The Largest British War Cemetery on Earth - Tyne Cot, Belgium 

"In a foreign field he lay Lonely soldier, unknown grave On his dying words he prays Tell the world of Paschendale"

"Sacrificed to the fallacy that war can end war." A soldier dies and a parent cries.

As a Fleming, the mispronunciation of the town names slightly annoyed me at first, then I considered it is probably how these soldiers would've known these towns as. It is fitting when reporting these stories that the town names be pronounced as these soldiers would've...

These are the videos that need to be shown to our students. The reality of war.

thank you so much brave soldiers from Canada New Zealand, G.B Austalia, to come to Europe to help us, a verry humble Belgain

My Grandfather is Commemorated on a tablet at Tyne Cot. No member of our family has ever been able to visit his resting place. As a result of his death in NOV1917 my mother never got to meet her father --- he was gone before she was born.His early passing impacted many later decisions within our family including, in part, our later move to Australia.I hope to see Tyne Cot before my time is up.

This whole series has been beautiful and extremely powerful. Keep up the great work Chris. As always loving the reactions and the original content

I went there on a school trip years ago. Everyone in my class was just blown away by the sheer number of graves. We also saw the German graves there as well. RIP to the Commonwealth soldiers who gave their lives. 🇬🇧

RIP to all the commonwealth soldiers .

Just bumped into this... Quality beyond words... Pure class. Definitely paying those brave men the recognition they deserve..

I’ve been to Tyne Cot twice and to the surrounding area three times. It’s an astonishing place. To stand at the top of the cemetery, seeing all graves immediately in front of you and, beyond, the sloping landscape away towards Ypres is hugely sobering. So much life lost in such awful conditions and within such a small area. It’s a must see for all Brits. Thank you for this video- very respectfully done and lovely to hear the stories of some of the men.

Lance Corporal Henry Carline, Kings Liverpool Regiment, 9th Battalion. 1895-1917. Aged 22 years. Henry was killed in action after being blown to smithereens by enemy shelling on 21st September 1917 during the battle of the Menin Road, Passchendaele. No body was recovered. No body was left. He never came home, though they all yearned to. His name is one of the thousands inscribed on the tablet at the Tyne Cot cemetery. 82 men were lost from his battalion alone. Henry Carline wasn’t just a name to me though, he is my Great, Great Uncle. His name liveth on in his sister Florence’s first born son (my grandad), and in turn to my son who is now the same age Henry was when he was killed, 22. I’m so grateful to you for putting this stream together. I haven’t been able to pay my respects there yet, though I’m determined to one day. Lest we forget 🌺

I'm from Belgium, and my grandfather's family is actually from Ypres. He sadly already passed away a couple of years ago, but every summer we still go to Ypres and West-Flanders to relive some memories. We also always try to visit some WW1 cemeteries, and over the years we've visited quite a lot, even the smaller, more hidden ones. But I'll never get over how blown away I was as a small child visiting Tyne Cot for the first time. I remember I tried to read every name on the huge memorial wall, but just couldn't wrap my head around how many people that was, and how many nationalities all came to Belgium to die an early and terrible death because of the horrors of war. I really think every person should visit Tyne Cot (or any major war cemetery) at least once in their life, just as a reminder of the horrors of war and never to do it again. Rest in peace to all the soldiers there, and all the other soldiers never found or identified. ❤️

I had the privilege of being in Tynecot in 2018 with a large group of Canadian Army Cadets including my daughter. While just walking up and down the rows I glanced at one grave that had the Canadian maple leaf. The surname was Lidstone. I know from family history that at this time all Canadian Lidstone’s are related to one of 5 brothers that emigrated from Britain. I looked it up on the commonwealth grave sites commission’s website and sure enough he was a relative of mine through my mother who was also a Lidstone.

The most beautifull cemetery imo. Also really cool to hear some personal stories

I really appreciate all the work you do on these videos.

Was there 2 years ago to visit our Canadian boys...cried like a baby, such a powerful place. RIP.

