Thanks for your hard work.
Another well-researches and produced episode. I'm learning a lot about the detailed happenings around the war of independence through your programmes. Thank you.
Thanks, glad to hear you're learning something from the videos, that's the main goal!
PERCIVAL ,well he did rather worse later when he surrendered Singapore to the Japanese.
Loving the series. I would like to see the Balyseedy Ambush covered..
Quid pro quo by the free state.
Singapore was surrendered to the Japanese without a shot being fired, their shame reflected on the British Army.
There were plenty of shots fired. The Japanese bombarded Singapore from the Malay mainland and some British led units, mainly Australians, engaged them in order to slow them down.
But yes, an executive decision was made by British GHQ in Singapore to surrender. This involved also the surrender of thousands of freshly arrived Indian troops who never got their chance to "fire a shot".
Excellent video. Well reseatched, produced and narrated.
Subscribed, go raibh maith.
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Excellent stuff. One small 'typo'' though. The soldier photographed at 2:00 the Curragh I believe is an Irish Army soldier.
It looks like you are right, well spotted. It's the worst thing about all these photographs being in black and white.
@@TheIrishNationLives And all you need is someone to spot it and tell you :-)
Great stuff
Thanks!
I wonder if Frank Crozier is a descendant of Francis Crozier of the doomed Franklin NW Passage Expedition.
Some stats say that the average age of an Auxiliary was 30, not 20 as given here, with 81% of recruits being born between 1885 and 1899.
Twenty is too young to have been in WW1 and rated officer ,and developed a savage thirst for booze.
@@billycaspersghost7528 20s a grown man if those so called soldiers want to die for britain let them go die and leave our island of ireland to our own affairs
They were not soldiers,but paid killers,those that were soldiers in world war 1 had in Ireland given up any idea of discipline or decency,as for the Essex regiment,cockneys who hated the Irish then as they still do now,truth hurts.Irish young people in the republic have forgotten this history.
Forgive Dont Forget? ☘🇮🇪
There is a lot of people in the Essex County who were born on the island of Ireland or are descendants of people born there. I presume you are aware of this?
True
@@henrysevernI'm sure that Tom Hales and Pat Harte felt that warmth of kinship 🙄🙄
Thank heaven for Irish volunteers in the British Armed Forces.
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Auxiliaries and Tans? Simply put? Pure scum and lowlifes. Lowest of the low
Remember the boer war. The top brass allowed special units to run wild in order to allow them plausible denialibility. Breaker morant. This was also the case in Ireland and in other colonies later on. Lapses of discipline don't you know.
Ireland will be clean when there's no British occupation.
Yes!
@@Ann65.No!
Ye sound just like the Shinners of today!
"Brits out! Everyone else in!"
Have ye not yet awaked to the fact that Éire is now overrun?
Looking at these excellent videos is MEANINGLESS if ye cannot see that we, na hÉireannaigh have all but lost our country, in less than 5 years-without ONE shot being fired?
Oh, but yes: "Brits out". Yay. Whoopie.
😢😢☘☘
And who exactly are the Brits?
do you do any operations of the early 1970s with the official/provisional ira that'd be interesting
Go read some propaganda like the magazine An phoblacht if bombing woman and children gets you excited you work away thats part of the reason it will take a long time before we trust you lot again up here in ulster anyway as someone that has lost family members to IRA bombs nothing glamorous or heroic sitting behind a hedge a mile away detonating a bomb you will find that many old IRA vets did not agree targeting civilians some 50 60 years later
@@raymaxwell2940 amadán
Most watching these (excellent) videos have not yet awaked to the fact that Éire is now overrun.
Looking at the valor and the sacrifices of our poor long-suffering ancestors is MEANINGLESS if ye cannot see that we, na hÉireannaigh have now all but lost our country, in less than 5 years-without ONE shot being fired?
😢😢☘☘