Horror In The Mud: What Was It Like To Fight At Ypres? | The Last Voices of World War One | Timeline 

He’s was 100% spot on they just kept the common ppl split along ethnic and religious lines and they sit back and use us like pawns on the chess board

Literally this

"It's Not the Ones Who Give the Orders, Who Fight and Die-! But the Young Men Like You and I."

@@samuelcorbin3694 'He's a fine fellow', said Harry to Jack, as they marched up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both with his plan of attack. And my great grandfathers favorite: Far far from Ypres I long to be, where German snipers can't get at me. Damp is my dug out, cold are my feet. Waiting for whizz bangs to send me to sleep.

I believe that sentiment was so common, amongst the men, you can hear it stated by either Tjaden or Krupp in the book All Quiet on the Western Front.

It was a common experience for soldiers arriving at the front to be transported by train. They were put into goods wagons marked in French “Horses 8 Men 40”. Just imagine the sound of several hundred facetious young men making animal noises!

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i feel like that's a pretty natural human reaction tbh, soldier mindset is a strange and interesting psychology

@@jonathanlewis453I’m married to an infantry combat vet, you bet I can imagine that 😂

Got out just in time too. 2010 was the beginning push into the end times. 2001 started the trajectory. 2010 initiated thurst. 2020+ is the end of the play, the coda. Goodluck all of you

​@@Lucky-sh1dm How do you know this and can you point out any evidence that you can share with all of us unenlightened ones or are we perhaps ",sheeple " while you of course are that good bit smarter? Anyway go on and tell us about how and why you know we are in the end days ?

@@paulflah4562spot on

Pretty cool to have lived in 3 centuries ✌️💯❤️

@@MIXTAB1 definitely awesome. I wonder how many ppl throughout history can boast that

Heaven aint real brother they died for nothing and ended up not existing and not living out their lives rip

Sadly it will never learn.

Most of them didn't care they was going to war! As they thought it was the right thing to do for their country's. This mindset passed over both war's. How many to day would fight for their country and freedom?

Have you seen the one on Free Documentaries. Very touching to see the point of view of both those who fought, and those who waited at home.

​@@chriscollins550 Spot on, who in their right mind would fight for a govt that didn't give a 💩 about them and cared more about foreigners than their own people..

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Rarely came back the same... All countries lost so many generations of people and probably some great men who would have changed the world for the better

This will get you. This wasn't even the most deadly wars or even had the highest number of deaths. Sad thing is the boar war's had more deaths and that's still not even close to the deadliest war in history.

That a man was still brought to tears about friends lost over 80 years prior is gut wrenching. Some wounds never heal.

​@@chriscollins550 In what way was the boar war worse in terms of deaths? Can you provide facts? 👍

@@nelliedownsouth2316 more people did in the boar war's then in ww1.

Are there any ghost stories?

I used to live there about 10 years ago, and when I was coming home one late evening, just after getting off the motorway, I remember driving towards Ypres, I noticed a vehicle in front of me, very slow, like a carriage or horse-driven cart, and with very little lighting, only a tiny red lantern or something on the back.I though what idiot drives a horse and cart at this time of day (must have been around half past eleven p.m.) and I prepared to hit the brakes, but it was strange as even though I wasn't travelling very fast, I kind of "hit" that cart, but at the same time, it dissolved into thin air as if it never had been there in the first place. It was like driving through an apparition. I was totally shocked. I had stopped by then and looked all around, but there was absolutely nothing there. Another one was in my house in the town centre, I used to run a B&B there but by that time, I had stopped and the house was empty. I slept in the annex to the back. I was in my room and had just switched off my lights and had another look outside onto the backyard and back of the house with the windows of the staircase visible. I could see a figure walking up the stairs, wearing something like a cloak or rain sheet over his shoulders. He was dragging his feet and seemed very tired. I waited for him to appear on the next floor window, but nothing. Needless to say, I was the only person on the premises at that time, no guests, no visitors. And I remember that guy like it was yesterday. Ypres is full of ghosts.

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 The cart story is very chilling. Is the place still very isolated? I mean, is it still villages and farms? Did you felt scared at that time or just brush it aside as Mere tricks of mind?

I never felt scared at all. The road where it happened is a regular, at daytime quite frequented road that connects Ypresand Zonnebeke. Tyne Cot, the biggest Commenwealth cemetery of the Great War, is nearby as well. I went there at night as well and it felt really peaceful. Unlike other cemeteries which might feel eerie. I had a strong spiritual connection to the entire area from the first day I got there, there's a sadness hanging about in places, but nothing angry or evil.@@kaycey7361

​@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Genuinely no offense meant but maybe you soul tell your doctor 😉😉

The two world wars effected my family in the same way as yours, it is not something other people understand.

My great grandfathers, their siblings and my grandfathers and their siblings fought in ww1 and ww2 on front lines. Two died at the somme, the rest wounded multiple times but made it. I always thought my family had bad genes and were full of bad men but it turns out they had ptsd and depression from fighting. It still affects our family today. I used to resent them but now as an adult I understand and respect what they did. I'm amazed and proud of then actually. I'm also very angry that they were tricked and sent into the meat grinder.

Pawns in a game of Chess😡The flower if England face down in the Mud What a bloody waste Lest we forget.

Just about very rich who make money from war.

15000... All names, all human, all had relatives. 1 city.

