I visited the grave of Willie McBride - Green Fields Of France - Authuille Military Cemetery, France

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Who was Willie McBride in real life?
The Willie McBride who most fits the description, is Private William McBride from Lislea, Armagh, who was killed on April 22nd, 1916. His grave is in Authuile Military Cemetery in northern France. He was with the 9th battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
I visit the graveyard, pay my respects and share some thoughts.
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@petebony3093 Год назад

A very moving video, thanks for making and posting it. The Green Fields of France is one of my favourite songs to play and sing which makes this video even more special to me. As the song says "But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land, the countless white crosses stand mute in the sand" and after seeing the actual graveyard that is so true. Thank you!!!!

@craig-duncan Год назад

Cheers Pete.

@trevjen1000 Год назад

Just outside Cambridge is an American Air Force graveyard. It's just the same, rows of countless white crosses and a wall with the names of the thousands of service men who never returned from a mission. Well worth a visit.

@thomasshepard6030 Год назад

@@trevjen1000 6.600 a month American airmen lost their lives during WW2 220 a day in total over 40.000 horrific numbers that was just over Europe

@Seamus-ij2ze 9 месяцев назад

As an Irish man this song always hit my heart. The futility of war

@stinkeye460 Год назад

I'm an American and an old man of 70 now. I remember my great uncles and others that fought in the Great War. I remember one great uncle that lived alone in an Airstream caravan who just sat all the rest of his life drinking and staring off into space. I wasn't allowed to talk to him. Maybe if I was his life might have changed. I had uncles that fought in WW2 and some that were scarred for life from their experiences. One was a POW in a German camp and was beaten regularly. I remember as a young boy centennial of the American Civi9l War and the interest generated by it. I was disappointed in the lack of interest in America for the end of the Great War. I believe there will be even less interest in the centennial of the end of WW2. Thankfully I won't be around for that. Sadly very few are interested in the past and will suffer the same fate from their ignorance.

@gator1959 Год назад

Exactly, we keep doing the same thing over and over again. To paraphrase a song lyric " when will we ever learn.... "

@leonardmcneill7594 11 месяцев назад

Lead by a wonderful Ulster man, Victor, from the Creagh Road, area Belfast. We met Victor at the Ulster Tower. All three of us were there on motorcycles. Victor looked like a real "Hells Angle" but what a nice guy. If if hadn't been for Victors knowledge we may not have found Authuile cemetery Victor had been coming to the Somme, on his m/cycle, every year for the last 11 years and his knowledge of the Somme was phenomenal. Many thanks Victor. A pleasure to have met you. Best wishes Leonard McNeill

@ronaldstewart-pk2tt Год назад

Tribute to the songwriter....a Scotsman who lived in Adelaide after leaving Scotland , THANK YOU ERIC BOGLE for this and many great songs

@nctpti2073 2 месяца назад

Because every soldier died stupidly and should be forgotten, not honored? Just the "Weary old heroes of a forgotten war" over whom the young people ask why people are marching and Mr. Bogle asks himself the same question. The Green Fields of France is very similar, mourning but also deriding. He wrote both in the 70's, long after WWI, not to mention WWII. He, himself, fought in no wars and only knew WWII literally as an infant (he was born in 1944). Would it have been better to just let Germany conquer France in WWI? Would Germany have stopped at France if the British and then the Americans had not stood against them in WWI or WWII? Would the Soviet Union have managed to stand alone if the western allies had simply abandoned both mainland Europe and Africa? Over in Russia, the Tsar handled WWI so badly that it lead directly into the Russian Revolution. Would that have gone somehow easier on Russia, if the British Commonwealth and the US had stayed out, as Mr. Bogle seems to think they should have? Wars are something to always try to avoid, but sadly, and ironically, sometimes, one must actually fight back to end them.

@donallen1384 Год назад

I’ve heard the Green Fields of France by the Fury’s….. as a Military Veteran, I thank you for sharing this video…. May your God go with you.

