Sword Bayonets - German Casualties - Jerusalem Occupation I OUT OF THE TRENCHES
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Chair of Wisdom Time! This week we talk about possibly fabricated German casualty numbers, the unwieldy WW1 bayonets and the reaction to the occupation of Jerusalem.
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Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
Michalka, Wolfgang. Der Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analyse, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000
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"I'm a bigger fan of your show than Cadorna was of planning battles on the Isonzo..." That's a VERY big fan of the show... But you deserve it. Your team makes this show awesome, making it easy to follow. Even though the history is stained with tragedy and sometimes entangled in ongoing conflicts. Thank you, Indy and Team for teaching me so much about the Great War. I wish we had more channels like this.
"A low count of 200.000" Really says something
Gives a whole new meaning to "Human resources"
Max Mustermann WW1 Generals: What's the best way to keep our man safe? (10 minutes later) I know! Let's toss less waves of Soldiers into a meat grinder, Who ever has the most man win!
who would name himself like this, just ridiculous.
A gross and quite frankly disrespectful oversimplification of the thinking of WWI (non Russian/Austro-Hungarian) generals.
That podcast was such a treat, thank you!
I have a question, what did the soldiers did right after the armistice?, did they head back home the same day or did they stay in the front for a while, also did any of the soldiers talk to the adversary (as in the Christmas truce)?
German Empire I would like to see that in a vid.
Stan Yermak I thought about that book too.
Stan Yermak Is that the book with Tjaden after AQOTWF?
I can imagine the vast majority stayed at the front for at least a few weeks and probably in many cases a few months. I can imagine a lot of work had to be done to move military equipment and supplies to allow civilians to move back into areas occupied by the military. Also, from a military standpoint, I can imagine no side wanted to fully withdraw troops from the front until it was clear the 'enemy' was going to respect the armistice.
I can imagine a lot of soldiers met each other after the armistice and probably worked with each other to demilitarise the front. George Orwell famously stated the British troops coming home from the First World War had come home with a hatred for all Europeans except for the Germans whose courage they greatly admired.
German Empire yeah it is
If there's a chair of wisdom is there a sofa of intelligence? How about a recliner of academia? A Laz-Y-Boy of Circumspection?!
There should at least be a stool of cleverness.
Bean Bag of Cordona?
Can you cover the engineers and weapons designers for the various nations? It must have been quite a challenge to constantly have to adapt to new defensive and offensive techniques, each side reacting to the tactical and technological advances made by their opponents. Thanks for the great show, by the way!
Daniel What an awesome idea, plz do this. May be difficult though because most of the artillery were designed by teams.
Look up c&rsenal. They even do collabs with the great war
Wow that bit about the Occupation of Jerusalem was very interesting. Getting indians to guard the Muslim holy sites was pretty smart and unlike the times.
The Australian Light Horse used their bayonets as swords during the charge at Beersheba. This was because their primary role was as mounted infantry, dismounting to fight, and they were not entitled to cavalry swords until 1918. This was when they started to conduct more charges and conducting warfare more often on horseback.
Not _entitled_ to cavalry swords?
That is correct the light horse were MOUNTED infantry not cavalry
A question for OOTT: Were there any significant developments in meteorology during the war? We know how important knowing the weather was for any kind of planning. Love the show!
already answered that in a different episode
The Great War Oh, pardon me then
i wish people hated war as much today as the ww1 soldiers after the war had ended.
I agree, but sadly we humans have a tendency to repeat past tragedies, in one form or another.
I think it's not so much that we repeat it, but that new generations come up who do not have the bad experiences of the older ones.
It's one thing to barely crawl out of a global conflageration alive with it's horrors carved into your memories, and another thing entirely to only read and hear of other people how terrible it was.
Wolf ... LOL ... yeah, it worked really well for Germany, Britain, and France *sarcasm*
Yeah, right. They hated it sooo much that less than ten years later they backed several socialist revolutions (and counter-revolutions) and then backed an even bigger imperialist war under the guise of whatever nationalist ideology. Definitely learned their lesson.
no they didn't. i agree. i guess proxel was right.
I think for ths first question asked, one of the reasons for more German soldier deaths, if there was any significantly higher casualty toll, might be the higher number of artillery being used by Britain and France and with most deaths in the war occurring from artillery this might be the cause higher casualties.
Higher losses appeared later that year and they rose due POW or desertation into POW.
