Canada's Role In The First World War | Far From Home: Sam's Army 

Canadians BOSSED the Western Front. Europe's thanks to these Canucks can never be understated. Much love from Ulster.

In Flanders Fields ... our 5th grade teacher, an ex-Pat Brit made his students commit this poem to memory; at 73 yrs young I am still able to recite it. I've always wondered why it is never recited every Nov 11th in honour off all our men & women who have fallen.

Wow an Anglophone narrator actually bothered to make an effort to properly pronounce French Canadian names. What a rare treat.

Here's to the Canadians, may You R.I.P.

I'm sorry ya'll that line from the Kaiser absolutely killed it. When the Kaiser found out that the Canadians had landed in England on 30 ships he replied. "They will go back in 30-row boats." I feel like the Kaiser would make a good rap album.

Respect to our northern neighbors! To raise a volunteer force of that size with such a modest population! Especially since you had no choice in entering the war.. the U.K. declared war, so you all were automatically in!

Those who served in Afghanistan have shown that this spirit still lives in our true north strong and free!

Sam Hughes is deservingly forgotten, along with his whole despotic family. The Canadian expeditionary force started to become an unstoppable force when he resigned and his brother in law, son et al were systematically run off. God damn Sam for putting a unreliable weapon into my grandfather’s hands.

The canadians had few good commanders, poor weapons but fought on regardless of what horrors lied before them.... we owe so much to canada (and other allies) for the sacrifices they gave during ww1.. regards,respect and admiration : from karl in the uk

Our dear military boys from back then should have gotten more recognition to be honest given that during the years between 1914 and 1918 there was a bill passed that stopped them from being allowed to volunteer their service and instead forced able bodied men in Canada to go to the military. Forced to leave their families, their wives, their children and be forced to March into what they thought was certain death. I had family that were in both world wars and I can't imagine what they went through but our troops were BOSS during those years. Lest we forget ❤

My great grandfather was in that first vanguard in august 1914, and fought in the second battle of ypres.

I am Canadian and I feel that our war achievements are usually underestimated, this video is a good representation of Canada in WW1. One thing that I think is cool is that my school is named Courcelette, after the battle of flers-courcelette.

My English Grandfather enlisted in WW1 from Ladysmith, Vancouver Island. He fought the Somme & Vimy Ridge & came back to Vancouver to my Gram, new baby, wounded twice, pandemic at 23 yrs old. My Grams Grandfather Captain James Douglas Warren opened up the Trade Routes for the HBC, around Vancouver Island to the Haida Gwaii. He married Tossamitsa Edenshaw a Chief's daughter from there. She survived Kuper Island to be the oldest Native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhees( King Freezies GGrandaughter) & was interned to Sardis, B.C. She was the First Person to Win Back the RIGHT'S FOR The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950, also one of the First to have open ❤ Heart Surgery in CANADA. 🇨🇦

I salute you fellow Canadians who served our country and defended it I am so proud of you boys god save Canada god save general curie god save my country

This was and will forever be Arthur's Army. Arthur Currie was Canada's greatest general. Sam Hughes was an embarrassment.

Here's to the Canadians. Dragged into a worthless fight by the old worlds monarchy , they fought bravely, loyaly without question and paid the ultimate price . Win , lose or draw , they were among the bravest of the brave and our hats should be off to these courageous , good souls always. May they all rest in peace . Extreme condolences to the families at home who have suffered and grieved all these years til it was their time to leave this world. All of you , please rest in peace.

I love how Sam Hughes sounds like Professor Farnsworth from Futurama.

My grandfather ( 1st Siege Battery N.S) WAS A FORWARD artillery observer.... fought at ypres as a 19 yo

We had 'm twice. Those brave Canadians. And they managed to concure the enemy twice to! Thanks to them, we're free.

Served in Valcartier. Still in use today. Lovely location in the mountains n.e. Of Quebec City.

some of the real heroes (obviously the brave soldiers as well) were the cameramen and women who risked their lives on a daily basis in the thick of it all to get this footage to us for us to learn,understand and study for years to come......