@GraveVisitations Год назад

Nice video I never knew about his grave until now. I'm from Ireland myself 🇮🇪

@brianwhite8593 Год назад

Yeah same here 🇮🇪 but I dislike that the Irish are never recognised for their sacrifices even though over 50.000 served even in this video no mention that he was Irish just Australian and English mentioned like they fought alone without other nations like India and many other colonial peoples

@GraveVisitations Год назад

@@brianwhite8593 if you like Irish cemeteries and graveyards plus history check me out 🇮🇪👍

@Team-fabulous 6 месяцев назад

I disagree with you. The only people that don't recognise the sacrifices the Irish made in the great war is the Irish themselves.. There are monuments in Northern France commemorating the Irish sacrifices.. @@brianwhite8593

@kristinaF54 5 месяцев назад

@@brianwhite8593 The British have a way of disrespecting the Irish, sure didn't they try to rob Ireland of its language and culture by making it illegal during the Penal Laws? Every Irishman or Irishwoman has a duty to remind the forgetful Brit of their rotten past even when their modern history books try to rewrite their history making them out to be the fucking heroes and bastions of civilisation.

@andymanson Год назад

Tremendous job Craig. Thanks so much for producing this. I have a long history with this song but have never seen the gravestone. I'll visit.

@kenmcnamara8278 Год назад

Hi Craig, Thank you for a very interesting and moving video. My wife and i were in Normandy about 7 years ago and we visited the large Commenwealth War Cemetary from the 2nd World War in Bayeux, near Caen. Die Cemetary is sptlessly looked after and well worth visiting if you are in the neighborhood. I particularly found it very moving as we walked through the endless rows of graves of so many young men.

@fulanichild3138 9 месяцев назад

I had the same experience in Kanchanaburi, Thailand 25 years ago. I don't generally like visiting war memorials as I think they glorify war, and war is not glorious. But I had some time to kill and there was an immaculately kept WWII cemetery nearby, so I wandered among the headstones idly reading a few. And then I realized that almost all of these guys were 18, 20, 22 years old, and I began to pay attention. This one cemetery held hundreds upon hundreds of teenagers and men in their twenties; people just starting life. As the enormity of it hit me, my eyes welled and all I could think was, what a terrible, terrible waste.

@miken235 Год назад

Fair play to you- this is something I hope to do in my lifetime (and great editing by the way!)

@johnphelps9788 Месяц назад

Thankyou for the post. I never knew the song was inspired by a real person. I first heard it when sung by the very well known Australian country singer Slim Dusty and am moved by it each time I listen. Eric Bogle also wrote 'the band played waltzing Matilda' which is also a very moving song about the futility of war. If you haven't heard it it's also on RU-vid sung by the man himself, Eric Bogle.

@davidrixon3549 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for mentioning poziers and the Australian s. I was literally in tears when i saw young willies grave and the hundred behind him. Thank you so much for showing us this grave. From Australia.

@752brickie 5 месяцев назад

My Great Uncle Harry was with the American forces in WW1. He drove a caisson hauling the she;;s to the Artillery. He told my dad there were many times during the heavy shelling he jumped off and crawled under his horse !!! As far as I know that was the only thing he ever said about the war to anyone !!! He was also gassed but lived to the age of 96 ! I cannot imagine the poor soldiers on both sides fighting the trench warfare with the gas etc.? Thank you for the wonderful video !!! I was hoping to come to France some day to go to the military cemeteries !

@aw8585 Год назад

Thank you for sharing this

@Thomasjjohnston Год назад

Willie Mcbride a true Ulster hero 🇬🇧

@thomasshepard6030 Год назад

A whole generation of young men damed forever god bless everyone of them

@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much , Craig. I think this song becomes more heartbreaking to those of us whose fathers fought in the world wars once they pass away. RIP Dad.

@letitiafinlay3905 Год назад

Thank you so very much for sharing this video with us, I heard this song many years ago, it brought me to tears, and still get very emotional when I hear it, I agree with the sentiments of the song, War is futile, but unfortunately we haven't learned the lesson yet, when will we ever learn.😢😮😂😮.

@peterToml1inson Год назад

My father fought in the First World War on the Somme. But he survived. (to the glorious dead. Cenotaph.) His comment to me. There is nothing glorious about being dead. He was under aged at the time. And he also fought in the Second World War. Only this time he was rescued by Maltese fishermen. I AM 84 years old. And I survived the Second World War.