Higher losses appeared also as a consequence if leaving trench lines was necessary while retreating to the next line. That is the moment of highest risk for losses / casualities and if that happens and they are simply fleeing losses are really exploding due to these 2 facts: longer time of high vulnerability and far bigger target than in a trench.
What else should the British have invented for that battle to get a "higher efficiency" cause the german defenders were as experienced as in the past fighting with similiar tactics?
Drogheda Decimator German ratio against USSR in ww2 : 1:6. German ratio against americans in ww2: 1:2. Germans are actually great at war.
he is actually answering it. difficult to count at first, especially years after the fact. also propaganda. if you are a british soldier you want to hear that you kill more enemies than they kill your comrades.
max mustermann Indy says himself it's up for debate and I also said another reason/factor not only reason and said if there was any difference at all, bringing speculation to my own theory to start with.
this is a foreign language for me, so if it sounded like critism to your initial comment i apologize, cause it wasnt. all i wanted to point out, though your point is valid, is that its unlikely till impossible to investigate that in retrospective.
During WWII, Flamethrower troops had a battlefield life expectancy considerable lower than that of standard riflemen, particularly in the Pacific Theater, where it was quoted that a soldier with a flamethrower was expected to last all of 5 minutes. How did this compare to Flamethrower troops in WWI? Were flamethrower troops more or less likely to be killed than those in WWII?
Cool fact
Easier to see a guy with fire too.
+No60508 That's why in Verdun, they hide in trenches (but lighting effects for fire aren't as realistic as they could be; ie. light should emanate from the trench, but oh well).
Again you guys did a wonderful job!! The best channel on the entire UA-cam when it comes to WWI history!
Great video, in Marie Remarque novel "all quiet on the western front" the characters were refering of the risk of having the bayonet stuck in the ribcage and then have to use the foot to push the body back, but if I recall correctly they were complaining because the corporal that used to be their drill instruction was demanding to the new recruits have the back of their bayonets serrated, that was what triggered the discussion.
Hello Indy and crew, I have a question for out of the trenches. As a portuguese interested in history I have read that to portguese POW's in German colinies it was payed the "soldo", some kind of payment in money so that the prisioners don't felt tempted to excape the camps, it seems to me a bit nonsense so I would like to know if you have any information related to that. Sorry for my bad english.
Two things about I learned about bayonets in USMC Boot Camp. The added weight on the end of the rifle helped counteract the recoil and if you got it stuck into someone fire the rifle to help pull it out with the recoil. As it was I never had to do either one.
Are they, Indy? Are they ALL the questions that are answered? How about how are you, Flo (especially Flo) and the rest of the Great War team?
Keep up the great work, guys!
All the questions except the 2500+ questions in our backlog. Haha.
Damien, just a little addition to what Indy said about the use of bayonets. There is an account out there from a soviet infantryman of WWII who claimed that his NCO saved his life after he struck a German NCO in hand-to-hand combat with his MN bayonet with such a force that not only the three-aged needle bayonet of his 91/30 went through his body, but the front part of the rifle itself followed, making the soldier temporarily unarmed.
For those of you wishing to go into some specific knowledge, there was no such thing as the specific command to affix the bayonets in Russian Imperial Army before charge as all the bayonets in the Infantry were affixed at all times, and in Regular Tactics Cavalry (not Cossacks) the bayonets were to be affixed at the time of the troops dismount from their horses to participate in combat on foot.
Steve, in the RIA's Infantry it was a rule to have the bayonet affixed, because that's the way original Infantry MN was been designed (as most of you guys are from North America - USA and Canada, it is hardly a surprise you know that), because.. that's the way the Russian Infantry Fighting doctrine has been developed at the time of adoption - constant threat from the Cavalry was been taken into account and the Maxim Gun was just 5 years old, i. e. almost no-one knew at the time what this 'sewing machine' is capable of doing.
Shashka's scabbards for Dragoons - and all of the Russian Cavalry - Guards and Army alike, except for Cossacks, adopted Dragoon Tactics after Alexander III's military reform of 1883 - did indeed contain the liner to store their bayonets (for privates and junior NCOs), but not for the Carbines, but for MN Dragoon Rifles. They were not supposed to be used while on horseback, and on foot Dragoons (and Cuirassiers of the Guards, Uhlans/Lancers and Hussars) would follow the Infantry rules - therefore all the MN DR were zeroed with the bayonet attached.
Cossack also did not have Carbines, but the Cossack Rifles - effectively, DRs without bayonet and with no way to attach and carry one - due to Cossack's Irregular Warfare Tactics - unlike Dragoons, Cossacks were supposed to shoot from the saddle with accuracy at any speed. That Carbine of 1907 was a disaster and nether actually took off.
