Redcoat's films: Living in a WW1 trench
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- In this film meet the British WW1 reenactors who are living in a WW1 trench in Belgium for the centenary of the 1914 Christmas truce.
It was an eye-opening experience for me to see the lengths that military reenactors will go to to show respect for the men who died.
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For goodness sake people! Stop putting comments like:
"Why don't they get water up to their wast"
"Why do they get good coats"
Do you think the soldiers in WW1 would want you to get trench foot and suffer what they had to just to pay respects to them?
They died so we WOULDN'T have to experience that!
Yeah, besides, the water level came up if there wasn't drainage system as this trench HAS one... Also all soldiers did have "good" coats as in greatcoats...
All the reenactors: yeah! You tell em!
Rest of the people who don’t understand:
I’m a reenactor
Reenactment costs money and you can’t be rebuilding trenches every year for hundreds just for the immersion
@TheMadScotsman mckay actually the british managed to maintain their power, the french got to survive and the US got to have more power oh and The Japanese expanded.
Hate how all the people in the comments don't realize is that if they did reenact the trenches properly, they would get trench foot and diseases
pesky rats and corpses
If it was done 'properly' some of them would be shot, blown up or die of disease. It is not meant to be 100 percent realistic.
@@awetheaverage68264plus that sewage, vomit, and urine…
To the people saying Stolen valor and shit stop its just a reenactment its like a movie without the cameras they cant make it perfectly accurate and its a hobby so it has to be relatively enjoyed by the participants
When I was a kid, I tried to dig a 'fighting position' in our backyard. Dad was PISSED when I managed to damage the leech field from the septic tank. Guessing WWI smelled a lot like my 'fighting position'. Helping Dad with the repairs and backfilling the hole was the ORDER of the day. Well done SIR!
SSG. U.S. Army (Medically Retired) Infantry / Sniper / SOF Intel (SOT-A), multiple tours and EXPERT Fighting Position Digger.
Well you live and learn sounds like you had fun
guess you learned what not to do, then learned what to actually do…the berating your drill sergeants gave you wasn’t even close to the probable whooping your dad gave you!
Thank you for your service Sir. War is Hell.
Someone has to do something like this for airsoft
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R. Yes, whilst it’s good, I wouldn’t say it’s the same.
There are quite a few WWI airsoft related things, but if you want something more realistic reenactments would be the way to go.
They do make one like that for airsoft.
No they don't
I had a trench in my back yard. But it wasn't that great, the envoirment looked like battle off asine and it was 170 centimeters deep and 1 meter wide. It had a ladder and it was confy. The bad part is that im only 15 so i wasn't alowed to keep it.
lol
I feel you I'm 14 I requested to build a British style trench and I couldn't sadly
Svaden, Is a 15 year old living with his parents?
So your parents didn't want you digging up their yard....Geez i wonder why :D
@@ksubscriberswithoutavideoPls why not lol
This is incredibly amazing. The effort put into it warms my heart because this is a great way to honor and remember those, from any nation, who fought and died during World War I.
One thing I don't like about reactors is the refuse to get themselfs dirty. Taking part in the cleanest war in history.
His boots are the only thing dirty on him
Cousins Grimm Well, I would guess that they have that equipment and keep it in a good shape for the public to see. In this case, an officer such as himself wouldn't crawl on the ground anyways.
civil war reanactors are filthy well my regiment is!
Do you want to get trench foot purely for reenacting purposes?
Do you think the soldiers in WW1 would want you to get trench foot just to pay respects to them?
Ok! Screw health and lets face loads of fatal and gruesome diseases just because we want it to be realistic.
if it was paintball I'd be interested. paintball trench warfare would be really damn fun
you mean airsoft? that would be even more awesome
TH3 R1PP3R yes I will join you with that
TH3 R1PP3R no it would have to be airsoft... nobody wants a rainbow
re-enactment
@@clementine3843 Oh shit, c ame back here to the vid comments and I see a TWD PFP LOL
That guy has an amazing smoking pipe.
The Frontlines your right it was
Yes, it is a gorgeous pipe. If I was a smoker, I would get a pipe like that.
More power to your elbow, mate. Your passion and vision isn’t being ignored. 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦🇺🇸
This was so cool! The guy is so enthusiastic, I want to just keep watching him!
good way to keep history alive.
This is good how these men are dedicated and proud of what they are doing and don't care what people think, a lot of respect for these men. It teaches the history that everyone should be taught and lets people see if person what it was like, by doing this is also showing respect for all the men that fought and died in the war. personal I'd like to be part of this group, respect keep up the good work
I love that guy so much he would be the Sargent in ww1 who everyone liked
The experience would be amazing!
What an exhilarating, and informative activity!
this is so cool to see this plus i love the military attire from the 1st and second world war
Sorry but it's not a blood groove it's a fuller its to make the bayonet lighter giving it the perfect balance
I was going to say the same thing, glad you caught that! Nice job.
Couldn't it be used as a blood groove as well though?
