A Soldier's Kit - WW1 Uncut: Dan Snow - BBC 

and the camera men

When you say 'fire' do you mean shoot him?

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Bio-Media agreed mate. Completely inappropriate

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+ronnie kray Its still awkward to hear dubstep while they are talking about the Lee Enfield.

We re watching these in history all the time

it's for educational purposes and to get the chavs and chav queens interested in history, thank god they didn't drop any innits there

-PaulYang2- exactly

Well that music didn't work on me.

Kiyoko504 ikr

Isabella Haines Please leave. Just.... leave.

Kiyoko504 or no music who asked for it?

@@theflyingpig6361 a WW1 british march would be ok, or no music as you say

It's a long way to tipperary wouldve worked. Hell, Wo Alle Strassen Enden wouldve been better, and that song isnt even from WW1! It was made over 100 years later!

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An adult with ADHD here. Trust me, hyperactive kids can do better than this.

It’s supposed to look cool lol

zoomers love jump cuts. what an abomination this is

​@@celebrategout1008dude the whole jumpcut thing has been a thing since the 90s, it ain't a gen z thing.

tone it down a bit jezus christ

Your shinji pfp explains EVERYTHING

The dubstep music is the worst choice ever for explaining the Lee-Enfield.

Illiminatie overlord Gurglekoks its better listening to that music than listening to you

Abw21877 good point

Illiminatie overlord Gurglekoks this is place to learn not to complain

Well this is video was made in 2014 and everyone thought "OH DUBSTEP IS SO GOOD!"

pwnznoobs7 its not dubstep

ChaplainHaladriel what are they even singing about?

Couldn't be bothered.

Darude - Sandstorm would fit better

why do you care? The music doesn't actually affect the content, yes it's out of place but I came here to learn about WW1 Soldier kits not listen to music.

Nathaniel Rincon I care because I watch the video... It makes it seem weird and I had to mute it...

my great grand father used to say that they could only push forwards when skrillex bangarang was on the radio

Marc Hindley This music unbearably loud and distracting... what ever happened to a good classic piece to accompany a War World I documentary?

Marc Hindley you are right. i find this some serious matter. they don't need to screw it over with that crappy as music. it's spretty disrespectfull.

Marc Hindley Apparently young people will only pay attention if you through in some naff dubstep....

Marc Hindley Yeah... some love song might have been the worst possible choice. Does the BBC not have a sufficient music library for this? It doesn't have to be macho and militaristic -Why not some sort of pop music from the era for greater immersion?

Marc Hindley the director was out of their fucking minds

Exactly, this is like the majority of the French people being snobby at the U.S even after we essentially saved the Western font and liberated France.

"Essentially saved the western front and liberated France." Haha, nice one.

Undead Unicorn. Southern England was being bombed constantly and Japan was winning in Asia. It wasn't until D-day, when the Allies, with help from America,Canada, and I'm not sure but I think Australia as well, got a hold on part of France. If America didn't get involved it is very likely Germany could of eventually invaded Britain. Whether it be a invasion from France or Norway, they would of eventually gotten somewhere in the UK.

But yes, I see your point. It wasn't America by itself but they were a large help.

The Random Panda right, I got a little bit confused there. You're talking about the Second World War, right? Because of the video, I just assumed you were talking about the First World War, of which America contributed very little. Sorry for the misunderstanding

War is a comedy. - BBC (British brain control) -

SNL skit energy

dem dutch video editors man

I also heard that the Americans went in with just scala hats and cowboy hats, alongside their bright blue and tan uniforms.

Yeah. Fuck them for trying to get kids interested in history!

jettrooper3rd Maybe they should make this in to 10 second vines instead, because that seems to be the average attention span of kids today.

@@Loo0Lzz Bruh been five years and vines dead😂😂😂😂

For the Germans perhaps, not the British, Although the entrenching tool handles were used on their own, once you add the head onto it it becomes quite useless for fighting with

Oh god that pun XD

+Herr Karl True... Lee Enfiled is worse than Mauser rifles and German used Stahlhelms more.

i mean.... a bad surgeon is a butcher but a good butcher is a surgeon, not that far off.

@@brittlespy9083 the very first surgeons were "barber surgeons" - the english term yet tells a lot about the profession's history, bath owners or morticians. Why not butchers? They had the practice with anatomy, at least that of animals.

@@jangelnar5624 not worse at all. Depends what you mean by worse. In terms of accuracy yes the Mauser is better but in terms of capacity, rate of fire and ergonomics the Lee Enfield is superior.