@karlineg6159 8 месяцев назад

My dad and I visited Authuille cemetery last summer and were very moved. This song is so wonderful and sad.

@user-vj7sj5gr9l 4 месяца назад

I’d like to visit Thiepval .My great uncles name is on the monument there he was 24 and died at the Somme.He was in the 8th East Yorkshire Regiment.Fantastic song about the futility of war.

@seanswilson 7 месяцев назад

A fitting tribute to the fallen, and to the titular character in the song, a song that brings me to tears each and every time. Even reading the words does the same. My grandfather served from 1914 to 1917 and fought at the Somme. He was one of the lucky ones, having been invalided out in late 1917 with a gunshot and shrapnel wounds. I never met the man as he died three months after I was born. Over Christmas, I heard for the first time that later in life when he had a family, he was adamant that none of his sons would join the armed forces. With upwards of 40 million dead and wounded (military and civilian), WWI taught mankind nothing.

@annehoward5303 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for this lovely video, I have loved this song for many years, I always wondered about Willie McBride's grave, I wanted to know he was real, knowing he did live gives me a sense of all the other soldiers who share this piece of no man's land.

@normanwoodward1683 Год назад

Thank you for loading this , one of my favourite songs

@craig-duncan Год назад

Mine too!

@toidonc 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Sir for your moving video and the tribute to this young soldier. The words sound to me in a such touching way, all the suffering and dying are happening again and again and again and again.

@h3llonearf697 2 месяца назад

Thank you for this video

@chesterdays2299 Год назад

This is a really great video. Just stumbled on it. The song is a favourite of mine, so this was a real pleasure to see. Good edit too. Thanks for posting.

@craig-duncan Год назад

Cheers Julian!

@Team-fabulous 6 месяцев назад

My great uncle William Kane fought with the same regiment as Willie, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Sadly he was killed on 6th of December 1917. He was never found and the Theipval memorial bares his name...

@stephenreilly3745 Год назад

Thank you.

@KermitTheGamer21 Год назад

I always thought that Willie McBride was a made-up name, the whole point of the line "or are you a stranger without even a name". I'm glad to learn something new!

@rambojp73 Год назад

He really meant they were all Willie McBride's, also it rhymed with Graveside, and a little Political point in it also 🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@djpandsmm 10 месяцев назад

You are correct it is a made up name. Eric Bogle picked it because he wanted a name that rhymed with graveside and he also wanted an Irish name because of the negative press a lot of Irish people were receiving. There is an excellent documentary on the song, on youtube where Eric himself explains the story behind the song, which is actually called No mans land, not green Fields of France or Willie McBride.

@caboHeidi75 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for making this video❤

@budzski42 Год назад

God Bless.

@towerscm33 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Craig

@lancebrown5334 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for doing the video for us who can’t get there? Eric wrote another powerful song about ww1 and Australians there called waltzing Matilda

@skiltz124 6 месяцев назад

As with the others, great thanks to Craig Duncan for this video on one of the most moving and compassionate war songs ever made. Always thought it was made by an Irish songwriter but now we know it was a Scotsman. In either case both the Scots, Irish and English produce the greatest sentimentality and sweetness in music and poetry.

@chriscarter5720 10 месяцев назад

But then why would you assume that this grave has anything to do with the song except for a coincidence of names? The song was written by a Scotsman living in Australia so it would be more reasonable to assume that the song referred to a dead Scots soldier. In fact there were at least six soldiers named W McBride killed during WW1, of whom at least three were called William. So why not the grave of Private William McBride of the 7th Battn Royal Scots Fusiliers? In fact, I don't believe Eric Bogle has identified any particular soldier as being the subject of his song. And there are actually two W McBrides in this cemetery alone, both Inniskillings, both killed in 1916. The one you went to look at was W McBride and could just as easily have been Walter. And , yes I know that this was the grave stone that Eric stood in front of in the documentary about the song. But nonetheless the man you didn't go and visit, and a better match for the song, lies in grave D67. He was Private William McBride from Lislea , Armagh, the son of Joseph and Lina McBride. Killed at the age of 21. There is no record of the age of W McBride. I have visited many of the cemeteries of France and Belgium and go back as often as my advancing years allow, so I applaud your thoughts and the intention behind this post. For that well done. For the research - not so much.

