I worked in a factory making crisps when there was a potato shortage we started getting them from Belgium and went through a phase of getting hand grenades amongst the potatoes.
@@user-uv7up4vg6i That was in 1955 and caused by a lightning strike activating the detonators. It shows they are still very dangerous. 19 of them detonated on the day but at least 2 more didn't. The one in 1955 was one of them, which leaves.....
Going to Ypres changed mine and my wife's life forever. Wars are for nothing...as soon as people realise that the better! Elites playing games with us all.
Hey the Ypres was where my great great grandfather Robert V Gorle got his Victoria cross and he was a temporary lieutenant for the royal artillery regiment and he was in the British army. It was in the 4th battle of the Ypres that he showed such bravery he got the medal. The part of the battle that he got his medal was in October 1st 1918. My family still has a cannon shell from Robert!
I did a bike trip around the Ypres battlefield in Belgium in the late 1990s. At one point I stopped to drink some water. I looked down and there by the side of the road were three large rusty artillery shells very close to my right foot. They must have been dug up from the nearby farmer's field and placed here for the army to come pick them up and dispose of them. I had been warned by the bike rental guy to not touch anything like that. Words to the wise indeed. I quickly put my bottle of water away and pedaled the hell out of there.
They call it "The Iron Harvest." Happens every year when farmers till the soil, all manner of WW1 stuff surfaces. The farmers place any found ordnance roadside to be hauled away.
It would be interesting to know where the search was done. The Somme is an extensive area. The CWGC had a document with the map co-ordinates of where my great uncle Arthur's remains were found post WW1. They were recorded by the Casualty Clearance Unit that found him, and I'm told they are accurate to 50 feet. That put him in front of the wire of the Regina Trench about 500 yards SW of the Regina Trench Canadian Cemetery.
I think the Belgian farmers call it the Iron Harvest as they till the soil for spring planting. Tons are unearthed every year. Since 1916. Imagine what Ukraine will have to deal with. UXO's. Cluster mines.
That's correct. When we did a vist to Ypres it was said that finding one bone can shut a farm land down for as long as it takes to recover the remains.
There are as many bones and remains as there is steel with each turning of that ground. Hundreds of thousands were blown to pieces and buried in that Hell.
One must read about The Somme region of the Western Front to appreciate the sporadic carnage that occurred there, especially the big push of 1916, a battle of attrition initiated by French and British forces, lasted for several weeks with little gain and great loss of life.
Exactly, the battle of the Somme ils the bloodiest battle of the Great War, as I ever said at the end of my others videos ... Unfortunately, in France, the most often mentioned battle is Verdun, even so less deadly
I was near Verdun last summer and it’s quite shocking to walk the fields and just see this stuff lying around as if it all happened only a few years ago. We found WW2 bullets in a puddle in a woodland as well. The tangibility factor was intense.
I’d like to have the pieces identified, when my father worked on a dig at the Custer National Battlefield, there were many archaeologists who knew every piece of equipment that was carried by the troops and could identify them almost immediately.
I remember 30yrs ago on a school trip to Ypres getting back on the bus and the lad next to me getting a mills bomb outbid his pocket to show me. Everything went very calm on the bus as the pillock had to go and put it down gently at the side of the road!
Cheers bro! Very cool finds.. and well edited video... We also had a great time one month ago in WWI trenches.. we also put 2 videos about it... with very cool and interesting finds... Big support from ew friends and followers from southern Europe
those live rounds, the uniform fragments and the morphine ampule in that small area is a strong indicator that there are a soldiers remains there as well
Be careful when handling old unstable ordinance. Not long ago, two ten-year boys were killed while doing so. This happed not far from where I Ilive, in the US.
As a 12 year old, I metal detected the banks of the Thames at Woolwich. The old arsenal site. We turned off the detector because their was just thousands of .303 live rounds sticking in the mud. I took home a bucketful...plus some other warheads which we never identified.
