Thanks for this video Chris. I' m often on this cemetry and think about what happened. With help of the allied forces we live in freedom in Europe and my thank is to all the soldiers on this cemetry. ❤
My Great Uncle is buried in this cemetery. was lucky to visit back in 2013. He was KIA 6th April 1945 aged 24 and served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Thank you Chris, for bringing these men's deeds to our attention and awakening our gratitude for all they gave, in giving all, that we may be here today. ❤️
Thank you for this video. Not many do videos about the British and Canadian forces and their dead. Great video. Very beautiful cemetery. You honored those men with class
They gave their lifes for our freedom. I will never forget. My mother was 7 years and the british soldiers saved her life because she was very ill (Rur). Thank you forever and RIP
When you visit the Netherlands don't forget the War Museum in Overloon. It's placed near the site of a battle and has a large collection of everything you can think of that has to do with WW2. There also is a cementery nearby.
My father was in the Reichswald in February 1945. Although he was born in Sussex he served with the 9th Cameronians Scottish Rifles. It was a particularly bleak winter and although many would wear balaclavas whilst in slit trenches to combat the cold my father didn’t as he said for fear of not hearing something. He lost parts of both ears to frostbite. He crossed the Rhine but was wounded in an attack as they advanced toward Rees. Many years later when the British Government were offering free passports to veterans for one of the significant anniversaries I asked him if I should get one so he could revisit. He replied “ I didn’t need a f**king passport last time they wanted me to go “ miss him every day.
Thanks for this video I've been there many times the first been in 1995 with my dad who fought there he was in the 7th battalion Seaforth Highlanders 15th Scottish Division he had 28 of his company buried there He passed away 18 years ago but I promised him I'd carry on going back to pay my respects
Amazing to see you in my home town of Kleve. Such unnecessary loss of life in a war that was already won/lost. Beautiful place though. PS: There is also a German cemetery in a small town nearby, with forced laborers buried there as well. See if you wanna make a stop there.
@@mitchellhedden1978 Well, I think it's a valuable lesson to look it at it from the perspective of those who were sacrificed for nothing at all, while fighting just a few miles from their own homes. Don't get me wrong: Germany's defeat was the defeat of fascism and therefore a victory for mankind. That's precisely why the perspective of Wehrmacht soldiers is so tragic and powerful. It ought to teach us a lesson. Evil is part of mankind and you can end up on the wrong side of history quite quickly.
My Great Uncle is buried here so thank god I can see the cemetery without paying for a plane ticket. My uncle was apart of the Royal Canadian Air Force. (Edit I changed I to is)
My father was in the 193rd Glider Infantry. That unit took such heavy casualties at the Bulge that what was left were combined in the 194th. At Varsity they dropped into a field with telephone poles designed to lop the wings off of gliders. That field had 88mm anti-aircraft guns nearby that leveled their guns for direct fire into the 194th. A lot of my father’s friends died there.
Very emotional watching this. My Uncle Reggie is buried here, KIA on 25th March 45. He was 19 serving with The 7 bn Black Watch. He went off to war at 17 & never returned. I am going to visit his grave in Feb. Your video is very touching. Thank you
My father was in the 1st Battalion Black Watch he was 21 on 25th March 1945. He was there, he survived, went on to become an architect and died aged 81 in south west London. He didn’t discuss with me any of the details of the war. All he said was a number of toasts “to absent friends”.
Jeus 8 times hit? damm, must have had god on his shoulders & his Andrenalin pumping high, while most men would have been downed fully after 3-4 hits, defintly a Lengdary guy to hear About, thank you for sharing this stuff. ( I am not very highly Religous but if see such stuff irl... I proably would become much more than I am in real life.)
Ox and Bucks Light infantry were glider-bourne troops in 6th Airborne Division and the same unit which assaulted "pegasus bridge" on D-day; they were involved in Operation Varsity.
My father, a Canadian, grew up in Buckinghamshire and went to school in Oxfordshire. While almost his classmates who left Lord Williams' Grammar School in 1937 went into the "Ox and Bucks" (or more familiarly "the Obblies") either went into the bag or were killed during the campaign in Belgium and France and the victory campaign of '44 and '45. My father told me that only he and one other survived unscathed because they had joined the Royal Navy.
My uncle, Percy Stamper, is buried there. He was aircrew with Bomber Command and flew with an otherwise all Canadian crew (he was a Yorkshireman). He was shot down and killed on his first sortie, in a Halifax bomber. He was only 23 years old.
Whilst there are Commonwealth cemeteries in Germany I believe there are no American ones. Something about being buried on foreign soil. Enjoy your work, Chris.
Hi, Chris, as yesterday no words of mine can add anything , thank you so much for doing this. One sad note so many died so near to the end of the European war. We should always remember that.
I watch all of your videos, of all the different subjects and content. It is videos such as this one that I consider your best work. Your narrative and demeanor in sharing the information is top notch.
Idea to make your life easier: have a Google forms linked in the description of videos so people can request topics for future videos. Although commenting on videos does appease the RU-vid algorithm gods so maybe it’s better to keep requests in the comments? Not sure.
All battles are a tragedy. This is no exception and may be even more tragic than most. It was so unnecessary. All those people could have lived nice long lives if not for this battle. Unless the final battle was the decisive battle, I feel like they’re usually meaningless loss of life.