I’ve just returned from visiting Tyne city. Beautifully kept graves as far as the eye can see. Unbelievable numbers of men of all ages. 🙏🇬🇧

Alfred Castleman, 46th Battalion CEF, 436664 hit by a shell and instantly killed on October 10, 1917. His body was never found, his name is on the Menin Gate. One of the chaps who signed up the same week as my grandfather in Edmonton. Lest we forget. I’ll be visiting the battle field this year.

My great uncle's name is on one of the panels which form the memorial to the missing. He died during an attack on a piece of land nicknamed "Inverness Copse", astride the Menin Road to the east of Ypres. This was during the rainy month of August 1917, on the 22nd. This was on one of just three days when it didn't rain that month. The place was a morass of mud, poison gas, rain filled shell-holes, barbed-wire and blasted tree-stumps. A quagmire and impossible to comprehend. My great uncle was Lance Corporal Ernest James Cottell of the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, he was just 19 years old when he went missing. It took four months for the death to be confirmed. R.I.P. great uncle Ernie.

I visited on a school trip a couple years ago, the scale of the cemetery is staggering

I've eaten the best sorbet ice cream and attended one of the best hardcore festivals in Ypres before. Can wholeheartedly recommend it as someone to visit, aside from the history.

i have a cousin on the memorial with the Warwick's,amazing place considering,you do them justice thank you

I was there in August 2022, when you enter the cemetery it's incomprehensible the number of graves. It is very much like entering the US cemetery at Utah Beach where is acre upon acre of white crosses. It is difficult to comprehend that each stone represents at least one person.

Well presented.....visited a couple of years back, very humbling place😢

Thank you for mentioning the Australians. Pascendale is very special to us.

Excellent presentation, very professional and congratulations on your thorough research. My Grandfather served with the 40th btn AIF (Australia). He arrived at Ypres on 5/5/1917 and was wounded during the 3rd battle of Ypres - Broodseinde ridge on 5/10/1917. I visited the site in 2018 and walked through the fields where his battalion fought on the way to their objective which was the top of the ridge where the Tyne Cot bunker now stands. This is the action where Sgt Lewis McGee of B Coy won his VC. My grandfather was wounded the next day. Being there and seeing all that and attending the 8:00pm memorial, was one of the greatest days of my life.

Another thoughtful and moving video. Many thanks

Brave men who fought and risked their lives so our countries can be safe. May they be remembered forever

I am going over to France and Belgium in July this year to visit all the family graves and to hopefully track down where the names are of our missing family members. My grt, grt uncle Thomas White is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery.

Outstanding video Chris. The leasons you teach are priceless and many thanks!

Hi, Chris, that was so moving and was brilliantly done. Your original content is so good.

A great video - this whole Ypres series has been really well done 👏

This has been an excellent little series about Ypres. Enjoyed it a lot 👍

Nothing but love for our fallen troops, we will remember them.

Great Video! My great Grandfather Served in the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers in France, Belgium and in 1916 he was moved to Mesopotamia and finished the war in Palestine.. he received shrapnel wounds in he’s legs and had a bayonet wound on his hand! Great video 😊 greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

13:28 Interesting, usually I think of Australian service in WW1 Gallipoli is the first thing that comes to mind, didn't know they were also in Belgium!

Another moving on location video. Great work Chris.

A moving tribute, beautifully done, I really enjoyed it. Bless you for keeping their memory alive. ❤

Was there 11/9/23 , a well kept cemetery and a great reminder of all the souls lost in the war . RIP to all soldiers lost

This feels very professional now!! I like it!!

I've been to Tyne Cot as well, and would recommend everyone visit it if they have the opportunity.

Beautifully and sensitively done. Thank you.

I watched some squaddies from a unit in Germany visit Tyne Cot Cemetery. They were around 20 and after the Sergeant explained why they were there. Like all young men they were streetwise and cocky. As they went round the headstones you could see their attitude change as they saw the ages of the dead. It was an educational and moving experience. Keep the videos coming please.

very powerful video. thank you chris

Very well done. Thank you very much.

Love the stories!!