I do not who said it, but essentially the quote was . . “War is the manifestation of Politicians who have failed the people they were supposed to represent”
Those fields must be hell on the agricultural equipment 😮, especially things like those discharged shrapnel shells . Although, I'm thinking a live shell wouldn't be an improvement 😅
I remember Professor Richard Holmes talking about visiting the Somme during his War Walks documentaries and saying that on average every year 60 tons of ordnance is recovered from the battlefield and that there is a bomb disposal team that is constantly available to deal with what's found.
The most common numbers you come across when researching the subject, is that about a ton of explosives were fired per square meter on the Western Front, and with an estimated failure rate of artillery shells of around 25%, there'll be plenty of work for the French and Belgian EOD teams for a very long time. Unfortunately, the same can be said for the Ukrainian EOD teams.
When I was a child growing up in the 50’s, both wars were very real, every street had someone who had fought in either. I remember a junior school teacher who was in the 2nd WW. Over 50 years ago my brother and I traveled through northern France and Belgium, every village had a cemetery with either black headstones or white, as an 18 year old it gave a new perspective of the war.
My Great Grandfather Robinson was excluded from the British army in WW1 for a heart murmur. He opted instead after the war to come to America. I exist because of this decision. He didn't live as long as normal. But he surely outlived his pals from Swansea who died in Flanders Field. Bless you Great-Grandfather! And bless those who suffered.
Probably yes. I'm not a chemist, but I've read many times that these explosives, when they remain sealed, are still active instead of decomposing, and they even become more unstable over the decades, depending on what substances were used to make them.
We used to get classes from EOD on occasion. One of them told us a story of someone coming back from a battlefield visit with a UXO, wanted it safed so he could keep it as a souvie. EOD guy said that he managed to loosen the fuze and that as soon as the seal was broken his arm broke out in blisters.
Salut Loïck. Merci pour le partage de cette sortie cueillette d'histoire. C'est très impressionnant et ça m'a transporté dans le passé. Dommage cependant que ce ne soit quand musique et que l'on ne vous entendent pas parler sur les objets trouvés qui pourraient apporter des explications. Mais ca reste tout de même une chouette vidéo. Merci encore. A+
Salut l'ami, merci pour ton commentaire. Je mets de la musique en raison du public britannique et américain que je touche sur mes vidéos. Je préfère faire quelque chose qui soit compréhensible dans le monde entier ;) À très vite
This is sacred ground. The least we can do is remember the heroic and fruitless struggles which took place here and try to do better. We owe it to them.
Les restes humains même un os doivent être déclarés aux autorités tout comme les explosifs... et n'oublions pas que ces terres sont une immense tombe de guerre....
C'est bien pour cela, ne pas laisser tous ces disparus dans l'oubli que je produis ce genre de vidéos, pour permettre à tous ceux qui ignorent l'horreur de cette bataille de le savoir et de se rendre compte que 100 ans après, tout est encore sur place
@@histoirekeo Félicitations pour votre démarche ! Il ne faut jamais oublier les leçons de l'histoire... malheureusement les hommes ne semblent pas respecter cette règle...
@@histoirekeo I think I spotted you (6:32) discovering some human remains noting that you neither handled the bone nor exhibited it to the camera. Very poignant. Je pense vous avoir repéré (6:32) découvrant des restes humains en notant que vous n'avez ni manipulé l'os ni l'avez exposé à la caméra. Très poignant.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Farmer ploughing up what in effect are not fields but a vast graveyard year after year...just horrible. Must do your head in...
the first years after the war ended must have been so difficult as well as downright dangerous trying to clean up and recover the land back into farming use, there are still fatalities from uxo's
Good Day, how are the Laws in France with searching? I heard they are really hard there. Also possible to one day come with you? Im looking for legal searching ^^ I would also give all my finds to you. Best, Luke
Some awsome relics u guys found and what did u do with the bones ? Brought them to local cemetery? Grazy to see how much is on the surface Good luck next search
They're nose cones from artillery shells, they're part of the fuze system that determines if the shell detonates in the air, on the ground, or below ground. Shrapnel shells were set to go off above ground in order to shower everyone below in a rain of heavy steel balls (@0:38), regular high explosive rounds were set to go off upon impact in order to cut down infantry in the open, or set to go off a fraction of a second later to either collapse trenches or penetrate into dugouts before detonating. Man's ingenuity at its finest...