I’m absolutely flabbergasted by this Sam Hughes. He’s basically leading his own backyard army, using his cronies to produce ill conceived and poorly designed weapons and blatantly refusing to follow any sort of orders or even train his troops in the actual combat they’ll be taking part in !!! He’s training them for a bloody picnic ! It’s a wonder that the Canadians ever left Canada ! It’s a miracle that they didn’t turn around and leave on seeing the Western Front after being so poorly trained…. They were ABSOLUTELY AMAZING troops and I’ve got EVEN MORE RESPECT and admiration for them after seeing their less than promising start in Canada. The only thing Sam Hughes got right was KEEPING THE CANADIANS TOGETHER instead of letting them be spread out and put into British and French Brigades. They were stronger TOGETHER and it gave them everything to fight for ! They were given the most awful weapons, the poorest training AND YET They managed to be some of the VERY BEST soldiers on the Battlefield anyone’s ever seen ! Thanks Canada 🇨🇦 - imagine what you would’ve achieved with the right weaponry and training ? Perhaps the war could’ve been over by Christmas ! I love the Menin Gate in Ypres, it’s very moving to hear the last post played nightly and read the many many names…

Sam Hughes was both a visionary and a crony in the truest form. He did create the Canadian Expeditionary Force which eventually became the Canadian Corps. He also tried to for-profit, promote an Infantry weapon in the Ross Rifle though suited in some was not the Rifle suited for Trench warfare. He promoted his lackeys to command until General Alderson organized the Corps with the help of the one Hughes promotion that paid off, Arthur Currie and based promotion on ability. Once that was done, Canadians were the most feared by German Troops in the second half of the war.

1:13:55 I stayed in residence at Sir Max Aitkens dorm in UNB New Brunswick! Had no idea he was so involved in the first world war!!!

Theres a lot of lessons in this documentary for our Canadian military procurement today. Glad we went with the p8 Poseidon

🇨🇦 The Canadians were the greatest heroes of the Great War. Far more so than ANY of the more recognised powers. Much love from America. 🇺🇸

His Faults Lie Gently (1969) by Alan R Capon . Biography about Sir Sam Hughes was/is a very good read.

My grandpa was a sniper in the 108 Ontario Regiment. Lost his eye on a hill assault as assistant Lewis gunner from s schrapnel potato masher, Lived a good and clean life,

13:24 'The maple leaf forever' was written by a member of the Queen's own Rifles of Toronto three years after the beginning of WW1 it would never have been heard during the Boer War.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

GO CANADA

It’s amazing how resistant the Canadians were against The Gas compared to most other allied forces. Was that Mustard Gas?

Eternal gratitude.

Very good documentary. Respect from Serbia, dear WW1 allies. Liberate your country from liberal politicians, be again heroic nation! Rest in peace and thanks for your service, Canadian fallen soldiers!

Trivia: the Ontario city (town back then) of Berlin changed its name to Kitchener (Kitchener-Waterloo today).

Nice old black & white, grainy film footage. So evocative. #Excellent

Good on Hughes for standing up to Kitchener. Other colonies had there troops broken up.

620,000 men mobilized voluntarily is impressive, but why keep repeating that this was the largest ever volunteer army raised. The 2.5 million strong WW2 British Indian army was by quite a large margin.

YOUR ALL SCOTS. (WHEN APART FROM THE FRENCH! THAT THEY THINK THEY ARE FRENCH.) RESPECT .

Nice commercials! What are those little clips in between?

The Ross rifle killed more men who pulled the trigger than who they were aiming at. The Ross rifle was a joke even to the point that the men would throw it away and grab the enemies weapons

Try and squeeze in a few more ads!!!

wasn't curry the brains behind the successful takin of Vimy ridge ? he was a star . one of the few well planned successes.

Apperantly the Ross although it completely sucked as a combat infantry weapon but proved to be an excellent sniper rifle.