@h2oboater 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video . 🙂🙂

@brownbootarmy 21 день назад

Subscribed thank you

@MrTheo950 Год назад

respect.

@martincollins3084 Год назад

thank you M sas

@teamchoko001 11 месяцев назад

i enjoyed the drop kick murphys version of this,, added was all the horrific battle scences and aftermath ,makes you take it in and see what these men put down for us to enjoy the lives we do today.

@steven117 Год назад

History Majors this is your future in the past.....enjoying interesting graveyards....seriously.

@bryanmckay1897 Месяц назад

I prefer The Corries version myself. God Bless them all! 🙏

@valerieloney5346 4 месяца назад

They made such a sacrifice. War never ended in the years to come

@MarkLowrie-jn2hw 6 месяцев назад

We will never forget Them ❤❤❤❤

@hooliganlusc Год назад

Respect brother

@72mossy 11 месяцев назад

I'm Irish and have been to the Somme twice, we stayed in a campsite just up the road from the graveyard and we played the song at the grave. I think Willie was actually 21 not 19, If I call recall I think there was another William Mcbride also buried there, he was in his 30s. I didn't have anyone that fought in WW1 but live the history anyway.

@williamkearney-sr5mk 10 месяцев назад

Was at it last weekend very moving

@sandratuffs3734 Год назад

So peaceful.and serene yet it once represented carnage and loss........Will people ever learn in this world today that in war never truly solves anything......

@stinkeye460 Год назад

Some wars do like WW2.

@az-yq3rk Год назад

Two more of my favourite war songs on YT are: The Christmas truce | history. and Christmas truce of World War 1 | Joyeux Noel 2005 film 😔⭐😭We will never forget them ♥🦘🦘

@phineus8397 Год назад

It is a great song I particularly like the men they couldn't hang version

@lloydbaker7104 Год назад

There are in fact 2 William McBrides buried there, when I was there I visited both.

@craig-duncan Год назад

You are correct!

@fergallawlor5829 Год назад

Wow

@fergallawlor5829 Год назад

Hope to visit myself in my lifetime 🇮🇪

@davem8836 4 месяца назад

I hate to break it to you, but that's not the grave of "Willie McBride" of the song. That Willie McBride is a fictional character of Eric Bogle's imagination. Hence, there is no grave of the song's main character. More evidence of this is in the song's lyrics; "The countless white crosses in mute witness stand." Those aren't white crosses. There were many W. and William McBride's who died in WW1. I tend to believe the song's author who said there was no such person.

@banjodeano2202 4 месяца назад

great video, thanks for the upload.... does anyone else think the soldier at 4.30 has a mohican on his helmet? what was it, and what was the purpose?

@bobapbob5812 Год назад

don't forget the German version "Es ist an der Zeit" and the Welsh version "Gwaed ar eu dwylo"

@mirco4130 Год назад

Do those that lie here know, why did they die? And did they believe when they answered the call Did they really believe that this war would end wars? Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain The killing, the dying were all done in vain For young Wilile McBride, it's all happened again And again and again and again and again

@rrialb9371 2 года назад

Any idea why the graves are arranged the way they are? It's a beautifully kept Cemetery.

@craig-duncan 2 года назад

Some are clustered together some stand on their own… I have no idea but I did notice that too.

@will.scotnativeingreece Год назад

@@craig-duncan Hi Craig, nice video i take the Remembrance Service in the commonwealth war cemetery in Rhodes Greece and there are some together, one is a wellington bomber crew and the inscription states" buried near this spot" because they are all together but not identified exactly where in the grave but all the individual stones nearly touch.I also think they are arranged in line to reflect the military on parade even in death. best regards Will.

@clivestraw1913 Год назад

Those grave in line are concentration graves after the war those together or arranged without being in line are original war graves at the time

@honker3282 8 месяцев назад

Interestly, there are couple of German soldiers in the same row as WMc.(see at about 3 minutes in) The only time I have seen that in CWC cemetery.

