The Real Story Of The Tomb Of The Unknown Warrior

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'The Real Story Of The Tomb Of The Unknown Warrior'
Dan Snow explores the story of Westminster Abbey's most poignant memorials.
The First World War was a conflict like nothing the World had ever known. More than 700,000 men mobilised in the UK would die during the conflict. Roughly 250,000 of those would have no known grave.
The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior became a place where all those people who were denied a grave to visit could come to remember their loved ones. November 2020 marks 100 years since this unknown soldier was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey.
For the centenary Dan Snow visits the Abbey and the National Army Museum, to learn more about an untold story behind the Unknown Warrior. Featuring Justin Saddington, curator of the Unknown Warrior exhibition at the National Army Museum.
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@alsenar2 Год назад

It's really beautiful that the Unknown Warrior wasn't just buried anywhere. He was buried alongside the Kings. The greatest honor for someone who made the ultimate sacrifice.

@nilo70 Год назад

Well put

@johanengelen8979 Год назад

Not alongside but in the center

@lusolad Год назад

He is above the kings. He earned his glory and respect.

@nemo6686 10 месяцев назад

It's the kings who are honored by his presence.

@alsenar2 10 месяцев назад

True. That's even better. @@johanengelen8979

@angelabushby1891 Год назад

My Grandad was one of those that collected and dug up the dead on Battle Fields,I remember him as a very quiet gental man,I think he was in the Pioneers, he never spoke of the war we found out from our Granma,what horrible nightmares he must have had,I was 16 when he died,I'm 75 now, still have lovely memories of him and his toothy grin,I'm upsetting myself here,Rest in Peace Grandad xx

@mark703 2 года назад

My G/Uncle was one of those fallen and his body never recovered, Harry Martin White G/326 Queens Own Royal West Kents. Killed by shellfire on the 14th Oct 1915 at the battle of Loos. It gives a little piece of mind that this unknown soldier could be anyone of our lost loved one's. May they all rest in peace now as their job is done.

@elizabethsands4470 2 года назад

My late husband served in the Queen's Regiment but sadly the troubles in N Ireland mentally took their toll on him

@monkeytennis8861 2 года назад

"Loved ones" you've never met. Ok

@mark703 2 года назад

@@elizabethsands4470 So sad for them and us all Elizabeth.

@wlenore8071 2 года назад

Well said

@ste2442 2 года назад

@@monkeytennis8861 show some respect . Respect costs nothing .

@carolbulmer8253 2 года назад

Thank you for this account of the selection for the grave of the unknown soldier🙏 My grandfather, Arthur Spring, fought in this war. He was gassed and when he returned to Canada, he spent some time in the veterans hospital n London, Ontario. He died 55 years ago of a heart attack in Hamilton, Ontario, at the age of 76. He was a sweet man and I loved him dearly😔

@handcrafted30 Год назад

We will remember him.

@northwalescoast7911 Год назад

My sister lived in Hamilton for many years, sadly she recently passed away,our grandfather also fought in WW1,he was awarded the Military Medal, luckily he returned home, I take care of his grave and will do as long as I can.

@terradisiena Год назад

Thank you for sharing him with us, I will remember his name.

@bobbybates2614 Год назад

My grandfather also in ww1 but do not the regiment he was in but he did show me one of medals

@bobbybates2614 Год назад

If you look at britain and other european nations lost a whole generation as well as New Zealand Australia America

@Jabberstax Год назад

They shall never be forgotten 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@Ouch. 2 года назад

My Grandfather fought in WW1. He was in the regular army before the war. His regiment (Royal West Kents) fought first in Mesopotamia and later on the Somme and at Ypres. He was wounded twice and I'm sure this saved his life. He had to come back to the UK to heal his wounds whilst his regiment was cut to pieces. He never spoke of his time in WW1. But he said he was the only male survivor of his class from the local village school.

@catgladwell5684 2 года назад

One of my grandfathers also survived the whole four years. He would never talk about it, not to his children or his grandchildren. My grandma's twin brother was killed on the first day of the Somme. I still put a cross on the cenotaph here for him every 11 November.

@user-lf3wr8rh7r Год назад

@@catgladwell5684 My great grandfather was also killed on the first day of the somme, his dead mans penny was displayed in my mothers house for many years!