![[2023] WW1 relic hunting in the Somme's Battlefields](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ldCvFImqNG4/mqdefault.jpg)
I worked in a factory making crisps when there was a potato shortage we started getting them from Belgium and went through a phase of getting hand grenades amongst the potatoes.
I wanna see that video!
@@PunchesCouches you can't see much. He filmed it with a potato 🥔
@@thewesty101 Aha! hahaha! AAHH HAHA!
Jesus mate be careful!
@@user-uv7up4vg6i That was in 1955 and caused by a lightning strike activating the detonators. It shows they are still very dangerous. 19 of them detonated on the day but at least 2 more didn't. The one in 1955 was one of them, which leaves.....
Going to Ypres changed mine and my wife's life forever. Wars are for nothing...as soon as people realise that the better! Elites playing games with us all.
Yes sure we are nothing in face of death... So many relics and soldiers rest here onto cultivated fields... Never forget this slaughter
Hey the Ypres was where my great great grandfather Robert V Gorle got his Victoria cross and he was a temporary lieutenant for the royal artillery regiment and he was in the British army. It was in the 4th battle of the Ypres that he showed such bravery he got the medal. The part of the battle that he got his medal was in October 1st 1918. My family still has a cannon shell from Robert!
The amount of surface finds is amazing. There will be thousands still getting pushed to the surface for years to come. Excellent finds
Thanks a lot for your comment
the small round donut shaped items are the German potato masher hand grenade pull string grab that is in the handle and gets pulled to start the fuse.
Exactly !
Thanks...was my curiosity 🙂
Er yeah it's explained in the video
thanks. If it was in there I missed it. Appreciated.
IT IS sad and cruel, what people did and still do. Peace to every poor man who died in this fields of pain for nothing.
Peace comes when we take responsibility and stop ourselves being manipulated by people at the top of society.
for the rothchilds ...
I did a bike trip around the Ypres battlefield in Belgium in the late 1990s. At one point I stopped to drink some water. I looked down and there by the side of the road were three large rusty artillery shells very close to my right foot. They must have been dug up from the nearby farmer's field and placed here for the army to come pick them up and dispose of them. I had been warned by the bike rental guy to not touch anything like that. Words to the wise indeed. I quickly put my bottle of water away and pedaled the hell out of there.
They call it "The Iron Harvest." Happens every year when farmers till the soil, all manner of WW1 stuff surfaces. The farmers place any found ordnance roadside to be hauled away.
La mémoire de la terre 😢❤💪 let’s we Forget, mon arrière grand père repose en paix quelque part la bas !
It would be interesting to know where the search was done. The Somme is an extensive area. The CWGC had a document with the map co-ordinates of where my great uncle Arthur's remains were found post WW1. They were recorded by the Casualty Clearance Unit that found him, and I'm told they are accurate to 50 feet. That put him in front of the wire of the Regina Trench about 500 yards SW of the Regina Trench Canadian Cemetery.
I think the Belgian farmers call it the Iron Harvest as they till the soil for spring planting. Tons are unearthed every year. Since 1916. Imagine what Ukraine will have to deal with. UXO's. Cluster mines.
How in hell my grandfather survived these killing field's is a miracle. Passed long ago when i was a kid. RIP grandpa, greatly missed.
at 6:46 there is enough bone there to warrant reporting to the CWGC - I expect there is more underneath....................
That's correct. When we did a vist to Ypres it was said that finding one bone can shut a farm land down for as long as it takes to recover the remains.
There are as many bones and remains as there is steel with each turning of that ground.
Hundreds of thousands were blown to pieces and buried in that Hell.
One must read about The Somme region of the Western Front to appreciate the sporadic carnage that occurred there, especially the big push of 1916, a battle of attrition initiated by French and British forces, lasted for several weeks with little gain and great loss of life.
Exactly, the battle of the Somme ils the bloodiest battle of the Great War, as I ever said at the end of my others videos ... Unfortunately, in France, the most often mentioned battle is Verdun, even so less deadly
The Battle of the Somme was launched specifically to take the pressure off the French at Verdun.