Everything else is out of scope for this project (i gave that WWII account just as an illustration of Indy's words).
Cheers.
It's nice to see a youtuber telling people to CHECK THE SOURCES. A lot of problems today could be avoided if that part was followed.
But Breitbart said quite clearly that the economic crisis is the fault of the Muslims! Surely this is reliable information?
Especially internet sources. As the great Abe Lincoln said "Never trust everything you read on the internet"
@@Telamon8 I think Napoleon said that. Or Einstein.
Dear Indy,
Question for out of the trenches. Could you please touch on the first battle with tank on tank action. I hope the show continues on after November 11th. Thanks and keep up the good work
“I’m a bigger fan of your shows than Cadorna was of planning battles on the Isonzo” dammit, I love this channel and it’s community. You guys are the best lmao
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About the bayonet question, at the battle of Beersheba 1917, the Australian light horse men took the bayonets off their guns and held them as swords, they then charged the city in a sort of cavalry charge (despite not actually being cavalry) and captured the town.
Regarding the use of sword bayonets as swords in combat, probably the most celebrated example of this was the charge of the Australian Light Horse that captured Beersheba from the Ottomans. The ALH were armed as mounted infantry, rather than cavalry and were expected to fight on foot, but their dash for the wells at Beersheba was undertaken as a cavalry charge and many men carried their bayonets as short swords.
Hey Indy in junior high and in this year of high school, we have been going over the Newfoundland regiment alot. Would you ever consider doing an episode on them? Keep up the great work. P.s. because of you, my teachers, and my hobbies, I want to become a historian.
If you want a history of Jerusalem in general, "Jerusalem: the Biography" by Simon Sebag Montefiore is amazing
Even though "sword" bayonets are vaguely sword shaped, they don't really handle like swords as much as awkwardly long knives. They are usually dull. Since the cross-sections are optimized for thrusting, they are not really good at slashing or cutting even if sharpened. They're too skinny, and the blade doesn't have enough weight. There were a few attempts by some countries to adopt bolo or trowel-style bayonets, but the designs were abandoned.
When I was in the army - more than sixty five years after WW1 - the general opinion was that the bayonet was there only as a boost to moral - if you run out of ammunition then you still have something and also to increase the fighting spirit. However I should point out that it was used during the Falklands War.
Question for Out of the Trenches: I've heard that in (spoiler alert) WWII the "Kilroy was here meme" was born. Were there any memes or popular jokes about the war or started or spread thanks to the war?
Love the show
A question for OUT OF THE TRENCHES: Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany in 1871 after belonging a long time to France: How did the people in Alsace-Lorraine think about the war? Was there a higher number of deserters in Alsatian regiments of the German army than in "German" regiments?
Thanks and keep up the great work.
Hi indy and crew.
I have been trying to find an answer for this question for a while and i hope you can potentially help me out.
Did Stretcher bearers carry any weapons at all or where they considered to bulky to carry for this line of work.
thanks
Love your videos! It grants me more facts against my Battlefield 1 friends
Thank you for always teaching so well.
Kicking myself for all the times I've forgotten to click thumbs-up on every Great War video.
My Grandfather (Canadian Expeditionary Force - 26th New Brunswick Battalion) told me that extracting a bayonet from an enemy was difficult. He said that an efficient way, was to discharge your rifle and the recoil would do the job.
I stand in Jerusalem and think about how many times it was conquered. Lots.
44 times
diamond_man1000 thank you actually.
no problem bro
stone cold bsr still standing here in Jerusalem!
stone cold bsr me.
Out of the trenches with the chair of wisdom
Out of the chair with the trenches of wisdom.
Out of the wisdome with the cair of trenches.
out of fashion with a trench coat
I love how the chair has the same pattern as German WW1 "Lozenge" camo.
I miss the chair of madness
I have a question for out of the trenches. Knowing that tanks were small and cramped on the inside(especially the renault FT) were there height requirements for how tall you could be to be apart of a tank crew? Keep up the great work, love the show!
Congrats to the 800k
I know after the war in Jerusalem the British drove a wedge between the religious communities and would turn them against each other. Whenever one of the groups was getting too big for their boots, the British would support the other to remove them if any power which caused rifts in the area even today. The whole Palestine/ Israel rift is rooted from this
Certainly not all of it, but they did partition Palestine and that didn't help. Divide and rule is a pretty standard colonial tactic, worked for everyone.
they started it and the rift never healed afterwards but obivously most recent incidents are not their direct fault.
