Stories of the Fallen - The Battle of the Somme (1916)
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
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There were nearly a million killed, wounded, and missing soldiers during the Battle of the Somme in the summer and fall of 1916. In today's episode, we visit the battlefield cemeteries to tell the stories of a few of the men who were killed.
#history #ww1
You visit where I cannot visit and I observe that you feel as I would at these cemeteries. I would be overcome with emotion. I appreciate your work. These men will be remembered and when you recite their story it reinforces the memory and honors them the way they deserve to be honored. Thank you and God bless you.
Thank you. A very poignant video. Every headstone reminds me of the heartbreak suffered by the family and loved ones of each and every soldier buried in every CWGC cemetery. So often our visits are fleeting but as we walk up and down the rows of headstones we remember the sacrifice each soldier made for our tomorrows.
I have read more than a fair bit of history in my 65 years, but a glaring gap in my learning was the Great War. Your channel (and Saboton) has caused me to start catching up. WW1 was such a monumental blunder but the even more monumental bravery and sacrifices of the men and women are made real as you bring the global down to the few or the individual. I'm heading over to Patreon as soon as I finish typing this. Keep up the quality work.
Another great channel to gather information about the great war is from a channel called the great war they did a a series where they did a week by week breakdown for the 100-year anniversary of the war between 2014-2018
I'm 15 years younger and I have loved history since I was a pretty young kid. Wars have always been a very big interest. For some reason I don't know why but WW1 was always seemed a lot more complicated than the others. Maybe because there were so many less documentaries on it than WW2 and the other wars. Both of my great grandfathers were WW1 veterans. One passed away before I was born and the other when I was 7. The one who passed away before I was born I inherited his Navy medals and one was for an engagement with Pancho Villa as well as WW1. I don't have much of a point to my reply except for the last couple years I've learned a lot about the Great War and it's the one that truly scares the hell out of me!
Have you read All Quiet on the Western Front?
This video has inspired me to research my family name in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission search feature, and it looks like my fairly unique name has ties to Bromley, Surrey, and Wembley that I was unaware of. Hopefully I can visit these graves in future, thanks Chris.
Thank you for this presentation. I have been haunted by the First World War and the Somme in particular for over 60 years ( I am 68) and this set of stories is very moving.
I sure appreciate you telling these mens stories. There's so many documentaries on WW2, which definitely deserves to be told just as much as any but this war and Korea seems to get looked over. So many people were slaughtered and they need their stories to be remembered
I saw you on the German cemetery in Langemark. It's my hometown. Hope you enjoyed it. Although enjoying isn't the correct term when you visit these places.
What a privilege it must be to return his identity to one of these brave young men from so long ago.
The CWGC do an astonishing job.
Yes they do Indeed.
I have been there today, Danzig Alley, Fricourt, Beaumont-Hamel, Thiepval... It is mindblowing how many men gave their lives for insignificant gain on a battlefied, that has no value.
I have seen the wargraves of C.C. May and Nugent.
Wow I have never really been interested in the great war but seeining this has made me realize the horrible nature of it.
Lest we forget.
Flat iron copse is where the germans had machine guns in enfilade towards Mametz wood which where the Welsh brothers were killed ,so was involved with a battle .The Battle of Mametz wood.
Yep. I did a video on Mametz Wood about a year after visiting Flatiron Copse Cem. The Hardwidge brothers were also killed attacking Mametz Wood.
Now that the 80th anniversary of D-Day has come and gone -- as possibly the last WWI and WWII notable commemorations with any living survivors -- I would like to go on a quiet, sensitive small group tour of the WWI Western Front. It looks like there's at least a half dozen such tours still going. Which one or two or three do you recommend?
Anything with Leger tours. Paul Reed is one of the best when it comes to WW1. I'm hosting a group tour with them, probably in November.
@@StoriesoftheGreatWar You (and others) might laugh out loud at this follow-up but hey, why not be honest: Any tour will probably include only seniors over 65 or 70 with some degree of ambulatory limitation and/or needing a bathroom break 2-3 times during an 8-10 hour day; do tour companies acknowledge that and make it a priority when planning tour days?
@@robbriner9575You are very wrong on this. Not to mention rude.
Would you consider telling stories from the other side?
I have done a few here and there. Unfortunately it's been very difficult to find anywhere near the information on the Germans as I have available to me on the British, French, US, etc.