Thanks for all the battlefield walks you do. Simply amazing!
Literally the one place on earth i wouldnt disturb anything because it is a testament to our nature as long as it remains there to be seen.
I was near Verdun last summer and it’s quite shocking to walk the fields and just see this stuff lying around as if it all happened only a few years ago. We found WW2 bullets in a puddle in a woodland as well. The tangibility factor was intense.
I’d like to have the pieces identified, when my father worked on a dig at the Custer National Battlefield, there were many archaeologists who knew every piece of equipment that was carried by the troops and could identify them almost immediately.
It depends what types of pieces you what to identify
I'd feel like I was walking over a mass grave.
Basically is
It is. There are tens of thousands of corpses in this area that have not been found.
Just amazing. The ghosts of the past are coming out to haunt the way humanity is heading.
I remember 30yrs ago on a school trip to Ypres getting back on the bus and the lad next to me getting a mills bomb outbid his pocket to show me. Everything went very calm on the bus as the pillock had to go and put it down gently at the side of the road!
Dude whaet is that?
@@jboogie2541 It's basically a grenade.
Cheers bro! Very cool finds.. and well edited video... We also had a great time one month ago in WWI trenches.. we also put 2 videos about it... with very cool and interesting finds...
Big support from ew friends and followers from southern Europe
Thanks a lot for your support ! Don't forget following my channel ;) See you soon !
That is easily the last place I could think of to go for a stroll!
I'm 63 growing in hounslow in the 60s one of my main memories is of older men with missing limbs bless them 🙏 ♥️
You should have seen what was around on abandoned airfields in Essex, England in the 1960's!
I feel anxiety just watching him pick up 100+ year old grenades...
The absolute Hell that those poor souls were forever ground into.
Digging through and planting food crops in the decaying remains of those poor men.
As always interesting and fun to watch.
those live rounds, the uniform fragments and the morphine ampule in that small area is a strong indicator that there are a soldiers remains there as well
Be careful when handling old unstable ordinance. Not long ago, two ten-year boys were killed while doing so. This happed not far from where I Ilive, in the US.
It's been hit by ploughs for generations it isn't going to explode
As a 12 year old, I metal detected the banks of the Thames at Woolwich.
The old arsenal site.
We turned off the detector because their was just thousands of .303 live rounds sticking in the mud.
I took home a bucketful...plus some other warheads which we never identified.
Don’t keep it it illegal tell the police also
@@kittinanpara2223 😂 this happened when I was 12.
I'm 59 now !
@@antonycoe1290 Lol
@@kittinanpara2223 Oi bruv ‘ave you got a loicence for that detectin’ you doin guvna’?
I do not who said it, but essentially the quote was . . “War is the manifestation of Politicians who have failed the people they were supposed to represent”
Amazing to see what still lies around!
Nice finds! I'm a fellow fieldwalker/metaldetectorist
Sehr gut 👍👍👍👍
Those fields must be hell on the agricultural equipment 😮, especially things like those discharged shrapnel shells .
Although, I'm thinking a live shell wouldn't be an improvement 😅
Some of the tractors etc have armour plating attached in the cabin and seats
I remember Professor Richard Holmes talking about visiting the Somme during his War Walks documentaries and saying that on average every year 60 tons of ordnance is recovered from the battlefield and that there is a bomb disposal team that is constantly available to deal with what's found.
The most common numbers you come across when researching the subject, is that about a ton of explosives were fired per square meter on the Western Front, and with an estimated failure rate of artillery shells of around 25%, there'll be plenty of work for the French and Belgian EOD teams for a very long time. Unfortunately, the same can be said for the Ukrainian EOD teams.
I’m surprised you didn’t find many shell splinters, I was near hill 62 near sanctuary wood and that’s mostly what I found
I don't film every piece of shrapnel I find, but obviously there are a lot of them there
When I was a child growing up in the 50’s, both wars were very real, every street had someone who had fought in either. I remember a junior school teacher who was in the 2nd WW. Over 50 years ago my brother and I traveled through northern France and Belgium, every village had a cemetery with either black headstones or white, as an 18 year old it gave a new perspective of the war.