Indeed. Leather Pickelhaube were for special occasions only. The men in the trenches got cloth ones with some leather reinforcement to keep the shape. They didn't get Stahlhelms until rather late in the war, and even then they didn't get many unless you were part of a Sturmtruppen unit.

the stahlhelm was introduced in 1916, just like the british helmets. Stormtroops were prioritized, but the Helmets were issued to all troops. in 1917 and 1918 slightly altered versions of the stahlhelm were produced.

Leather helmets are still better than hats against shrapnel.

Not only that, the spike on top, the so called Pickel also had a chance of deflecting blows from the top in close combat, which once you got into the trenches were an actual issue.

like a 5% chance?

This idiot also forgot about the stahlhelm which the Germans made in ww1 which was made of steel and is the best helmet design and is what almost all militaries use for the helmets but now with Kevlar and steel

No one cares you virgin

Alot of people care

JokerHut Well I guess there are a lot of losers.

Joel L Well i assume you're British?

It was. But remember, this is BBC...

In fairness to the British they started with a very small cadre of soldiers who were destroyed in 1914 and early 1915, Germany had a much larger force from the getgo and experience of training and using such an army. Britain meanwhilst was trying to create a modern mass army which it had no real experience of doing so, they never planned for it. The BEF in 1915 and 1916 was arguably catching up with the other powers, compare and contrast the French and British attacks on the first day of the Somme for instance. Even then though by even 1917 and certainly by 1918 the British army was a force to be reckoned with and Germany had to take very heavy losses in order to try and hold it back. It is perhaps forgotten that Germany suffered similar levels of casualties to the British in the battles of 1916 and 1917.

Also the fact that the Germans had moldy bread as rations pretty much

The issue was that they didn't have any food left. The naval blockade might be why the entante won the war

@@JavaScrapper Naval blockade which is what the germans tried to break at jutland

Why does it matter, it's an educational video

guigui11001 i always thought of the british ww1 ones as the coolest looking myself. The frenxh adrien helmet was a great design too

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1914 British Expidetionary force could fire 20 rounds a minute which was better than any of germanies troops however they were quite heavily outnumbered

+HavokLoL germans*

+suicidal Although this is very biased, and there I'd false/exaggerated information, it's not exactly untrue is it. There was on fire fight where 30 Germans surrender to a smaller British unit, despite having more ammution and men, when asked why he surrender he said "the fire was so fast and accurate, we where losing men to quick, and could not put fire back nearly as fast"

British soldiers at the beginning of the war were very well trained, but there weren't many of them, and thus they conscripted everyday people into the army. Those earlier trained were far better at rifle discipline and of course general training. It's intellectually dishonest however to say they were this on point throughout the entirety of the war of course. At the beginning of the war they did have the best trained troops, absolutely, but they lacked the numbers, meaning it was mostly for nought since the rest of the war was more of "How many soldiers can we throw at a defendable position until we obtain that defendable position."

@@nahuatl3092 speech 100

+Zelik Engel Best fact, the british Soldier werent equipped handgrenades, they were discarded as issue equipment in the early years before WWI

+Zelik Engel Considering the Germans lost yes they were. lmao you butthurt kraut. Keep on trying fritz. 10 German bombers in the air...

Initially in the War they werent actually, thats what i was trying to say^^

Zelik Engel IX THE AMERICANS WERE!!!! AMERIKA (This is A parody)

Zelik Engel IX y

Jakob Unsworth German weapons too

Fair enough

only the mark V is on german xD

xD

Shay Patrick Cormac.

Me as a German: sees bright blue dot across no man's land

@@darkfishthedestroyer139 lol yeah

There were leather Pickelhaube with metal reinforcements and such, but most were cloth with some leather reinforcements.

The Pickelhaube was made of Leather and that's one Reason why they introduced the Stahlhelm

Carolus Rex Doctrine is the right Word The British had a Combat Rifle whereas we Germans had a Target Rifle neither is better than the other they are just different Someone can learn to shoot a mauser or Springfield almost as fast as an Enfield or even faster than someone who shoots an Enfield "slow" it's just that the Enfield is easier to shoot faster And with enough practice you can shoot better with an Enfield than someone less good with a Mauser can In the End it all comes down to the Person behind the Rifle

Best rifle it terms of speed. He does another test in another clip. Enfield could be loaded faster, which means more bullets firing at the enemy. And he is talking about during the war, not whatever happened after the war.

pulkmees Loaded faster? I think you mean it can be cycled faster Read Carolus Rex's and my second comment

In the end its not the helmet that wins the war... But yeah they made quite a big deal out of the helmet thing.

+Sir Aroun and Germany ... LOST

+Phil H ... why did they loose ?? .. cuz the allies / entente had more numbers .. thats really all too it ... the entente/ allies woud have won firing muskets instead of the enfield ... cuz of america india and such

@@rosso4122 If India wasnt a British colony, the Germans wouldve had a better chance of winning. The British Indian Expeditionary Force literally formed the largest volunteer army during WW1

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Of course it's British propaganda...what does BBC stand for?

