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Cheryl takes a sombre journey to the fields of the Battle of the Somme, and learns of her Great Grandfather's bravery. Before leaving Cheryl visits a local memorial to pay her respects.
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@harryedwards9391 2 года назад

Cheryl seems like a very genuine person hope she finds true happiness along the way

@stewartcameron1516 2 года назад

A lovely touch from Cheryl to remember the fallen soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry

@katiedonnelly862 2 года назад

I'm doing my ancestry and discovered my great grandfather died in this war also,same place on 9th April 1917,,my grandmother was 3 month old when he died so she never knew her dad,,sad really,but we are here because of these heroes.god bless them all,xxxx

@sounsure9108 4 года назад

I was listening to a vet ( 99yr old) of world war 11 I was struck how much ptsd has shaped society and how different fathers and husband would of been over the last hundred years had war been avoided

@Gogs126 3 года назад

And then imagine how different the world would be if all those people hadn't died too. Entire generations of young men just wiped out. Imagine what they could have brought to the world? The loss is absolutely tremendous and we still bear the results.

@richardmullins1883 2 года назад

100%

@billydeluca6776 5 лет назад

Our great grandfathers and grandfathers who fought in both world wars, are considered, by me, to be the greatest generations that have ever lived. The bravery and sacrifices they made so that we all can live free, will never be equalled. By the way, Cheryl looks lovely... as usual.

@t.jackson1655 5 лет назад

Billy DeLuca Wise words, I will take notes 😊❤️

@401rhody7 5 лет назад

Could not agree more. London and Paris are minority white and the French and British are going to be minorities in their own homelands within 100 years. But hey, at least you’re not speaking German!

@mccombe25 2 года назад

Bravery? They were lied to about the trenches, told bs that it wasn't that bad. No internet back then remember and a heartless government

@ritaking8827 Год назад

God Bless them! This is why freedom is so important. Once you lose it, this is how you get it back.

@Marcel_Audubon Год назад

That kind of veteran worship is what leads to the next war Beautifying "greatest" generations is just stoopid. They were just boys forced into a stoopid, stoopid, bloody death machine. Stop trying to enoble war.

@lewthrasher4194 3 года назад

Thank you for doing this Cheryl. So many stories of war we know nothing about. Many People today have no idea what the true meaning of sacrifice.

@WhispersFromTheDark Год назад

Rest in peace all who are buried there, and rest in peace Lcp Ridley, you are not forgotten.

@crazydave53 2 года назад

My Grandfather was killed at The Somme, he was also in the DLIs, so thanks for this give me a better insighton what happened to my grandfather

@MarijeK 4 года назад

I love how good the voice-over is with the French names. Sounds really good.

@carltanner9065 Год назад

An amazing family history! I hope Cheryl has continued researching her family history because it doesn't stop at what she's been able to find. How far back can she go and what will she find? My grandfather (Dad's dad), various cousins and grand uncles fought in WW1 and Dad, my uncles and various cousins in WW2. Cousins in Vietnam as well. My brother nearly ended up going there (Vietnam) only they abolished national service about 2 months before he was due to be called up! It's sad and amazing how war has touched the lives of so many families. I'm glad that Cheryl got the chance to find out about her past. I hope she passes it down to her children and tells them of the amazing story of her family😊

@kaystewart1220 5 лет назад

What a lovely thing to do....always wanted to go to the Somme to pay respects

@chrismccartney8668 Год назад

My grandfather never spoke to my gran about Gallipoli ever, but spoke to me the oldest grandson of the horrors, he didn't want burden my Nan with such unspeakable horrors.

@HumanLinkCenter 4 года назад

my respect to all those who come before us

@kziel7811 4 года назад

I have seen Amanda and Cheryl's heritage and some of Emilia Fox so far. You know what I discovered apart from excitement and emotion while watching the episodes that WDYTYA does not only gave the information of family descendants but some world history as well. This is the reason why I love WDYTYA 👍👍

@deniseg-hill1730 4 года назад

My Fathers Father who I never knew died in 1925 when my Dad was 3 years old as a result of injuries sustained in the 1st WW. My Grandmother never got a War Widows Pension until she was 76 years old in 1969 and the Social Security Dept tried to oppose it at a Tribunal. Fortunately Lord Harlech the Presiding judge told the SSD rep to be quiet, he said you know nothing about how people suffered and he said if it was up to him he would have backdated it right back to 1925 but he was only allowed to backdate it 3 years.

@martasorangeberry 4 года назад

Interesting. You write a paragraph of the grandmother's struggle because she couldn't get the pension, but beyond merely mentioning the grandfather that was a veteran, you have nothing to say about him.

