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My grand uncle William Kane was killed at the Somme aged 24. His body was never found and the Theipval memorial bares his name. He fought with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. I have just acquired replicas of his medals as the originals have been lost over the ages. I plan to once again visit Theipval and Ypres this year and wear his medals as a mark of respect for this young man who gave his life for King and Country.. Although I never met William I am so very proud of him. Rest in peace my dear grand uncle.

One of my saddest memories is picking up a tongue depressor on the ground under the wall by the Menin Gate and reading "To the father I never knew, from your son aged 80"..

Beneath Hill 60 is a very good film about the Australians who served in this manner. Well worth a watch.

Humanity will never learn, no matter how many lessons are provided.

My great-grandfather was in the trenches at Ypres. He survived the Great War having been gassed and losing the top of one of his fingers in a blast.

My Grandfather was a tunneller from the Royal Engineers, he was 16 when he enlisted in 1914. A coal miner from North Staffordshire.

My great grandfather was one of these sappers. (Belgian by birth, in the Canadian forces, on loan to the British) He was gassed during counter tunnel measures at Messines ridge on or about June 6th 1917. He survived and returned to the field to join the Canadians in the upcoming horrific battles. I cant even imagine what life (and death) was like in those tunnels and trenches.

My Grandfather, Robert Johnston, was a member of the 4th Battalion of the Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was captured on or about June 2/3 during the Battle of Mount Sorrel. He was one of the lucky ones - he lived, but spent the rest of the war as a POW.

The horror that is war. The mad say, give us more.

My 17 year old Aussie Grandpa was there too. Never spoke about it but came home and got stuck into work without a whinge

I have a great uncle from Wales who was wounded at Ypres and died at a German military hospital !

I know it’s fiction, but the three brothers of the peaky blinders were tunnel diggers… makes so much more sense!

Thanks so much for posting.

Great one! If anyone's brutally interested in military history I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. He's a PhD in Medieval warfare but he's spectacular also when talking about contemporary strategy and tactics

My Great Grandfather was there 104th Canadian Expeditionary Force, he died of nephritis 1920 , he passed a year after the war, most likely being in those trenches

Excellent ... thank you for posting.

Having been to Ypres with scouts and being part of the last Post ceremony holding a scout flag,I have to say that the ceremony is so special. As well, all the names on the walls reminds everyone who goes there how costly war truly is

WHAT a boon the Internet has proven to be for us History buffs. Young students today don't realise how lucky they are!

That city has to be majorly haunted after such a massive shedding of blood.

I absolutely love history!! I would really live to go back to school for something history related

A thrilled watching 👀 video about British 🇬🇧 troops military adventures through below up German troops from underground 🚇 tunnels during WW1. Thank you ( time line) channel for sharing

The forgotten battle. My uncle Adam is on the menin gate. 6th Northumberland Fusilliers Second battle of Ypres at Saint Julien. They counter attacked on the 26th of April after st Julian was captured by the Germans after they had used gas. 2000 casualties in one day his body was never found. From my research it was a bloody mess

Anybody notice the bullet holes in the Aussie tunneller's monument? Can't imagine the horrors working down there.

My great-grandfather was killed there Nov 1914 ,with the Connaught rangers

By 1917 their were no real trenches just a series of linked shell holes such was the damage caused by large artillery bombardments on the fields of Flanders. My gt grandfather fought during the passchendaele offensive, on the first day, 31/07/1917, and again on 20/09/1917 the battle of menin rd. He survived despite being a runner but his brother was MIA somewhere near mont Kemmel April 1918. Lest we forget.

I love her willingness to speak English even though it’s not natural to her. ❤

My GreatGrandfather was there for Canada when he was 14 years old, and Vimy Ridge, probably the worst battles of WW1

Very interesting

My Grandfather and his brother where Royal Engineers carpenters at Ypres.The brother was shell shocked out of the Army and never worked again.Spoke with him a few times as a child. One of the mines on the Somme as set off by the British is said to have caused a mini earthquake that broke the legs of Royal Warwickshire troops braced in the trenches for the expolsion.