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yeah :/ while the british helm was more flat the german stahlhelm was pretty much superior (if you compare both of them you see what i mean)

The helmets now are similar to the Stahlhelm. And not the british one for obvious reasons.

Even then, the Pickelhaube had a leather cover, so it wouldn't stand out as much as suggested in the video.

I know right !

+Uriel Ventris this whole video is bullshit

The British Expeditionary Force was arguably the best army in the world at the time. They were an all volunteer force (as oppose to Germany and France's conscript army) so would get full time constant training as oppose to getting called up when they're needed. A lot of them also had experience in the colonies of the British Empire. The BEF was a lot smaller than Germany's conscript army though. I found this out on a channel called The Great War which I recommend because it's got lots of great information about WW1

+Michael Milburn (MILBURN98) oh you said best equipped hahah I misread your comment. Anyway still have a look at that channel because it's interesting

The US was probably the best equipped unless you were unlucky enough to be issued a shotgun.

@@michaelmilburn911 Well, it was fully volunteer at the start at least. Even we succumbed to conscription later on in the war

He didnt say during the war, he said going into the war. And they were, by a large margin. Its worth noting that the British Army was the only fully professional army of some size.

Blank Yeah, they/he actually is veery proud of his brits. Also the Germans had steel helmets, the Pickelhaube was just ceremonial, but that's what he just glances over.

The Disturbed guy but the Picklehaube was used by the German army at the beginning of the war like how the British used caps it was only in 1916 that the Germans and British transitioned entirely into steel helmets (Stahlhelm and Brodie respectively)

And not to mention that the German helmets were far superior to British helmets

Blank The British were the best prepared in WW1 & in WW2 & Germans loved British rations when they captured any British or commonwealth soldiers as those rations were far superior to German ones, as one ex-Afrika Korps soldier said ' the reason I think why their rations were so good, was because of centuries fighting in their colonies) German favourites from British rations were John Players cigarettes & Cadburys Chocolate or Kitcat bars.

also the had oilskin covers and by 1914 almost all units had grey overcovers. in fact the brodie helmet was inferior to both the stanhelm and the adrian helmets in design.

french horizion blue was proabbly one of the best camouflage of the first world war it was very effective by all accounts.

schizoidboy true but the Boers were a MUCH smaller number in terms of their military force than ANY european nation and hardly truely prepared to face another european power either. Though they did fairly good with their initial clashes with the locals.

@@MajorCoolD I suppose the Brits at the time must've looked at their kit and thought to pinch it

Most arrogant people in Europe.

He says, in English

They have an inferiority complex. They hate anyone who has equal or more power than them.

***** It's really what he has written. The model 98 has the 88 rifle replaced in 1898 and has been standart in ww1. Pioneers and cavalry got 98k model. The Wehrmacht used the 98k in WW2. Of course, 88 guns were used but what is logical that served with the 13 million soldiers in the German army ;) Greetings from Germany

The Mauser action is the basis for most bolt action sporting rifles today.

and not forget to mention the german o814 machinegun !

motorrebell Its MG 08/15 ;) Greetings from Germany

Bloodaxetheirritable And very easy to clean and maintain on the battlefield in comparison to the SMLE & Lebel, The gewehr 98 was also the first bolt action rifle that had a safety on the bolt that prevented it from ever blasting back in your face if the weapon missfires ,so it was the safest rifle you could have on the battlefield.

It is not the music for me but the context that it is used in that annoys me

Nikolaus Kotzinetsi We got a millenial over here! Phew..i almost cut myself with that edge

Biased in what way?

+Kiki Is Nice to the British. What do you think

+Kiki Is Nice Much of the information here is slightly false or exaggerated, the British infantry where not some God soldier, at the start of the war they where better trained than the Germans, but equipment was practically equal, and after a year training was basically equal for both side. (I am British by the way)

+Attilla TheFunnn That's not true at all, the basic tactic for assaulting a fixed positing is know as the section attack, it was made during the boar war and is still used by the British army today and the US army ( however the us version is very slightly diffent to compenste for equipment abd training differences), also this idea of one army just chariging across open ground was uncomment, every effort was made to cover troops but there was very little that could be done, however there where plenty of idiotic generals.

+sam swann sorry about the typos, auto correct is a bitch

sorry for your loss, kid

I don't speak French but I think u are saying that the music is appalling

Don't forget the Ross rifle

Correct, the regulations were passed on December 9th 1914 and implemented from early 1915. On the whole the section of this video on the French uniform is inaccurate, poorly researched and overall rather dismissive (perhaps reflective of the bias?) - they never wore jackboots as shown here, the uniform is for an enlisted man but with officers insignia, incorrect webbing and the comment about the "runways of Paris" is very disparaging.