@deniseg-hill1730 4 года назад

@@martasorangeberry I never knew him and my Gran never spoke about him much except to say he was hardworking and very strict. He was sick but pretended he was well so he could get a job to pay the bills his brothers and sister never talked much about him either. As he died when my Dad was 3 my Dad doesn't remember much about him, Only the struggles his Mother my Grandmother had.

@alkante2962 4 года назад

As I said before, an extremely touching and interesting episode as well as are the personal stories it reminds us. It is where our stories and simple people's history make the great History. Thank you so much for sharing yours. And thank to this program and this young lady.

@alkante2962 4 года назад

I'd like to add that we know that WW1 was a carnage, every village in France and every family touched and devastated. sometimes 2 or 3 sons killed during the Great War wasn't a rarety, no wonder that monuments to the Dead of the Great War were erected in the 20' and this particular war called the Great War and a butchery. The demography of a mostly rural country deeply affected, and people appaled when went the 2nd war wich was just the third war in 70 years and just 20 years after WW1 ...

@williamthomas7509 4 года назад

She's mistaken PTSD was known during WW I - they called it shell shock. But yes over time we have learned more about treating it and what is needed long term.

@GenieGin13 4 года назад

there's still a distinction though. they're not quite the same. the guys with shell shock is more so describing their body's physical reaction from combat such as shaking/shivering, fearful demeanor, automatically preparing for impact of something explosive. almost quite literally, shock from the shells. if you think about being in a loud environment and constant shells landing for months on end and then these guys return home, just expected to behave normal with no understanding what's happening to them mentally. let alone the people around them who have no clue what war entails. now in modern day, we have an expanded definition leading to what's now known PTSD which delves into the emotional aftereffects and how stress and trauma leaves deep effects on their mental health. this is the part that is missing from the WWI era understanding of shell shock.

@mugsev 3 года назад

Perhaps she's referring to the full extent and impact PTSD had and the care required

@richardmullins1883 2 года назад

Shell shock isn't ptsd

@GenieGin13 4 года назад

i feel like she went into this intentionally ignoring the olga/rene maternal line. olga's name within this otherwise very english or british family would've been a great point of interest for any genealogist. they even had a surname burton to possibly look into. olga's mom, i would think, was definitely mixed heritage something

@sroy9789 3 года назад

She was Mrs. Burton, so already married I guess.

@mirabelmarisol 2 года назад

“European” names are British names. So-called European names are within the top 200 names for boys and girls going back centuries. In 1690, 'Ursula' is the 46th most popular name for a girl in England. ‘Mahala’ was an extremely popular name in 19th century England, surprisingly. Sites like britishbabynames have written before about the truly bizarre names British parents have given their children throughout history. My family included lol. Olga and Rene is nothing. Anyway, Edith Burton's maiden name was Sanders.

@RB-747 11 месяцев назад

Olga is actually not a very un-British name though

@maxwellmoore8424 2 года назад

I ❤ this young Lady even more now ,and yes . You Northern English, are made of tough stuff , THE RIGHT STUFF ✅,

@karmalkarn9770 5 лет назад

Beautiful

@JmeJ83 5 лет назад

She is a stunning woman

@TheMarman57 Месяц назад

A very good point raised is that it is only in past 10 years or so that attempts and protocols have been introduced to help front line soldiers transition from what they are faced with in theater, to life back home in some quiet suburb. Even transitioning from military life into civilian life can be really difficult. When your every working day is filled with the routine and discipline of military life, it runs through your veins. There is a part of training early on which deliberately seeks to "de-civilianise" new recruits, and indoctrinate a particular pattern of behavior and life codex. This becomes a blueprint for life, and it never leaves you. Post military, It can be advantageous, or equally destructive. You can't predict how it will affect each individual. It often depends on what that individual has experienced and how they cope with it psychologically.

@elee1086 4 года назад

Well done Lass! My grandfather served in US Army 353 Inf 1917-1919 western front.

@neilfranklin5644 2 года назад

Yes that was a good family history , so sad about the marriners dying so early in life but glad the soldier came back,

@gijsv8419 Год назад

I am stunned by her beauty

@jamesmcmurrough3811 5 лет назад

My great-great uncles were also in DLI and died. RIP

@rastra1321 4 года назад

James Mcmurrough my great Grandad too...RIP DLI Warriors. X 💔💔☺️😢

@lunarubyjon594 3 года назад

I have found a relative who joined the Durham Light Infantry under a false name as he was only 14. Thankfully he survived but I have a 14 year old son now and cannot imagine him going to war.

@maramicaa123 5 лет назад

Cant wait for her to come back, always herself and unique 😍

@leokorn1629 3 года назад

this is really hard to take to explore such past in the family. i hope in the future generations will explore better stories from the past.