Ex-Sapper did a tour in the Falklands. While there went through a divorce/separation and had a meltdown. Tour was 6 months. Was around 94 Horrible to think that could have been punishable by death if that was still a thing

@@kitkatfisher7018 yes the british army was terrible to its soldiers..like russians are to their soldiers even now

A few took their own lives after returning home. i know of 4 in one of my local cemeteries and there will be many more than 4.

Trying to understand the constant weight of fire is difficult, when opposing sides in basically fixed positions, can fire tens of millions of shells at each other. I had the privilege of knowing a WW1 veteran, he was a family friend and was like a great grandad to me, the only time he talked about the western front was the mud and the lice, but nothing about the actual combat.

Some even went back to fight again in ww2. Says alot about these men who gave everything for are freedom that we show very little respect for now.

Not the first war, photographs were taken during the American Civil War 1861 - 1865 but yes it was the first war where film was used of actual battles

@nigeljames5622 I didn't think of that, to be honest. Well remembered !

I fell in love with Harry ❤

This is not correct - the American civil war, 1861-1865, was the first war to be photographed vividly, accurately, and at pace with real time events. The effect was SHOCKING on the population and on how they felt about what was happening. While I will agree that widespread photographs of WWI were hugely and rightly impactful, it’s not true that it was the first time this took effect. That being said, I want to be sure to acknowledge that your comment was clearly intended to be respectful and from the right place and you made other good points.

Not pointless.

@@hmq9052 How so? The whole of WWI was pointless. Britain should've stayed out of it.

​@@StarshipToMarsimpossible read your history

@@bertiewooster3326 I'm perfectly aware of the history.

@@StarshipToMars Then you will know that we were caught by treaties and could not have ""stayed out""

Thanks for sharing your experience. I’ll eventually make it over there to visit these areas as you did.

You describe this so well. Are you a writer?

@@dominiclondesborough3222 not yet. But man, I do have some stories to tell. Maybe that's why my writings on youtube are becoming more and more extensive. I think I'm accidentally practicing to become a writer.

The most heroic men never came back, from any war

Well yea, think about the German soldier doing the same if not hungrier. For a bitter defeat. Whole conflict is a tragedy on all sides

WWI should never have been fought- ot was propaganda based. What did it achieve? A lousy peace that caused the next war.

Just goes to show how poisonous and destructive ultra-nationalism and demonisation of foreigners is.

Forgotten wars.🙏😢.If you ask a student now.......They know nothing about WW1 WW2 Korean War,Falklands.Viet Nam,Desert Storm ad infinitum They maybe Know a little about Hamas/Israel conflict as it's current. But whoever said Lest We Forget must have been joking....😢😡🇦🇺🇬🇧 Ex teacher😁

Too right, and it’s happening again. What right does Putin have to send all those young Russians to the slaughter and to slaughter. Scary how countries can get caught up in a wave of violence.

Of course they don't. They get to sit out the whole war. Each war.

General Falkenhayn on Russian mobilisation in 1914 (giving his government a chance to declare war while claiming self defence): "Even if we perish, at least it was beautiful."

The best part is those leaders are all family members. Literally one family caused so much death in the first half of the 20th century.

@@ianleavitt8333 Not just the royal leaders like the Czar and Kaiser (George V was a constitutional monarch and the decision for war was made by parliament) but political leaders too. Like Bethmann Hollweg the unelected chancellor of Germany, Helmuth Von Moltke the German military chief of staff, the Austrian foreign minister Leopold Berchtold, and the Austrian chief of staff Conrad Von Hotzendorf.

My Grandfather was gassed with his unit while they were building a bridge over a creek ,the gas was on the water in like a mist.Poor fellows we're standing in the water. Their skin blistered.He suffered with that until he died in his 80s.

One off the saddest sights of my life was at the Imperial War Museum, where John Singer Sargent's epic painting "Gassed" shows what he himself saw: a line of haggard young men with bandaged eyes , helplessly clinging to one another as they are led to an aid station. Respect for the men who served is also paid by those who demand an end to war, and I write this as a veteran of the Army Medical Corps.

Grand dad finally passed in late 70's from dropping a Sunday roast on his foot, went septic.

She was just one of a legion of women forced into that situation. I met one or two on starting work in the 80’s. It was an aspect of the time.

That is a common saying but not really accurate unless of course you are talking about political leaders. 78 British generals were killed and the more junior officers had pretty high mortality rates.

@@Ken-fh4jc that is true, I don’t mean the officers that died leading their men in attacks. I mean the higher ups that were so willing to just throw young lives away in the hope of maybe getting a different result from the same attack

The Vristish were very concerned with casualties. They definitely deserve flak like everyone else involved. But if you look at the tactics from 1914-1918 they really do change a lot

It's bad enough losing a friend when you know full well they were having a good time. I can't imagine THAT.

They should have stayed at home, everyone would have been much better off.

really? stayed at home till the fight lands on the doorstep? Do not take away the bravery of those who went forward, defended the invaded lands and potentially the land they came from.

@@paulellam6926 There was no danger of a German invasion of Great Britain in 1914, the efforts of the UK should have been in mediating a peace agreement between the belligerent powers. As it was the whole of Europe stumbled into a massively destructive war that had no good outcome at all, it lead to an even more destructive war 20 years later and was the beginning of the decline of western civilization.

Corpulent Generals safe behind lines😡 Historys lessons drowned in red wine! Sting 1985 Childrens Crusade