This whole video is a dumpster fire.

+Dixon GER the Pickelhaub was often worn with its cloth cover (light brown) and the later patterns had a detachable spike - this whole video is poorly researched and almost feels like it came out of a 1950's English textbook.

+Simon Cox and it was replaced by the stahlhelm later on in the war. I agree by the way, this video is trash

Yeah it is really shit.

Lebel was also benn good end in my opinion better then lee enfield

Only certain German Cavalry units had metal Pickelhauben, and they were not designed for modern warfare but for 19th Century Cavalry warfare (they'd stop a sabre perhaps, but were not hardened against shrapnel etc)

Because (if you're still interested in knowing) the majority of the allied casualties in WW1 were French and Russian, not British. The Russians had to surrender they were losing so badly, and as noted the French equipment was hardly cutting edge. As a result, the casualty stats can be somewhat misleading.

Unchained Irony allied soldiers were pussies? They were anything but that they were the most fearless troops in the world the reason for there major losses was that British troops were still using traditional march that they had done since the early 17th century allowing german troops to gun them down easily that was a huge advantage to german troops .

richard howe 1st Earl howe not exactly true. British troops did walk into battle, as is popularly known, but they did it behind a wall of artillery shells. The French were the traditionalists in WWI, still wearing bright red and blue.

Rory Stockley So really the german's had some huge advantages.

Unchained Irony the Canadians were not pussy's the Germans in fact feared them

The Kar98 was used by Calvary during The Great War. The standard German infantryman used the longer variant known as the Gewehr 98. During WWII the Germans used the Kar98k. Kar98 - Karabiner (Carbine) Kar98k - Karabiner 98 Kurz (Short Carbine)

In whole though - the message i'm trying to get across is that there wasn't a better rifle as such.

Read my comment again more thoroughly you imbecile. I said, during WWII the Germans used the Kar98K. Notice the 'K' at the end. Now, during WWI, they introduced the Kar98, a variant of the Gewehr 98 that was shorter and was meant to be used by cavalry. All in all they use the same action and look similar. But they are different in their one ways. And that is why we don't call all them Gewehr 98s

I guess their similar I mean i'm not German so don't quote me but Karbiner - Carbine and Gewehr - Rifle, it makes sense to get confused.

OzonesElbow Yes you are correct

the russians invented the first helmet, which was a tall spiked helmet. the germans stole the design though, made it smaller, and used it during the austro prussian and franco prussian wars. the germans had the first helmets.

@@diefreikorps9754 the French introduced the first modern steel helmets in late 1915. Germany and Britain introduced theirs in 1916. And even before that the French experimented with steel skull caps to protect the soldiers heads.

Dantick09 yes

Joseph Scott there is no WW1 vet

@@Tfugtsgvufexv it took me a year but they could be watching from heaven

The Enfield held 10 rounds (5 more than the Mauser), had a slicker, faster action, and were known for their accuracy. The Mauser is not a bad gun whatsoever, but the Enfield has it beat on the battlefield. Both on paper, and in reality.

+Molon Labe WW2 was quite the opposite though, the Germans had MG-42s and 34s, K98s produced by the millions, MP-40s and the worlds first Assault rifle, but the Brits only had the cheap Sten gun, lee enfield, PIAT, Lewis and Bren gun...

Molon Labe Lee Enfield never beat the Germans. in the end everyone allied against them, that's all.

Skunk Gaming We're not talking about any of that. We're only talking about the K98 vs the Lee Enfield.

The Disturbed guy The Lee Enfield did beat the Germans, along with the M1 Garand and the Mosin Nagant. As far as gun vs gun goes, the Enfield was a superior gun to the Mauser period. It held twice as many rounds, it was faster to operate, and some models (like the No. 4 MkII) had better sights.

The uniform was similar to the Brits, they both wore the Brodie helmet

RaccoonMoustache They change to a similar British uniform but still kept the fucking blue. lol damn French.

Ｉ'ＬＬ ＴＯＵＣＨ ＹＯＵ ＳＯＯＮＥＲ ＯＲ ＬＡＴＥＲ The blue was turning brown because of the dirt and mud anyway :)

Ｉ'ＬＬ ＴＯＵＣＨ ＹＯＵ ＳＯＯＮＥＲ ＯＲ ＬＡＴＥＲ while not the best camoflauged, i like the horizon blue

+shermonruler hey the horizon blue had a advantage .. u could stand on a hil and be mistacen for the sky XD

The m16,17,18 where great helmets but one draw back was it was so revolutionary it was harder to mass produce

+CosmoWW1 Renactor ... not really ... after they found out that factories that made cookingpots could makes them very easy XD