@idziokracja4186 5 лет назад

Very nice story i got Jòzef grandpa too👍

@chrismccartney8668 Год назад

My grandfather fought at Gallipoli and later Iraq and Palestine. He never forgot his friends he lost in Gallipoli.

@wantingtolearn4729 5 лет назад

Cheryl you are one unique person. Very inspirational. And your healthy look is inspirational to be healthy. Very sweet, empathtic, and pretty inside and out from what I know.

@sylvester8004 4 года назад

♥️♥️♥️

@debbiesullivan8404 5 лет назад

Loving this with Cheryl very interesting x

@lchristy5949 3 года назад

What about Edith Anne.

@zombieholic 2 года назад

One of my ancestors was killed at Vimy Ridge.

@MK-hz2bn 3 года назад

Her accent sounds like a mix of Scottish and Irish

@amyw6808 2 года назад

It’s Geordie. She’s from Newcastle. It’s North East England. Tbf, at various points in history, it would have been within Scottish Borders, but no, it’s definitely England.

@bne1498 5 лет назад

Cheryl looks so beautiful

@etherealtb6021 Год назад

Being American, have no idea who this young lady is, but boy her family history is interesting!

@xxxxxx-tq4mw 2 месяца назад

With Cheryl’s family’s military background, should "My Girl" ever decide to do another series, she’d make a good squaddie.

@dragonfly686868 10 месяцев назад

When he said “exposed” - he really meant the pioneers literally were out there chancing their lives digging the trenches!?! My respects to all the solders fighting the Germans but damn it, I would have been pissed too if I was out there. My respects to all the solders that were there❤

@coopsevy5664 4 года назад

I wish I could do this.

@susanjackett9268 2 года назад

It can be hard, but most genealogy sites do special offers where one can get lots if very good documents and info. Ancestry usually do a NY offer, I'm on a year at half price at present and found a thru line to Henry 1st if France!

@sarahbrennan1342 2 года назад

I thought it was Priscilla Presley in the link photo

@TheMarman57 Месяц назад

Did he say ; "this is the village of Gillymont" the actual pronunciation of which is more like " Gooymaw". Why are we so poor at foreign languages? It's not THAT difficult to learn how to pronounce these words properly, or even near properly but to not even try - and these people are qualified experts in........something.

@speshul7525 3 года назад

At least the American revolution , civil war and the Indian wars, the battlefields, or parts are safe and cherished. What in Europe they would do that, maybe they would not have so many wars

@cathydodd1224 Год назад

Who is Cheryl???

@susanjackett9268 2 года назад

Cheryl may find further back what we did. From East End London up to Toll Square mariners? Then way back into northern gentry ,then nobility! Mind boggling, I reckon many Northern families may be linked into royalry , it's just finding the name.

@lilianmalone8647 3 года назад

I notice she consistently comments on how handsome etc she is absolutely promoting this ancestry in line with her own life

@ninjacat4929 3 года назад

I think that’s only natural , nothing wrong with noticing handsome people in the family . She is beautiful herself !

@dragonflyhill5748 2 года назад

She looks like him.

@grimmlight4541 4 года назад

Should of just stuck with Shell Shock. None of this soft PC nonsense like Battle Fatigue or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder BS. Shell Shock is a Hard and Brutal phrase that screams attention, which would of got more veterans the attention they needed in later wars. God I have such respect for those guys.

@BernardProfitendieu 4 года назад

It's not all about shells exploding, dullard ... get off your high horse

@q8gyj26s 4 года назад

Grimm Light Nitpicking freak

@libbyringo8419 2 года назад

No "shells" today, and the PTSD reveals that what happened during a war (or any other stressful event) still impacts the person in the present time. Seems silly to quibble over terms or labels when the point is that some people carry over the horror of their past lives to their current one. This impacts the spouses and other family members as well.

@jillybe1873 2 года назад

So what happened to you? Talk to someone about it. You are not alone.

@minervasjourney 4 года назад

I'm not too good with accents but why does Cheryl speak with a bit of an Indian accent? Just speaks different than everyone else?

@86upsmaya 4 года назад

Indian ? Isnt it Scottish ?

@suelaing8306 4 года назад

Geordie it's the accent people from the Newcastle upon Tyne area of the northeast of England have

@paikiabandboy 4 года назад

@@suelaing8306 is it welsh?

@MarijeK 4 года назад

No, like she says, Newcastle is in the north east of England. Wales is a country in the south west. This is how a Geordie accent sounds.

@alyssas9099 4 года назад

it’s a Geordie accent! so typical has a stress on vowels, to make it sound a bit “sing songy”. there’s lots of different accents in the UK! hers comes from the northeast, Newcastle.