Joe visits two men who have worked together to transform a field into a World War 1 trench. It's a trip along the duckboards of history... but what made them start digging!? #bfbs #BARMY
@@benguthrie3286 in the documentary “they shall not grow old” you get some insight on some of the soldiers humor and what they would joke about:) (besides other things ofc)
conducting a "defence" is no joke, during a field op in the Marinecorps me another guy had to dig a two man fighting hole lined with sandbags and areas to put our gear and stuff, that took all day. Not to mention some kind of tropical storm came right over us and poured on us the whole night, our small fighting hole kept collapsing on us the whole night and we had to constantly trovel water and mud out of our hole, cant imagine holding that kind of thing up for years on end.
Trenches were typically structurally supported with wood planks and support beams as well as a elevated platform to avoid stepping in mud all the time. Trench foot and gangrene were still massive problems, Took about as many men out of the war as bullets.
As a reenactor myself, and knowing a full kit of gear costs £1000+ my heart nearly shot out of my chest when he fell over "Trying it out" for the first time... 0:
It’s so interesting to read these comments (in a good way) to get a little insight into the perspectives of others. As a yank, we’re in a bit of a weird time in the surplus market especially regarding certain milsurp rifles. We have smle’s, 98’s and Garands up to our chins at the moment and oddly enough, they’re cheaper than SKS’s which used to be the rock bottom standard by which everything else was sort of gauged. When I saw him fall I thought nothing of the deact and my first thought was “that’ll be good for the gear, to get some wear and mud in the fabric”. I’ve got a bunch of repro German and US gear I’ve collected since I was 12 but I just don’t value it as much. Anything original, I very much care for. I’ve gotten most of my gear through At The Front and love their stuff. I wear their repro US Service Shoe M43 as my work boots currently and use their German M42 cut Blurred Edge (rauchtarnmuster) Smock for Turkey hunting here. Good stuff.
Gurkha beaneth the bravery. The movie made by Nepalese crew. It about kulbir Thapa who obtained the first Victoria cross. Should read the reasoning of why he obtained Victoria cross
An interesting topic for a video could be how the bodies from the 1916 Batte of Jutland floated with the currents as far as the Swedish west coast hence there are war graves from Jutland all along the Swedish and Norwegian west coasts.
We have a 200 acre WWI French battle field here where I live in PA complete with field hospital, vehicles and everything else with 1000 members and it's all private.
Great video, and congratulations!!! It would be careless of not salute Mr. Tobey Dingle and his love of history and building the trenches. Bravooo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
To be honest there is something about digging holes. Something deep down and primal. I have yet to go to the beach and not find an “entrenching” group of men from ages 9 to 35 just digging a big hole for no other reason as to because we can. Just start digging a big hole on the beach and I guarantee other random males will join you in deepening the hole. I get the feeling these guys took that primal drive to dig a hole to the extreme and ended up recreating a WW1 trench and made a business of it. To be honest I kinda wish I could do the same thing.
Hi there guys I'm a disabled British Army Veteran who has set up a not for profit community educational project called WORS War Out Reach in Schools- Gloucestershire. We have our own Mobile WW1 Trench. We are working towards a Local History Partnership with 7 Schools and building our own small Trench System
Wow this kid got to do exactly what I wanted for airsoft. My dad borrowed my principals tractor back when I was in middleschool and I asked him to dig some trenches on our property turned out more like 4 sandpits. Its the thought that counts but darn this would have been awesome.
I am currently reading Ioan Grillo’s new book “Blood, Gun, Money”. It is about the iron river of guns going from the USA and south across the border. Very interesting and easy to read.g
I love this dude 😆. What a legend. I also built a fighting pit at my grandmothers farm completed with sandbags, firing port and timber revetments. Then came the home-made weapon pintle to support my big plastic toy gun. Had so much fun in it with my mates as we were growing up rein-acting all of our favourite war movie moments.
They did the opposite of history. Spent forever making nice British trenches and spent almost no time on the german trenches. In reality the germans had way better living conditions in their trenches. Edit: the germans realized very quickly that trenches where not going away quickly. The british did not.
Imagine you start building a WW1 Trench in your backyard and your Neighbors look out the window and sees a Man digging a WW1 Trench in a British WW1 Uniform 😂😂😂 The Neighbor 👁 👁 👄
Why go to all that effort to skimp on the depth of the Trench ? Plus the German trenches were way more elaborate than the British lines with deep comfortable bunkers/living quarters
@@tobiasbourne9073 more than you obviously at least ive actually seen the real ones in France and at no time is your head over the parapet unless you are on a firestep
@@zaynevanday142 I have been to many in France and Belgium, including Sanctuary Wood in which there are parts that are deep and parts where your head is high above the parapet. Also if you look in photos you can easily see how much trenches differentiate in depth. It’s Especially significant that reserve trenches are much deeper, however they’re not making a reserve trench. You need to realise that many times when digging their trenches, they could be under heavy shellfire, I have read a primary source explaining how they couldn’t get their trench very deep due to poor weather and lots of danger. So you’re either blind, or lazy in your research. . .
This is so bloody cool so this is a "most see" soon as the damn Covid crap is over. You british are so much cooler than us swedes, this trenches would never be allowed in Sweden. "Someone might get hurt!!"
I would hate to be in a WWI trench. My Dad who was in combat in Korea told me they had to dig trenches along hillsides for defensive positions to fight off or hold the North Koreans or Chinese during their attacks. The problem was living in them for days or weeks and even months as a patrol base was the enemy dead bodies left 300 meters or more in front of your firing position would leave a bad stench of rotting corpses that will bring flies and maggots to you and rats that will start running up and down your own trench that will keep you awake all night keeping them off of your body. Next is lice, these little bugs will fuck with your mind scratching under your uniform when you try to sleep. Dad hated Korea during his 3 years there in combat. He said the Chinese made that place a living hell fighting for the same hills and valleys for months because the Chinese and North Koreans dug trenches also. To attack an enemy trench requires more firepower as in artillery and mortars before an assault. The problem is you have to constantly observe where the Chinese or North Koreans move their machineguns and mortars because at night they move them into positions of interlocking fires. Artillery coordination and fire planning had to be solid in assaulting any objective. A good leader had to do reverse fire planning also just in case of being counter attacked for a withdrawl. Doesn't mean you are retreating but drawing your enemy into the open to bring down more accurate artillery or mortar fire to cause more casualties on your enemy as a deception. American infantry companies within a regiment were used as bait for these objective assaults on enemy positions. Very sad and horrifying stories Dad told me about combat in Korea..
watching the shelling in Ukraine , trenches would still cut down the numbers killed , you see people putting up barricades or running from bombs but not digging foxholes . although they are digging trenches in Odessa
Guys, I hope everyone can relate to that I would love, fuckin LOVE to build a smalm trnech system in like a 1km×1km field and have an airsoft war between american soldiers and soviet soldiers 1980, as if the "3rd world war" broke out. If ypu get hit in chest or head, you just drop on the floor and get transported away later, if you get hit anywhere thats not chest or head you fall to the ground and scream. That wpuld be a hell of an adrenaline kick and I think after a few days it would really feel like you were in an actual battle Costs of my almost-original uniform: -M69 summer jacket+trousers (officers version) 46€ + 10€ shipping (ORIGINAL) -SSh-60 VSSR helmet about 30€ (ORIGINAL) -rubber boots( look fairly similar to original ones) 13€ -GP-5 gasmask with new polish filter 30€ (cause original one has asbestos) (ORIGINAL) -leather belt I got from my parents: 0€ all together: 129€ for looking close to a 1980's soviet officer