Get your dates right Nick
Amazing. After all these years... still finding artifacts. One has to worry about those Mills Bombs and shell fuses!
Me great uncle had a nose cone of a shell as his paperweight.
Poor buggas turned to atoms for what!?!
My Great Grandfather Robinson was excluded from the British army in WW1 for a heart murmur. He opted instead after the war to come to America. I exist because of this decision. He didn't live as long as normal. But he surely outlived his pals from Swansea who died in Flanders Field. Bless you Great-Grandfather! And bless those who suffered.
Isnt it dangerous lifting an old grenade?
Probably yes. I'm not a chemist, but I've read many times that these explosives, when they remain sealed, are still active instead of decomposing, and they even become more unstable over the decades, depending on what substances were used to make them.
No expert but it looked like it was not primed
We used to get classes from EOD on occasion. One of them told us a story of someone coming back from a battlefield visit with a UXO, wanted it safed so he could keep it as a souvie. EOD guy said that he managed to loosen the fuze and that as soon as the seal was broken his arm broke out in blisters.
Sadly, the month I spent in France I WASTED because I listened to my idiot brother in law. I wish I could go back and see the WW1 sites.
Salut Loïck. Merci pour le partage de cette sortie cueillette d'histoire.
C'est très impressionnant et ça m'a transporté dans le passé.
Dommage cependant que ce ne soit quand musique et que l'on ne vous entendent pas parler sur les objets trouvés qui pourraient apporter des explications.
Mais ca reste tout de même une chouette vidéo.
Merci encore.
A+
Salut l'ami, merci pour ton commentaire. Je mets de la musique en raison du public britannique et américain que je touche sur mes vidéos. Je préfère faire quelque chose qui soit compréhensible dans le monde entier ;) À très vite
Félicitations très belle vidéo
Merci beaucoup 😃😃
Awsome finds 💪
Some interesting finds
The amount of artillery used during the war was terrifyingly impressive.
This is sacred ground. The least we can do is remember the heroic and fruitless struggles which took place here and try to do better. We owe it to them.
This ground is testament to the obscenity of a souless species who can only improve on ways to kill itself and everything on the planet.
Almost feel like this is in a regular Ww1 reenactment field
It would be nice to see these items once you have cleaned them
Les restes humains même un os doivent être déclarés aux autorités tout comme les explosifs... et n'oublions pas que ces terres sont une immense tombe de guerre....
C'est bien pour cela, ne pas laisser tous ces disparus dans l'oubli que je produis ce genre de vidéos, pour permettre à tous ceux qui ignorent l'horreur de cette bataille de le savoir et de se rendre compte que 100 ans après, tout est encore sur place
@@histoirekeo Félicitations pour votre démarche ! Il ne faut jamais oublier les leçons de l'histoire... malheureusement les hommes ne semblent pas respecter cette règle...
I never thought of it that way, tragically sad, however abortions seem to continue adding the number, yet no cemetery.
@@histoirekeo I think I spotted you (6:32) discovering some human remains noting that you neither handled the bone nor exhibited it to the camera. Very poignant.
Je pense vous avoir repéré (6:32) découvrant des restes humains en notant que vous n'avez ni manipulé l'os ni l'avez exposé à la caméra. Très poignant.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Farmer ploughing up what in effect are not fields but a vast graveyard year after year...just horrible. Must do your head in...
Wenn ich den Lehm sehe frag ich mich wieviel Blut damals hinein geflossen ist 😢
😢😢😢
if brass ever becomes valuable again, this place is gonna be a goldmine.
I’m glad the music changed to jazzz
Back in 1971, my friends and I found a bunch og grenades on South Shore Beach, Cape Cod.
WW2 era grenades, too rusted to be scary.
that's impressive for the first time, it's something we remember
Rusted does not mean it isn't dangerous!!
Oh look a grenade, I'll just pick that up and wave it in front of the camera!! Trust me if that goes bang you aren't going to be walking it off.
What are these countless white balls/buttons with holes in them? Parts from soldiers uniforms?
