The soundtrack is totally innapropriate. It's not a trip to the Seychelles documentary. It's the sight of modern, industrial massacres of European people.
@@jonriley8342 It's not meant to be a Memorialisation of what went on there, it's just a video showing lochnagar crater from above to show the scale of it. If the music isn't to others taste, it's easy enough to turn down the sound.
@@jocktamson275 bro adagio for strings exists and yet you chose this silly ass fucking child’s music. You’re a profound insult to the men who gave their lives on that grass
@@Lucky-sh1dm you have never been to the battlefields or paid respects on 11/11... you are just a troll, looking for a bit of fun...I've given the reason why several times before regarding the music, stop being such bore over a piece of music on a video you sanctimonious fool, this is my last reply to you sonny, so go bore someone else.
2:00 Top right, that's Newfoundland Park, where I was yesterday, filming with my drone at the 51st (Highland) Division Memorial. I did fly out to the sunken lane, but mostly focused on the moon landscape of Newfoundland. I'll try to upload this soon and send you a link. :) @@jocktamson275
1:06 the most haunting thing about the video in the bottom right hand corner is that almost all, if not all of the men being filmed would be dead in the next 24 hours within 1000ft(~333 meters) of where it was filmed. You are quite literally seeing these men’s last moments.
They were confident, but the blatant anti hero is the arrogance of the battle commanders. No surprise, broad daylight, no smoke bombs, superfluous, week long artillery barrage. It's so arrogant it makes me cringe.
Nice video of the castle. I grew up on the other side of the woods and the castle, along with its policies, were our playground. One wee mistake in your text on the video. The ‘Union of the Crowns’ took place in 1603 (not 1707) when James VI of Scots (son of Mary, Queen of Scots), also became James I of England, when Elizabeth I of England died without having children. The ‘Union of the Parliaments’ took place over 100 years later in 1707 when the majority of Lords voted for this in exchange for money. These were the “parcel o rogues in a nation”who Burns referred to as having “bought and sold” Scotland “for English gold”.
Hey Jock. Thanks for the video and I dont mind the calming music at all. If it wasn't for the brave souls who fought here and in the other battles, we may not have the freedom to play the music we want, I don't think they would mind at all. I will be visiting next month and didn't realise about the 8th A and SH memorial which my grandfather was in and won the DCM and MM. Thanks for your help.
Hi C C...to many people read way to much into a piece of music, I've been going to Ypres and the Somme on the 11th November to pay my respects for over 25 years, and people have the choice to mute the music if the don't like it, i get bored trying to explain, this is simply a drone video to show where Geoffrey Malins filmed The Battle of the Somme film showing the terrain the soldiers encountered, but these self righteous fools would rather comment on a piece of music with no significance to what actually went on here.
Why the obsession with pointing the drone’s camera in the opposites direction from the field where the action took place? The labels were helpful - but didn’t point out Beaumont Hamel ot the German front line. Oh, and totally inappropriate music.
Really have to visit this remarkable place, have visited camps in Germany, South Korea and Poland, but never in my home country. Respect to the former German prisoner who donated £110,000 to the community as a thank you for how well he was treated there. Not every German was a Nazi, not every German was in the SS, most had no option but to take up arms for Hitler. Have a journalist friend in Berlin, Austrian born, his Grandfather ignored his first call up papers, he was 25 with a wife and 5 young children with no interest in war. 2 months later, he was forced to join up, his role, Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, he never returned.
It is quite a remarkable place, thankfully they haven't flattened it and built a housing estate on it and are now leasing out the huts to local businesses. Many Councils and councillors have a lot to answer for by just seeing money in their coffers and destroying something that is of historical or local importance, thankfully Comrie have had a bit of foresight in preserving the camp for the future.
Where they had well trained machine gun posts with converging ranges. Nothing would get through any gaps. Everything that moved was most likely obliterated by repeated fire over the course of the next few hours. If you've read Birdsong, it describes the German snipers spending the afternoon practicing on the corpses' heads.
I enjoyed pretending I was a 21st cent' sparrow flying above the site and searching for the 1916 notable features. This summer video captures a mood I find agreeable. Thanks for your efforts.
Visited it 10th May 2019. Pissing doon rain day. That marred my visit to it. Plus my squelchy walk back to Comrie. It would be good if they got more businesses to inhabit the huts. And a cafe for sodden visitors.
Thank you for this video. My great granddad was injured here on February 1st 1917 while serving as a Unteroffizier in Infantry Regiment 362 in the German Army. He lost his left leg but made it home to Denmark after the war. Those who served will never be forgotten
Another great view..I've walked up the lane a few times, there is the remains of one or two dugouts in clear view, a few yards up..I was trying to work out where Malins filmed the mine going up, I took some photos and thought it was from nearer the memorial, but wasn't sure. The small narrow cemetery would have been in the middle of nomansland, on July 1st And this drone footage gives a much better idea of how close the village was, yet it took another three and s half months to take it.