If their wasn't a militant Jewish State in the middle of a load Islamic ones, it would be better. But, they didn't know that would happen and they were using a perfectly reasonable way of control a vassal. It's at worst indirectly their fault.
Great fan of the show and very interested in the Great War since childhood. I have a question, do you have any records regarding "special forces" used during the Great War ?
Hey Indy & Crew, I was wondering how logistic and storage was done by both sides during the war. You see a lot of pictures and stories that there are rats, sickness and other stuff that could mess with the stored goods. Also how far was everything stored, so enemy bombardment and raids won't destroy or steal the supplies. Thank you for all the intresting stories, I really enjoy them with a cup of coffee/tea.
Love the show really interesting I have a question, what happened when the war ended? In relation to the clean up of the battlefields, trenches, equipment etc?
I have a question for out of the trenches. My Great Great grandfather was an Engineer in the royal Italian army he ended up loosing his leg in the war. What were the duties of the Engineers on the Italian front? Love the show!
Academic1740 you have just won the internet!
Well played! LOL
Woooo! 800k subs!
Ahoy Indy!!
Tattooing is a huge part of today's military tradition! Especially in the Navy, was tattooing popular then? Did other armies have different traditions Rearding tattoos?
Your show is amazing! Much love from Chicago! K.Sweet
I have read that according to contemporary medical reports there where virtually no combat related bayonet deaths or injuries during WW1. The infantry carried hand grenade or bomb was King of the trenches.
Omg the "i am a bigger fan of your show than hotzendörf was of planning battles on the isonzo" made me laugh my ass off
Hello Indy and the crew I want to ask you to tell us more about the Attack of The Dead Men in 1915. Its an interesting story i think.
A question for out of the trenches.
We see in the opening of the movie Passnchendael 4 Canadian soldiers in a French city (presumably Ypres) but how common was this urban combat in WWI? Did it happen at all? I know the Canadians were innovators of urban combat in the Second World War but in my personal research I can’t find anything about fighting in urban areas at all thanks love the show
Great war Subscriber "Body Count", 800K....congratulations team, proud to be one in that list....
Glad to have you on board.
whoa, a reply!!! ... I been here since 200k... flattered to be recognized.
Question for OotT: will there be another OotT episode with the chair of madness?
Is there any channel like this, but about WWII?? I love the channel but i am more into WWII. Thanks for the answer :)
I was just talking with my mother recently about our great-grandfather (Her grandfather) who fought in first world war. Apparently there were old magnetic tapes of him talking about his experiences in Swedish at our cottage. Which I thought could have made for pretty interesting insight. But apparently they were destroyed 6-8 years ago when our cottage was torn down (The roof had long since fallen in because of water damage) I was never even aware of of the tapes during the decade we visited the cottage when I was a child..
He apparently also fought in the Finnish independence war in the Red side, went to prison camp with his brother where his brother would end up dying during the food shortages.
It is truly a shame to realize your lineage would have had something to give to the world too late for that something to be recorded.
Hey Indy,
Idea for out of the trenches: I am an intern at a museum and was in charge of identifying a WWI major in a photograph album the museum posses. He was attached to the 40th Pathans, an infantry unit in India, but while they served in Europe, he never left India. In several of his photographs he is wearing spurs. Is it common for British officers in India or in general to wear spurs? Also, do you know of any places where I could find military records? The Imperial War Museum did not help much.
Please do a video on Norway during ww1
Can someone tell me what could be the highest rank you could see or reach in a trench? I'm planning to make a story and I don't want it to be too over the top (pun intended).
Cyantile I think it's col. But I might be wrong.
diggerinfantry right...um forgive me for saying this but how does that connect exactly?
So... Lt Colonels had high death rates... I wonder why?
diggerinfantry wia or mia?
Wait so... A brigadier is higher than a colonel?
Very well done. My personal information is that Arab forces joined with the Australians, after the Battle of Beersheba, intent on ridding themselves of the Ottomans.☆ Similarly, Georgian and Armenian knights rode with the Mongols, to fight against the Mamelukes ☆
800k SUBSCRIBER FELLAS!
How common were semi auto rifles in combat and if so we're they given to groups of soldiers or certain divisions. Keep up the good work
Hey Indy , I have a question was there any other notable truces similar to the Christmas truce such as an Easter truce?