+wigster600 the blood grove was just made up by fantasy writers
tom bird
Still, doesn't the groove help channel liquids in any way at all on the bayonet?
+wigster600 what would be the point in that ?
This guy does a great job, and great video ...well done
In school in the 60's we had a teacher, past retirement age but nobody dared tell him, e had served in the 1st World War, when asked what he remember best he said "the smell of sh*t". Somehow that reduced the glory of war for us.
Ha ha what a brilliant answer and it makes perfect sense - the smells in the trenches must have been absolutely awful. I've been to towns where there has been massacres and a couple of dozen bodies can make the whole area stink like a rotten rubbish dump - I can only imagin what sort of smells come from thousands of bodies plus thousands of men pissing and shitting close to eachother...
This is amazing
Very cool! Well done!
i want to be apart of one of these so badly lol
+Konrad nice spelling
He's a nationalist? How? Enlighten me.
I want to rebuild Mišar sconce redoubt and to make film about Mišar battle...
Jacob Simpson same
Because his avatar is a Reichskriegsflagge, Deutschland die Hässliche.
Nice video mate!
BEST HISTORY VID EVER I LEARND ALOT I SUBSCRIBED AND LIKED :D BEST VID!
Very good video!
Well done :) like a real Tommie ^^ greetings from Germany !
HUN!!!
Nice! Great to see- WAIT DID YOU SAY GERMANY?
on the topic of the Christmas truce. During the ACW picket lines at Fredricksburg shared things with each other and went and chatted. it wasn't the same scale but it happened
confederates would trade tobacco for coffee and such.
Now THAT is a good idea. Re-enactors recreating the Christmas truce...
nicely done…the visual is all that matters, even if it’s not “authentic” or “up to specs” as is whined about. it shows the bare minimums, real ones probably had a lot thwt you can’t do for practical reasons along with health and safety
When life in the trench looks better than your home life...
Great sir
Shookria Bhai
Who else laughed at how long that handshake was at the end?!
Well fine you mate keep the history alive so modern kids know I tip my hat to you
I think that this is a very good RE-ENACTMENT video. Eight of my relatives served in WWI and about twenty in WWII. The comments below about who won which war, who kicked who out of where and who was beaten by who is ludicrous. England lost in the New World because the American alliance with France and things like Spanish intervention proved too expensive and a greater threat to the much more profitable colonies in the Caribbean. Without American supplied equipment after Dunkirk and onwards, Britain would have been up shit creek without a paddle and having sprung a leak.
Britain's 1914 regular army had been wiped out by the end of 1915. The vast flood of volunteers and the Territorial units held the line. The French were bled dry and many of the blood drenched attacks that the British made were to take pressure off the poor Poilu's. The Americans did make a difference and would have made an even bigger one if the war had carried on beyond 1918. As it was, the poor Doughboys had a good rifle, crap machine guns(the French Chauchat) and no American designed artillery. Artillery was British for the biggest calibres and French for light to medium calibres. American troops took a long time to get into action because of General Pershing's understandable wish to use his troops en masse instead of in penny packets. AND they fought very well.
As I said above, we would have been in trouble without American materiel in the first half of WWII but we had to pay for it, a debt which only ended a relatively few years ago. NO-ONE would have supplied us for free. After Pearl Harbour, America had to put its people onto a war footing. Never forget that it wasn't just the British who made a poor showing against the Japanese, compare the following; Singapore=The Philipines. If American aircraft carriers had been caught in harbour rather than battleships, the whole complexion of the war in the Pacific and SE Asia would have been very different.
In Europe, Britain would never have had the man power to invade Normandy alone. Britain could never have assembled a Commonwealth force in England to attack Europe with its commitments to combat in other theatres. The CIGS, Churchill, Montgomery, Gen Eisenhower, Gen Marshall and anyone else who had their fingers in the military pie wanted to avoid allied casualties on the scale of WWI. Therefore, General Marshall's enthusiasm for a cross-channel invasion in 1942 had to be turned towards attacks made elsewhere. Look at what happened to inexperienced US troops at the Kasserine Pass and other places in North Africa. The poor buggers had to learn their trade somewhere other than where they could be thrown back into the sea.
I suppose the point of my huge ramble is the fact that Britain could not have won the war in Europe without the Americans, Canadians, French and the huge number of people from occupied countries who escaped to fight on. Britain could probably have won without American soldiers in North Africa but not without Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and a dozen other nationalities. America could not have won in the Pacific if Britain had been occupied in 1940 because they might have been facing a massive European army and, more importantly, Navy made up of Germans, British and everybody else that the Nazis had steamrollered.
Britain would have had much more of a struggle in Burma without the Indian Army, West African troops and many other Commonwealth soldiers.
What it came down to was nations standing together in the face of evil. And I am so grateful to every soldier of every nationality that fought beside my relatives in Europe, North Africa and Burma, on the Atlantic convoy routes, the Russian convoy routes, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. My relatives served, and some died, in the Indian Army, the British Army, the RAF and the Royal Navy. My Uncle was rescued from a sunken destroyer by the USN. My mother-in-law was rescued from a bomb damaged bus by USAAF personnel. My Grandad died fighting beside Ghurkas in Burma having fought in France, North Africa and Crete. So take your petty squabbles over who won what with whom when, stick it up your arse and keep your ignorant gobs shut until you learn enough to make an intelligent comment.