The ceramic buttons had been at the end of the ignitor line of the german "Stielhandgranate".
The debris of death.
the first years after the war ended must have been so difficult as well as downright dangerous trying to clean up and recover the land back into farming use, there are still fatalities from uxo's
No idea if it’d still work or even be together but man I’d give anything for an original whistle and bayonet..
Good Day, how are the Laws in France with searching? I heard they are really hard there. Also possible to one day come with you? Im looking for legal searching ^^ I would also give all my finds to you. Best, Luke
Some awsome relics u guys found and what did u do with the bones ? Brought them to local cemetery?
Grazy to see how much is on the surface
Good luck next search
The bones are in the surface, we didn't touch anything.
Byly časy, že se z kostí napoleonských vojáků dělal cukr. Třeba Waterloo.
You can feel the mysery....
What surprised me was the amount of bullets unified but damaged by shrapnel or bullet holes and the shrapnel
You found a Mills bomb. You shouldn’t have to worry about that one - they were disastrously unreliable in the first place😜
It still had the spoon intact as well.
Interesting and sad reminder of the horrors of war.
Een paar fijne ontstekers voor granaten voor de liefhebber….
You better be careful picking up that UXO. Some of that shit still works.
PLEASE don't pick up the mills bombs again those things have anger issues even back then it did not take much to piss those things off
Great video. Do you need to get permission from the land owner before searching?
There is a reason that every spring in France and Belgium is called "The Iron Harvest."
What a tragic event, there is a lord of war the destroyer of nation’s. Everyone knows he being a fallen angel.
What was the glass ampoule? Looks like iodine, though it's not British because there a lot smaller.
Morphine?
Isn't that grenade still dangerous?
All those things are crazy,those bones will they be looked at incase it's human?
They are human. There's thousands of pieces of bone still in the fields
What was that glass vial, full of dark liquid (09:10)?
Okay, I have to ask: are the grenades potentially still dangerous, and are human remains still found? How is the last handled?
6:42 is that a femur?
Yessir
100 years after and pieces still there 😱
and will be in another 100 years
must have been surreal in WW2 ploughing these fields finding UXB from the previous war
Cool video, but it seems unwise to be picking up unexploded ordanance
The remains of a picklehaube helmet, how did you even identify it?
A hundred years from now, someone else will be posting something similar.
What are you doing with the relicts
A lot of 303 British
What are the cone shaped things you dug up?
They're nose cones from artillery shells, they're part of the fuze system that determines if the shell detonates in the air, on the ground, or below ground. Shrapnel shells were set to go off above ground in order to shower everyone below in a rain of heavy steel balls (@0:38), regular high explosive rounds were set to go off upon impact in order to cut down infantry in the open, or set to go off a fraction of a second later to either collapse trenches or penetrate into dugouts before detonating. Man's ingenuity at its finest...
you must be mad picking up a hand granade
Nope but crazy for sure.
Be careful something still could go off
Other than the bullets and grenades I have no idea what I'm seeing.
1:20. What the hell are you doing picking up a grenade? Again, at 4:45?
and ? Do you really think it's gonna explode ...
@@histoirekeo There are deaths from exploding ordinance from those fields nearly every year. Much of that stuff is still live.
Please don’t take anything. Somethings are best left alone. Be respectful of the dead.
Sais tu ce qu'est la fiole qui contient du liquide a 9:10?
Ce sont des ampoules médicales
Lifting up a corroded mills bomb?
Beim in die Hand nehmen von Munition wird mir ganz anders,selbst wenn man sich überlegt wie lange sie dort schon liegt.
Tatsächlich hat jeder Fund eine eigene Geschichte, jedes Metallstück, das auf dem Schlachtfeld gefunden wurde
Why hasn’t the grass grown back since the war?
What you are seeing is tilled farm fields.
What are the porcelain buttons?
if you are talking about the small porcelain balls with a little hole, these are elements of the trigger system of German stick grenades
So you find a rusty, 100years old handgranade and you just like that pick it up? I wouldn't go for a walk with you...
Better to wear a pair of gloves...! And leave the old bombs where they are...
before iron there is a lot of clay on every find as you could see :)