P.S the show is magnificent.
hey indy and crew when the war ended how did the soldiers fighting find out the war ended and how did it play out did they simply stop fighting packed up and left also did some fighting keep on going after 11-11-1918 and if it did where and when did it stop. thanks for making every video you make fun and entertaing to watch i look foward to every video you make so keep on making these great videos
"One of our men was lying with a German Bayonet through him - not unlike a pin through a large beetle. Bayonets are hard to remove when once they have been caught between the ribs, especially the saw-tooth bayonets many of the Germans carried. To dislodge them it is usually necessary to shoot once or more to loosen the bayonet. This German had not waited, but had left his gun and passed on."
-Lt. Robert C. Hoffman, U.S. 28th Division, August 1918
Steve Kaczynski This is an excerpt where Robert C. Hoffman described working as a burial detail two weeks after the fighting had taken place. It is more than safe to assume the poor man was dead.
Hello there Team of The Great War,
i am a big fan of the channel since the german version gave up und i have a question: We heard about new technologies during the war, but what about social reforms? What was new back then what we today take as a given? Please?
Thanks you.
Hi guys, love your show.
I have a question, why did the europe powers saw the army from the states as amateurs, after all they fought in the Spanish-EEUU war and several Bananas war before the Great War?
I have a out of the trenches question i remember hearing of a german diplomat before the war broke out who pleaded with russia to not enter the war and i would be the end of all monarchys do you think the powers of urope regreted making there design love your show
Was there a day you weren't Indi Neidell? :O
Listen to Passchendaele by Iron Maiden!
As now we know that Indy will very likely do a WW2 show as well, I wonder who will dethrone Hotzendorf and Cadorna and take position of series running joke...
Trench club is probably one of the most brutal weapon in human history.
I still see that kukri on set. Is it a an authentic WW-1 piece, what's it's history? This knife collector wants to know When do we get a video on the Gurkhas in WW-1? Love the show!
I have a question about the kaiser, did his sons become any of those causitiles.
Hey Indy an team, I got a question for OOTT: Did music play a big role during the war? Was it used to boost morale? Were there like hits throughout the trenches? I'd love to know. Keep up the good work comrades
Awesome stuff, thanks! Would love to hear Indy tell more about the topic.
HAHA, *Academic1740* your comment "has shot down the bird" today (german saying) :D :D
Hi Indy Ive got 2 questions actually,number 1 is how many Portuguese soldiers actually Fought on the front lines in WW1,(if any at all)i was wondering as they are remembered as the forgotten ally,the second question is as the show is filmed in Berlin and you have very good Pronunciation of German Names,do you speak German yourself?
podcast!? how did i miss that???
Hey indy, I have received an assignment for school, we have to read a biography or autobiography about someone, I really would like to read something about a ww1 person, military or civilian, got any suggestions for me? Thanks and love the show
Indiana Neidell I suspected that :)
About sword bayonets: I think that term is a more modern invention. There was no training for their usage as swords, nor would they be effective as swords as they were not designed for that. A proper sword needs to be light, flexible, agile and sharp, but a bayonet just needs to be used for thrusting and as such is meant to be strong. They are not flexible or really sharp!
The truth is they are called sword bayonets because of their length only (which really isn't long enough to be a sword) and that length was there to kill a charging horse.
When do we get Ernst Jünger??! Already 1918! Come on, guys. I have asking for it for a couple of years now. Remarque pops up from time to time but how come Jünger does not?? PS. I love the show.
Have you ever played or seen gameplay footage of the game Battlefield 1? I'm really curious if anybody has had the second experience too.. Having grown a deep fascination of The Great War from Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon, playing this game has been one of the most incredible tools in understanding the reality of the men who passed away in this war. I know this sounds silly, but the game really does do historical accuracy justice. From the bayonet charges leaving you vulnerable as you described, to the uniforms of the various empires, and the meticulously constructed virtual worlds. Again I know this sounds silly to a lot, but being deeply immersed during a game makes your heart pump as if it were real life. Further, reading and listening to stories about the great war is even more fascinating with the mental visuals I have from this game. I highly recommend this tool. :)
Petestaaa He actually helped DICE with development of things in the game like medals and such . He has a video about it.
It's closer than most war games.
Anthony Gadway I'm not saying I understand what those men went through. I'm saying having the very realistic visual references from the game, while reading and listening about the great war can produce real emotion. There's no doubt you can find yourself very emersed in the game, and as silly as it sounds (as I first stated) you're heart rate and adrenaline are genuinely stimulated.