I love when People hold histori in live
I love the old war
Surreal, cant imagine staying there in 1914 WOW.
lol at 2:11 there's a beer bottle behind that wooden support in front of the white bag
you forgot the ammunition shelves that is located over the firestep
I love that man
God bless you always
Something not addressed here, is the high risk of deadly bacterial infection from working in the dirt and mud for weeks on end. If disease, trench foot or the enemy didn't get you - that would.
Gotta save up for a ticket to Belgium then. I wanna take part in a WW1 reenactment.
Coooool
fgts, this is a little nicer than what they had, this room is a bit bigger, rain doesnt bother us but it did bother them a lot, this is nice and dry, sometimes it gets a little boring, weve got a nice thick coat but they didnt. but i do have a feel for what the ppl back then experienced
ikr lol it was hell getting any rest at all during WW1 was a luxury
olivier k could be a reserve trench? Did that cross your mind
Umm the average British infantryman only spent three days a month in the frontline trench.
We are the Anzacs again.
how much does it cost to go to the centenary were can I find more info on the web and do I need to buy my own gear or will it be supplied to me with my purchase
To have a good ww1 impression it costs about 1,500
@@ww2chat416 AHHHhHhHHH!!!! Dear god that’s expensive.
Oh my god that's an rsm from my cadet force at one point
"It takes an hour and a half to make a cup of tea but... What else are you doing?" Lol
Is there a longer version of this?
The deepest respect to those who fought in that meat grinder, I am old enough to have met some of them, dont volunteer for War, it has one purpose, thin out the Poor and make the Rich richer.
Nice.
Liked it.
I wish I had this!😪
wow cool
bruh imagine a paintball fight with your friends
I like that guy so much from some reason
Were the Gordon Highlanders on the western front in WW1?
Yes. I’m pretty sure.
It’s like a WW1 version of MTV cribs
Yay
Great work - keeping the story alive.
‘Lest we forget’.
🇦🇺🦘👍
Makes me wanna play Verdun
I would have loved to play there when I was a kid.
Perfect for tag, the one who gets tagged will get trench foot.
Cool
my greatgrandfather was a soldier during the ww1
This is the most spacious and luxsurious trench.
Well yes, it’s a re-enactment so it’s not gonna be as nasty.
Where did they get the jackets?
We do actually but for WW2 we do full Emerson for 5days non stop reinacting the gothic line
0:47 Nooo.... We fill the sandbag with water....
YES think STUPID!!
Dyllan Torrey He meant 2:47
Nice and weird, I like it.
Nice reproduction trench. My grandfather was a Lewis gunner in 1915 and 1916, seriously wounded on the Somme. His brother was killed a month before the war eneded after serving for three years.
I Want To Be In One Of Those Artificial Trenches They Seem Cool
This man has taken battlefield 1 to a whole new level
Tea tea tea tea tea
how do you sign up to do this
nice
No one gets that right. It's not a blood groove, it's a fuller. It has nothing to do with blood, it's to lighten the blade without removing too much material.
No more war ......no more orfans
In the thumbnail I thought he was Stalin for a second
This feels like vr
can i just come hangout with this guy
I just subscribed
Nice one - hope you enjoy the other videos.
@@redcoathistory I did I plan on doing a reenactment but, the WWI uniform is so expensive yet worth it when I join.
Can i come over and help the re-enactment
Trenches were full of rats and dead bodies. They usually had mud floors and bodies would usually be put on top as an couple extra inches of cover.
dont forget the lice.
not always and not every trench....
What's the name of that reenactment group?
Where do I go to do this?
Safe space circa 1916!
this rell cool
I used to have a trench. Or comparing to this... a crater or just a british temponary trench or mabye something you'll find out in the no mans land
What about the truce at the battle of Talavera with both the english and the french troops held a truce to drink at the river Alberche then?
Dimitri Wolfs wait what? I've heard about the Christmas truce but not this
mike twohy . Yes mate check it out,during the heat of that summer day there was a break and they all drank and laughed then went back to killing! Read that in a magazine called 'glory and empire'in french!on the battle of Talavera where your iron duke became Wellington i believe!
Dimitri Wolfs man.. I really love hearing about that kind of stuff. Ww1 is a really interesting war, battlefield 1 got me interested. It's too bad that ww1 is kinda skipped over in school. I never learned a ton about it, only ww2.
The Big Boi same im only in 5th grade i love learning new things about ww1,ww2 and just history in general my parents and there friends call me a miny historian and i also got into that stuff from battlefield 1
cool
you should make a movie
They should do airsoft world war 1 to keep it alive xD
Is there at no man land?
Course I see death pole everywhere.
I want to build one
What is the name of dress you where
WW1: paintball fight
O Tannembaum, O Tannenbaum, where the hell did that Mark IV come from!