This is a fine documentary, but it has some strange mistakes. The narration consistently calls the PPCLI “Princess Patricia’s Canadian Infantry”. Alexis Helmer’s rank is pronounced “Lootenant”. Paul Gross is heard early on referring to a Montreal regiment as the “Carbonieres de Montreal”. I have no idea what he thought he was saying. “Carabiniers” maybe.

amazing video!

My main essay this semester I wrote on Vimy Ridge. I learned quiet a bit about the Canadian Corps and was surprised to learn that one of the reasons quiet a few Canadian historians dismiss Vimy Ridge is because those who took it were units of the Corps that were made up mostly of British born Canadians and not natural born Canadians.

Sam Hughes was a mental case

One of my great uncles born in usa ran away & enlisted in Canadian army the usa was not yet involved

Ottawa is home!

does anyone know the name of the intro melody - very restful

Valeu!

I love Canadians but I feel they’re still treated like colonials by the english. If England gets entangled in a war, there go the canadians to die for a country that is not theirs. Sad.

1:15:13 onwards seems so crazy to have captured live on film. The German unit almost blown to pieces, but looks like they all escaped..

Ww3 is coming just as fast just as furious and then the stone age

All these records but none of the colonies who experienced the exact same horrors, they were officially cannon fodder. There aren't even any pictures of them wounded, no war memorials NOTHING. The European soldiers felt that they were just going to their deaths how did the Algerians feel for 4 years? Maybe if so many young men didn't die, maybe they could have done something positive for them. Its just so deplorable that their experiences,their lives were just thrown away

"A ghastly new weapon" was that pun? I hope not.

Brave men

"How one man LED..." would be the correct spelling.

More meat for the meatgrinder Gen. Haig

Canadian Newfoundland 1915 Gallipoli war campaign 19 september suvla bay extraction they withdrew peninsula coribou hill 🇨🇦

Canadians were as bold and brave as Americans,they would have fought for their own right to rule their military , instead of kidding up until 1982

‘Led’, not ‘lead’. Jeez.

hope people will understand more the Canadians French . je me souvien

49:14 That has to be WWII footage, surely? That looks like some kind of anti-tank gun.

My great grandfather fought with the Canadian dragoons

Canadians had the best Attack Divisions of that whole slaughter. Most victories of the war, Best General, Sir Arthur Currie, no Army can match there wining record ! Fact.... not bad for a Country only 50 year's old, the key to there Army's success, the Canadians had no class issues like the British, rich sons became Captains when they knew nothing of war, rich and sons who had a rich father became an officer,, again with no military experience ! The Canucks believed that ALL were equal and rank would be earned on the Battle field, not because Daddy was rich or a Lord in Parliament , which is only right ! and you can see there success by this simple idea, All Men Are Created Equal ! as we say in the States.

Here we see the first couruption in with the ROSS rifle wich was facink not good, it jam when heated, shame how meany life was lost doe to the bead, rifle. But soldiers can be replace.

I need the intro music, name?

I read some WWI material. . During WWI (great war was used for the Napoleonic wars) Australian made up 7% of the allies army. They captured 27% of all land taken, 25% of all prisoners . Monash showed the British how to win the war ,but the British historians make excuses for Haig. The last successful cavalry charge was carried out at Beersheba.

Great upload. I've never swotted the Canadian WWI Military Involvement before, though am not ignorant on it either. Given it was drawn in as support for the Union in IT'S support of [amongst others] France, it was surely unlikely Canada wasn't going to throw everything it could muster at it. I particularly like the fact this covers the failures/failings in some aspects. Some History movies edit/redact/propagandise yet still, over a Century on. Britain was ready, for sure. The problem was, it was ready mostly to occupy [plenty of places elsewhere too] and defend itself, rather than having been ready to invade already invaded lands with heavily prepared defences and equity of arms. If what became the 'Allies' had actually been prepared for such a European counter invasion, I think it would have been a much shorter war. The Somme establishes how narrow minded the [Military, as well as government in this case] Brits were, arrogant with the lives of hundreds of thousands of recruit's lives too. People will look back in a century from now and know where we went right and wrong in [SARS CoV 2 / Covid 19] 2019, 2020 [especially] and 2021 with a different kind of global invasion. WE, were 'prepared' for pandemic, WE [particularly Britain / UK] screwed it up nevertheless. WWI was the war that was supposed to end all. Maybe the war that will finally make humanity re-learn that we should all be considerate and respectful and grateful for our visit to this plane of existence we can enjoy so much without wars every day somewhere such as we have now. #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