Anthony Gadway but I'm guessing you haven't actually played the game. So you're just trying to sound intellectual.
akimbo5u that's awesome! Thanks for the heads up!
British intelligence officers tried to estimate casualties from captured German paybooks. The Soldbuch or paybook of German soldiers was numbered sequentially and the British tried to work out casualties from this fact, though how successfully I don't know.
Oh my god, just do one on the Polar Bear expedition already please. It was such an awesome front. Pre cold war fighting between bolsheviks/communists and western troops.
Thank you for reminding all your viewers (who are really passionate about hot button topics) to "check your sources twice." I wish this practice is instituted in teaching history even at primary levels.
You mention bayonets getting stuck in people but you don't mention Generals Die in Bed? That has the best bayonet scene in literary history.
Would there not be a higher chance of german casualties given their tactic of immediately counter-attacking when they lost ground, even when it was clearly unwise?
Usually, the troops at the front line would not be in a great shape to repel an attack. Disrupted communications often prevented artillery support and prevented the arrival of reserves in the right spot at the right time. Thus German counter attacks were often not an easy time to inflict a beating to them, though it was tried and it did happen.
But it was not a thing that went unnoticed.
As it turns out the Germans kept up this habit of counter-attacking in WW2. The British were hoping for this and extensively planned for it. They made it a point for their attacking troops to dig in on their objectives rather then to try and exploit a breakthrough. Only follow on troops were to try and break through, though the confusion and delay caused by units passing through each other it rarely materialized into something worthy of note. This led to a lot criticism particularly from US press and commanders.
But with radio equipped front line units, artillery and anti-tank guns moving forward after supporting the initial attack and careful staff work to conduct the movement of troops to where they were needed, the Brits were frequently able to hand out a solid beating to counter attacking Germans.
It became a tried and tested tactic the Brits relied on and, curiously, the Germans kept falling for it throughout the war. In Normandy the loss of panzers in local counter attacks was a significant contributor to the hollowing out of the German panzer divisions. As an example, during Operation Totalize German tank ace Michael Wittmann died in one such attack when he drove his command into the crossfire of waiting Canadian and British tanks and got annihilated.
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Hi Indy and Crew, I was just wondering if you could please do a special on The Australian Mobile Veterinary Corps. I have recently read a historical fiction called 1916 by Alan Tucker and that was it was about but I was wondering if you could please give me and everyone more information on it. I believe about 136,000 'Walers' (Common name for Australian horses) served in World War 1 of which only one returned to Australia, many had to be sold or shot after the war and many were killed during the war. The only horse that returned to Australia was the horse that belonged to Major General Sir William Bridges whose name was Sandy, William Bridges died on the 18th of May, 1915 at Gallipoli even though Sandy survived the war. William died by a sniper bullet wound he had suffered 3 days early. He was one of the only two out of about 60,000 Australian soldiers whose body was returned home, the other being the famous unknown Australian soldier who lies at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. After Sandy's death his head and neck are preserved at the Australian War Memorial. After Sandy returned to Australia he saw out the rest of his days at the Remount Depot.His blindness which was increasing and debility was also increasing prompted the decision to have him put down, “as a humane action”, in May 1923, this is a good link to find out more www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/horses/sandy. Keep up the good work, I really like your show and hope you will continue it after November and maybe start a channel about WW2. Thanks.
Very specific topic, but we will have a look at it.
Thank you. Sorry I didn't mean to go that far in but I really love History.
5:10 - But there was a french general that did though. Always the french.
The Imperial War Museum in London has quite the collection of hand to hand combat weapons. The soldiers made some really nasty stuff.
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Indy should grow that beard until Armistice Day!
Also, it's not too long since I read 'All Quiet On the Western Front', and it was either the movie that said that you'd get killed on sight if you had a particular kind of bayonet, or that you shouldn't use the bayonet because it'd get stuck and probably break in the process of stabbing someone.
What I do remember about that book is that the protagonist went home on leave and was a guard at a prison camp where he noted that the inmates were so dull from malnourishment that they didn't even masturbate vigorously anymore which reportedly had happened earlier on a company level. Whatever that means, imagine that.
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The people that dislike these videos should be sent to the Arabian desert battlefields in summer and to Caporetto in winter....
Dear Indy and gang, did ANY of the nations of the central powers get close to wining the Great War? Also what was the largest battle in Africa during the Great War?
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I heart sword bayonets. In fact I just started my channel recently and my first vid is mah collection :D
a hundred years ago...nations and rulers seemed to have more political tact and grace than many powerful nations...and certain leaders have today -.-