The Heroic Story of The Grantham Machine Gun Corps | The Forgotten Gunners of WWI | Timeline 

That moment at the end in memory of men who died. Got me very choked up. My grandfather was a gunner for the Canadian forces stationed in Scotland

My great grandfather fought in WWI. He was in the U.S. Army and I have his campaign ribbon from the eastern russian front. I am truly in awe at these men that fought. The thought of enviable death on their minds and the prolonged execution of it during their tenure on the lines must have been tremendous. I for one will never forget them, keeping their memories alive.

See my spirit on the wind Across the lines, beyond the hill Friend and foe will meet again Those who died at Paschendale

The Time Team shows are superbly done. Each and every one!

My grandfather served as a machine gunner with Battery B, 21st Field Artillery, 5th Division, US Army in WWI and served at the Battle of St. Miheal. My great uncle was killed by a German machine gunner while serving as an infantryman with Co. K, 110 Infantry, 28th Division on Sept. 6, 1918, just two months before the war's end.

my great uncle was a machine gunner in US Army in WWI. He was killed at Chateau Thierry in 1918.

I wonder if Tony choked up at the final salute as I did, remembering the final episode of Blackadder.

you can tell the age of a time team episode by the rings of sweat on phil's hat

Private Baldrick's new documentary looks really good!

“No! I said kill all the GOFERS! Not the GOLFERS!”

No more wars. - In my opinion, all soldiers and citisens within a war are victims of politics. Everyone wants to do their best on either side of the front, everybody experiences horror, and all create horror.

In the mid 80s I went through Basic at Ft. Sill. Our barracks buildings dated back to 1940s. Wooden buildings set on a numbers of concrete pads. I imagine that all that is there now is a series of 8" square pads if that.

Respect and thank you.

Stewart works some serious magic for time team man

It really is pretty cool that locals seem to take interest and bring in the pictures or other local info to them. I've seen other shows dealing with archeology in Britain that also seem to experience that sort of local participation... I don't know that the same things happen elsewhere ... Then again I don't really run across a lot of archeologists in the U.S. the way I'm guessing people might do in Britain.

Love cordite. Played with that stuff as a kid.

good thank you

Nice to see this in better than 480p

They can rest a lot more , God bless there souls ,

I realy like Tony Robinson as a host. If I had a wish for a RU-vid-Video from you guys, I would love to see an episode with him and Jason Kingsley together... Those two nerding about medival age stuff could be awesome! :) Greetz from Germany!

Dammit why cant anyone make a documentry aboot germany for once

Your out there looking for brass casings .. They saved them all reused them brass was at a commodity ...

I'm surprised that the back berm had not been mined for lead and copper.

Lest We Forget.

I go back to 1914 all the time

No more Brothers Wars ! Ever !

Oh dear all blanks !!!

I wonder how peacefully those survived machine gun guys lived rest of their lives. They must have been victims of highest level PTSD.

Six weeks of training... For specialists... Damn, my conscript training as a radio specialist in 2003 was 10 months long, 1 month of which were just basic soldier and outdoorsman skills before the actual specialist training started as the privates started their basic training.

Probably should have a sod company remove top layer . Might even be able to put it back . Guessing they never worked for a sod farm

must have been a tough dig for some of those folks.

cordite usually propelled at subsonic level...

Are you the man in the blackadder with the late rowan atkinson am i right? Sorry for not recognizing

There's some lovely mud over here

Even if they had found where they fired the guns from on the range they would be unlikely to have found any o the used cartridges as especially in war time the military in training woul have picked up all te brass to be returned to be either reloaded or recycled into nem cartride cases and reused. The militaty does this today because even i the brass cant be reused its scrap value is enough to make a sizeable return income to help offset some of the cost of te cost of the amunition used in training. In 20 years of military service I never once did not have to at end of the days shooting have to pick up used brass this even goes from small pistol rounds all the way up to tank and 155 mm artillery guns. Also to give you an idea o how many rounds would have been fired on a range like that into the mound at the end of the range in this time period of this camp each range would be used for about 8 hours of firing every day with the range being open for about 10 hours a day and even some times night firings with about a total of only 3 total hours max durin that time when the guns would not be firing due to time to swap details from the firing position to the target area and for lunch and morning tea and afternoon tea etc and that short belt fired full out at the end was only about 50 rounds not the full belt length of 100 to 250 rounds. The lewis gun was water cooled so could be fired in long sustained bursts unlike the later air cooled machine guns that would be fired in short bursts of 4 or 5 rounds at a time to prevent overheating and excess barrel wear. The .50 cal famous in WW2 though in bommer planes would fire long bursts when in combat those barrels were in air temps of minus 25 degrees so they would cool off quickly where as the same guns used on the groung woulf have to be ired much more sparingly unless you were in deep trouble and it was keep up the rate of ire or you died.

37:29 i always love the way how the British completely butcher the name "Passendale"

you notice he didn't warn them it was blanks...

Phil has such a strong Cornish accent!

Yaaa, you guys found the loo. Time stamp 34:50

DAVE ADAMS!!!! Where is he.

Cassie got a bit slammed at the shindig at the end of day 2, eh?

with all those people living there...where is the trash dump?

Wait - what???? 23:01 They're shooting a weapon that hasn't been fired for seventy years? That seems a bit reckless!

I can say that playing verdun that the machine gun is unfair

"What would have been going through a man's mind...clambering out of the trench...." Hopefully not a bullet?! Sorry, crass and dark, but irresistible nonetheless...

Damn, that was cool! Leave it to the Brits. Lovely Empire.

They all dress like they just got back from the North Pole, couldn't be that cold 😅

Anyone else secretly a Central Powers fan??

Im getting fed up with this channel , once they were original no just plagiarists , this programme was uploaded by someone else long ago , poor show , timeline ..

If English accents rub you the wrong way be warned..