Malins filmed the Hawthorn Crater explosion, further back towards White City, you can sit in the exact spot. I tokk his photo with me and managed to get a near idential photo.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 Out of curiosity, what was the focal length of the lens Malins used? Is White City near the road? Thanks. Someone should mark the spot on Google Earth. :)
Great and important pictures, but the music really doesn’t match. Men were slaughtered here. Something more sombre would have been more appropriate. Music here better suited for beach holiday. Look at the faces of the Fusiliers.....they were terrified....that’s why Peter Jackson highlighted them in his recent masterpiece of restored film.
Iv'e already replied to comments regarding the music...some like it some don't, the hard fact is, it's not consecrated ground, where nobody is allowed to walk, these are farmers fields now, and it's not meant to be a memorialisation, i'm well aware what went on here, thats why i don't hover the drone up and down over the graves on those fallen like a couple of other youtube videos of the Sunken Lane, it's simply a drone video showing where Malins made the film The Battle of the Somme....nothing else.
Jock Tamson I Guess if you know the history here, it’s a very emotional experience. I helped a Sherwood Forester pull an unexplored trench mortar from the lip of the mine crater opposite where thousands of Germans were killed, let alone appalling slaughter of the Highland Division and the Newfoundlers killed opposite Y ravine. Maybe, probably, I’m overreacting, but the Sunken Lane and the no mans land adjacent are sacred sites to me, imperishable in memory. A place or horror, terror, sacrifice.
by Joe and Ray 4th April 2014 J.R.R. Tolkien (writer of the "The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy") in the Twentieth Century: at the Somme, 1916 Scrape your fingers along your greasy scalp, pick out scabs, bits of lice with your nails. You are a signal officer in the Lancashire Fusiliers and your wife of 4 months, Edith, sings and dances across the Channel from the blood and death and mud which is the Somme. A shell-broken man bleeds on a stretcher, gestures, gargles: you understand and take his locket from around his neck. The weight of words press full on you, even when they are not words, just wet sounds. It's difficult to sleep; when you do, you dream of a mariner blown so far into the endless ocean he's accepted death. But he does not die: he's pulled off the deck of his ship, taught, by beautiful natives of an alien isle, language. A week after your battalion gets shredded on the wire you interrogate a captured German officer, map out enemy locations. He accepts your offered water, corrects your pronunciation, suggests red ink for the man-traps. In twenty years you will argue Beowulf is not a pagan fragment or a poor allegory but is a poem of lights opposing outer-darkness where a man struggles against the beast again and again and again and is overwhelmed.
I do understand that other people have an emotional attachment to areas in the Somme, I go every year on 11/11 to the Menin Gate and then to Thiepval and around the Somme to pay my respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and have done for over 20 years. I've had many conflicting comments regarding the music, some take it for what it is and others seem to be offended in some way, i just get bored explaining it's a drone video showing the areas around the Sunken Lane in Malins film, to give anyone who views the video a birdseye view of the scale and terrain the soldiers faced.
Douglas Castle from Scotland to Jamaica,this was a beautiful castle of my ancestors in it's full form,I hope to visit sometime as it is apart of my family heritage..Love & respect to all the Douglas's across the world,know your lineage!
If you had gone further back from the Sunken lane, also knowns as Hunter's Trench, you would have come to White City and halfway along that is King Street, Where the track bends, which Malins also filmed with soldiers preparing to go over the top. But I guess you knew that. We found a couple of unexploded Mills Bombs and a petrol can up there some years ago.
Yes have been at White City field walking, i love that whole area around Beaumont-Hamel, there's so much to see. While down at Butte De Warlencourt we came across an unexploded mills as well, still so much ordnance showing up 100 years later at the Iron Harvest. Thanks for your informative comment.
Thank you, I really enjoyed being able to see it from every angle. My ancestors lived there and watching this gave me a real sense of what it must have been like. I wish all castles could be photographed like this.
the footage wasnt filmed in the sunken lane it was filmed on the corner of the now main road were a small concrete building is... mallin needed to be far away due to the size of the blast
Well, yes it's small now, the castle has been destroyed a number of times and what you see is a little part of my Douglas ancestors who not only lived in this castle but built it.
This is beautifully done and the pace is excellent. Also, the musical accompaniment is the perfect choice because it allows you to process what you're seeing without the stress of processing crazy wild music. I would have liked to have seen a close up of what appears to be a smaller monument and two rows of headstones. Well done!
Thank you, very much. I appreciate you for showing this--such inspiring beauty. I love my Scottish Heritage and especially The Campbell Castles. Thank you, again. laRue Campbell Bennett