It's amazing that most of these people are not much older than I am right now. A lot of my peers and I have the privilege of being able to wonder what we want to do with our lives because of what these brave men did with theirs

Really impressiv video. R.I.P. for the Commonwealth and the german Soldiers.

Chilling and fascinating all at once

At the 13:30 mark there is an example of what is described as Marble "white out". The original inscription of the central memorial gave the credit to the 2nd Australian Division, which as you can imagine caused a bit of a stir. Once the error was realised the inscription was altered to say the 3rd and you can see where the new marble was inserted to make that change.

RIP to all valiant hearts, thank you

Great video

Nice video my friend!

Holy cow! Powerful stuff!

You talk very interestingly about the battles of Great war

Very well-done. Makes me wonder: what about the millions who died on the Easter Front during World War 2?

I visited my uncles grave in Anzio, he died on his 19th birthday. I read many of the inscriptions on the graves and one I found to be profound. It read "Well son, duty done. Rest in peace"

Excellent and interesting.

Like your videos very well done

Portent to perfection Sir.

We will remember them.

The was a BBC documentary you might be interested in called "The Last Tommy" that interviewed some of the last surviving british ww1 veterans in 2005 it was an amazing and moving documentary its in 2 parts I belive.

Chris I don’t know if you know this but on the big cross of remembrance there is a dedication to the Aust 3rd Division (i think) but if you look closely at it you can see that it was wrongly inscribed and has been corrected. I think from memory it was originally inscribed as the 2nd Division. Been to Tyne Cot many times and I always like looking at the detritus of war on the big glass display. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

At 12:23 the grave of the Jewish Aussie has stones put on top which is a Jewish tradition. Touching.

Have to respect the British Army for allowing that one family to choose a gravestone text that's essentially anti-war.

As an Aussie Lest We Forget

Lovely tribute and poignant on 11/11/23. We will remember them.

RIP to all our Heroes.

RIP to those who fell. My question, yes 12,000 memoralized here yet there are not enough cemetaries for the much greater. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands died on those plains.

I was there last Tuesday

They shall never grow old. Thank you for your sacrifice. SSG Gubanic.

Please research Villers-Bretonneux . It's special to all Aistralians.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

Found a lee enfield pretty close

For the next video can you make a video on Jimmy Carter's life

How did the salient form? And did the Germans try any tactics to encircle the salient like a pincer movement or a feigned retreat?

I went there

I've visited this cemetery. It's heart-breaking to see so many gravestones bearing the inscription:- *A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR* *KNOWN UNTO GOD*

When I see these cemeteries I am immediately reminded of a shocking waste of the life of young men from both sides of the conflict

I'd love to know what was going on in the minds of those soldiers who single handedly attacked machine gun positions. What were they thinking?

I did not know that Indian soldiers fought in WW1. But after watching this video, I decided to looked up information on Indian soldiers serving in WW1. I was shocked to discover that 1,445,000 Indians served in Europe and in Gallipoli ( Turkey). Over 120,00 Indian solders were killed or wounded. They were all under British Command.

Have you visited Noel Chevasse's Grave at Brandhoek?

I am afraid two of my family one great uncle from both sides of my family are out there unidentified with no none grave 😊

Probably the wrong place to ask but with jimmy carter opting to go to hospice and his passing probably coming sooner rather then later is there any chance you could react to his presidency particularly for the non USA audience

No they weren’t, the blokes that fought in WW2 were of the same stock, normal friendly blokes who didn’t want to fight but did.

The Great War for Civilisation, I didn’t believe in it then and I believe in it less so now JRR Tolkien circa 1960s

Sgt Edward Mc Kernan M M Royal Inniskilling Fus remembered on plaque no body was found

Rest in peace British Empire soldiers 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Andrew Kearins 54th Coy British army KIA 3 Ypres 1917 hes on the wall

Why are there German graves at Tyne Cot? THANK YOU.

I believe British families had to pay for inscriptions on the head stones ,sadly no all could afford that why you see headstones without a family inscription however the governments of the commonwealth counties payed for the inscriptions on they're war dead headstones .

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These people were built different