@jondrake1977 Год назад

I want to do this!

@werewolf5674 Год назад

A warrior only dies when they are forgotten.

@tiny3544 9 месяцев назад

They never won,t be forgotten❤.They are forever in the People,s Hearts❤❤❤

@dfiglide 9 месяцев назад

It`s happening again and again in Palestine and Ukraine, right now.

@mickmckenna7273 10 месяцев назад

Some people just dont no when to shut it.the song is lovley and opend eys for people to see how fucket up aney war is. Not religen

@brucecollins641 Год назад

eric bogle has never ever mentioned the nationality of willie macbride.

@craig-duncan Год назад

He has identified the graveyard and both the W mcBrides in it were Irish, so he didnt really have to.

@ronmillis8143 3 месяца назад

I dont say that the song wasnt a great impactful song. But I doubt the furies was the greatest version of the song. That depends on the individual taste and mood when listening to the song.

@brendanmurphy462 Год назад

I wish these performers would honour the fallen, and Eric Bogel, by singing Bogel's song the way it was intended and written. The pathos, the despair, the anger, the disgust and the hope that is inherent in the original have been flushed and replaced by a soppy, cloying lullaby-type rendition which is so far from the original it is sickening. Presumably this clown believes he has the right to edit the work of one of the masters . . . well he doesn't. Leave iconic masterpieces alone and make a mess of your own work.

@craig-duncan Год назад

I never used to think Brendan Murphy was a miserable little clown, until he wrote this stoopid comment. Kindly go elsewhere and moan at yourself - nobody is interested.

@djpaulcfunkeddub3951 11 месяцев назад

"Eric Bogle also said he wrote the Green Fields of France in response to the anti Irish sentiment in Britain during the bombing campaign of the 70s, " because of the illegal British occupation and atrocities in Ireland from the 14th century right up to the 70s & beyond. "Bogle revealed he chose the name Willy McBride for the 19 year old(who researchers say was really 21) who featured in song for his Irish connotations" Whats so hard to believe? Just because you don't want to believe something does not make it untrue. Look at Ukraine today. Makes perfect sense to me. I had been wondering about young Willy McBride's grave as a result of the Furey Brother's version so looked it up & low & behold there it is & thanks to you for taking us there. You're right, there is a certain futility to war & then there's enslavement & not being able to live free. I respect every man or woman's right to defend their freedom & their country within their own country and wherever in the world the policy is made to occupy their country. i.e. Moscow is a legitimate target as they are making, allowing & doing nothing about the policy of bombing, killing, capturing, torturing, raping Ukrainians, their cities & lands.Thanks again for the video and taking the time to lay down by his graveside. Prayers said.

@alanwarwick3980 Год назад

The tune was copied for a song I think called The streets of Lerato Johnny Cash sang it

@whalencow 8 месяцев назад

The lyrics are pretty close aren't they.....and it was written a good 10 years before No Mans land Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly. Play the dead march as you carry me along. Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong

@brucecollins641 5 месяцев назад

@@whalencow go and listen to erics original words(no mans land) and no the messy irish words.

@a.r.7699 Месяц назад

Thank you for showing us this place but please next time step on a cemetery take of your cap and sunglasses. Thank you.

@malcolmscrivener8750 8 месяцев назад

War is NOT futile . If someone is threatening your family , friends or country , would you not stand up to them and defend your people like a man ? Are you saying all the people fighting in wars throughout the ages died in vain ? Are you glad to have the freedom and life you enjoy now ? These men died so you don’t have to live as a slave to the aggressors . Now your job is to continue the fight against those who would erode the liberties that these young men paid the ultimate sacrifice for . If you don’t , these WOULD have died in vain and futility . We WILL remember them !

@rambojp73 Год назад

Their are a few Willie McBride's buried in france, it was not about 1 particular man!! The song was to remind the British that Irishmen fought and died also, this was when there was alot of anti Irish sentiment in Britain because of the IRA bombing England in the 70s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀

@craig-duncan Год назад

True - but, there is only 1 Rambo!

@rambojp73 Год назад

@@craig-duncan 😂👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aye but Only 1 Rambo JP!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