Its crazy to think they used so much tnt that each bang created what are now small lakes!!

There is a WW1 movie called "Beneath Hill 60" its about Australian Tunnellers

🍁Lest we forget

What kind a man going into war..

great adventure - how can anybody be this dense?

respect

Off topic, but I will trust the local's pronunciation of Ypres of the British. :)

Sorry all the ads from RU-vid to those you have imbedded is just too much. I can’t count the commercials and it’s only 5 minute in

I know this isn’t about the Battle of the Somme, but Tolkien was a soldier there and that battle was one of the if not the bloodiest conflict in human history. Makes LOTR hit a Little different

IMO ww1 was more gruesome and scary than ww2 but I’d still rather be in ww1 bc of the lack of technology that came 20 years later

Three mines didn't go off at the time, nobody remembers where they were, one went off due to lightning years later.

No sound..?

The chances of being eaten by a grue were very high in the area

1:00 this was not the biggest explosion of WWI. I’m pretty sure correct me if I’m wrong it was the explosion at black Tom island by German spies in New York City. The Statue of Liberty was damaged.

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I never understood why the British put an F in lieutenant ( lieuftenant)

I have never understood the reason why World War One started?

The brits had a few companies of 5ft 2inc men did they go down the mines. ✌️ ☘️

To low budget for a good flashlight aye lol

Virtually unwatchable, thanks to all the ads before

People love to moan about the horrors of trench warfare but I remind everyone that the duration most spent in the trench on the front line was 4 to 8 days...... Not weeks not months but days.

What an epic waste of life.

WW1 was sus

A war Britain should not have got involved in.

Senseless war. Appalling waste of life.

6 minutes in and 5 adverts already? Unwatchable 🙄

Yup. The arrogance on people, by beings-in-authority. Nothing changes 1000s of years… …but at least we are all peaceful in 2023.🙄

Sounds like his uncle auditioned for the role of pink mist and got the part lol

While I admire the sheer guts of the men living in the tunnels I can't help wondering at the stupidity of sending the cream of your nation's youth to do this in the name of honour! I would have packed up and left.

IMO, not a great episode.While the writings of 2nd Lt Boothby were telling and poignant, it seems that the entire episode centred around him - basically one man's experience of tunnelling. The episode starts with the suggestion that the Hill 60 mine (or was it the Caterpillar Mine?) was the largest mine exploded on the Western Front, neither of which is incorrect. A later comment was made regarding Third Ypres "quagmire" that "even" spoiled the tunnelling operations - a curious remark considering that tunneling would be the first thing to suffer in a quagmire! Twenty-two mines laid at the Messines Ridge, but little to no reference made to the three that did not explode - or what happened in that regard! Most historians know the location of one that didn't go off; one that went off in c1953, but not where the third one is! Two people walking ahead of the camera and discussing events that could barely be heard is not the way to inform the viewer. Two people entering a concrete tunnel and investigating virtually every wall panel was rather a pointless exercise - what were they trying to discover or teach? OK, I'm being picky when I'd rather not, but the whole idea of a documentary is to inform, unfortunately this one failed in an amateurish way to provide that information.

13:22 why is a British soldier writing measurements in feet instead of meters?

It's Eeper not Jeper in Dutch pfff

A bunch of Kings and nobles, possibly the most undeserving of the title noble, use peasants and lower class workers to fight and die, all for the hereditary, aristocratic system of determining ones lot in life. The soldiers are regaled with tales of glory, fighting and dying like pawns in a game of Kings, Dukes, Earls, Marquis, Squires, etc.

Blood of my blood... Never forgotten !!!!

People call Ypres “eeepruh”. People i met in a great deal people in various towns in Belgium called Leper. le-p-err. I suppose it may depend on whether someone is french or flemish or dutch etc etc

My GreatGrandfather was there for Canada when he was 14 years old, and Vimy Ridge, probably the worst battles of WW1

My GreatGrandfather was there for Canada when he was 14 years old, and Vimy Ridge, probably the worst battles of WW1