Sorry there was no offical alliance between Serbia and Russa at the start of the war. Thats like saying Italy had a alliance with France when the war started.

Can you make Filipino-American war pls

I’d love to tell you if this was a good documentary, but with the constant ads for dangerous holistic medications and an ad which started with someone screaming which just about made me deaf, every two to five minutes, I think this was a good documentary on Walt Disney

the Ross Rifle and the Shield Shovel etc, the British Empire should have not sent one soldier to the continent

What was the deal with the helmet of the Germans, so cartoonish, easy to spot. Easy to spot, pointy, weird... Could anyone tell me why it was made?

So General *Curry* was cool, while General *Snow* was not - interesting

An old fashion army against modern artillery, a lesson we stupid humans had to learn.

EHEMM...!...Very Polite.....My mum was there in 1930 as a very young person....She loved all you guys..! ..EHEMM not very polite (guys).....sorry,,,I meant people...!.

Was imperial making ammunition during ww1

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P.S.W.C.Conservative....Look here Sir...I have absolutely NO idea what yew mean...!

Perhaps the dumbest and most useless war. What a waste!

14:46 and 15:05 sooo.... physical training included boy band dancing and duck duck goose? oh those wacky canucks. but i see they have nothing on this happy go lucky german 17:16

What a tragic waste of lives. IMHO, WWII and WWI are the same conflict. The Treaty of Versailles imposed on an already starving Germany only served to embitter Germany with a desire to set things "right". The genius of the Marshall Plan was to rebuild Europe, gain steadfast allies and helped provide the US with a large export market for US goods and services. The sacrifice of the so-called "dominion" troops, gave those nations a desire for greater independence as nations with independent foreign policy. We don't measure our individual losses by the teaspoon. NZ stands out as bearing an obscene and unimaginable burden from such a small nation. I sourced the following from respective national records. 10% of NZ's population served in the Great War from which a staggering 16% died. ANZAC bound two nations as one. CAN 8M Total Sent: 619,000 Killed: 59,500 Proportion of Population: 7.74% Killed as % of Total Sent: 9.6%% AUS 5M Total Sent: 417,000 Killed: 60,000 Proportion of Population: 8.34% Killed as % of Total Sent: 14.4% NZ 1M Total Sent: 100,000 Killed: 16,000 Proportion of Population: 10.00% Killed as % of Total Sent: 16.00%

The Western Front

Best général Arthur Currie for Canadian army we salute you

WHY IS EVERYTHING BEING SCREWED UP BY THESE ..D A M........ .....INTERRUPYIONS.????????????????????????????????????????????????

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We are ruled by clever dangerous manipulative people. They have made us proud to do their bidding. The sons of Canada 🇨🇦 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Australia 🇦🇺 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ireland 🇮🇪 . We are the children of the mist , shame on us.

The word "led" is extinct.

Canadians and Australians, the best soldiers of the west (With the Scots) of the 1st and 2nd world war. When I see how the English and American commands regard them.... When they didn't even come up to their ankles!.

britain always expected its old colonies to fight for britain, but in the case of america, britain had to asked and to some extent beg for american help.

CANADIANS ARE BRITISH. WITH A POLITE ACCENT. 👍

DO YOUR DUTY? ? climb over the dead. T I AM RIGHT ( 30 KM ? BEHIND YOU ? REGARDS haig they ? are sure to run out of machine gun ammo.

They volunteered ? Really ? They must have feared for their country. But why ? How did propaganda work in Canada ?

Lol hundreds run from one man

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