@catgladwell5684 Год назад

@@user-lf3wr8rh7r Good on your mother. Every November, I feel that my paltry tribute to my dead at 19 great uncle is something of a farce, but what else can we children of more fortunate generations do? It is better than nothing, I always think. Grandma cherished her tiny black and white photo of her dearly loved brother for the rest of her long life. I loved her, and there is nothing else I can do.

@vikingraider1961 Год назад

My grandfather was in Royal West Kents too - he also went to Mesopotamia - he said that was the only reason that he survived - his brothers were in the Lancashire Fusiliers and were all killed on the Western front. In WWII he ended up as CO of the Maidstone barracks (too old for active service by then).

@garyowen9044 7 месяцев назад

God Bless

@Arwar555 Год назад

Thanks for posting . Thinking of all those soldiers from then United India who fought in WW1 and died in a foreign land never to be seen again by loved ones back home. May they all rest in peace with their compatriots.

@gerrylewis5281 Год назад

My grandfather served in WW1 on the Somme. He never really talked about what he and his comrades went through. On some occasions he would wonder why he survived when so many others didn't. He often would talk to me about the need of how the strong should defend the weak. He also would tell me that the soldiers survival rate was counted in days rather than months. I was aged about 9 years old at the time. He was a proud man who had been through hell. But he had great faith in his country. He was proud that both my mother and father served in WW2. But on occasion he would say that they had it easy compared to what his comrades went through. Later, after he passed I joined the military in honour of him and my parents. I served 20 years in the Army and I'm proud to have served my country. But more than that, I am proud that I honoured him, my parents and every other person who served before me.

@maryalford5417 Год назад

My father who was a teenager during WW1 always said that the best of British men died during the wars. He said in some cases, villages lost all their young men. It is hard to imagine those losses.

@jomc7425 Год назад

That's true. I remember reading that they would put all the young men from a village into one unit believing they would fight better alongside their friends.

@veramae4098 Год назад

"The Lost Generation" Totally unnecessary, even more so than most wars. An anarchist assassinated a Prussian royal. Prussia went on military alert. Then Russia went on military alert. A great overreaction which sent almost all the European countries into a frenzy. Secret treaties, historians later discovered, required that if nation A was "threatened" nation B would would jump in. One reason why all such treaties since are public. No one was sure what was going on but "best be prepared for the worst", and by so doing created "the worst". Oh and there hadn't been a jolly good war in a long time so let's have one. Glory and honor old boy!

@allangibson8494 Год назад

That was the tragedy of the “Pals Battalions” - entire units made up from one single town or neighbourhood - and the entire battalion was wiped out in one battle on the western front.

@stevep5408 2 года назад

This is by far the best episode you have produced. Articulately, intelligently, informatively by far and away the most respectful and sensitive presentation!

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw 6 месяцев назад

They go into some depth on the retrieval of bodies from the battlefields, where possible. It was horrific. The rotting decomposing corpses in no man's land. There were millions of very fat rats gorging themselves on rotting human flesh. That's the reality. That's why so many of the survivors didn't want to talk about it. There is NOTHING that's "glorious" about war.

@24934637 2 года назад

So many soldiers, many just boys, so far from home, and still on the battlefield. I've been there, and you can FEEL that something terrible has happened in those places. I'm sure that if someone was taken to one of the battlefields, and somehow they didn't know the history of the area, they'd still feel it too. It doesn't matter who the unknown warrior is. They all died fighting for their countries, and died for what they believe in.

@stevep5408 2 года назад

It's a shame that we their descendants have to judge the wrong of it and make on sides casualties in the service of evil!

@phillipecook3227 Год назад

I'm sorry but I don't agree they fought and killed other young men for their countries and for what they believed in: war takes on its own momentum once the killing begins.

@jacquelineclare2373 Год назад

Died for what they believe in.. or just cannon fodder? They had no choice.

@24934637 Год назад

@@jacquelineclare2373 The Germans and Japanese didn't have any choice, but everyone in the Allied Armed Forces always had the option of becoming a conscientious objector. Obviously in Germany you'd get shot for that sort of thing, and in Japan it would be regarded as a tremendous loss of 'honor' and the whole family would be ostracized.

@gerardcollins80 Год назад

@24934637 Ostensibly, yes, you had a choice, but not really. This was before the days of conscientious objection, and, like in Japan, as you mentioned, it was seen as greatly dishonourable to not serve. Many men felt pressured by society into enlisting, and they were shamed as cowards for not doing so. See the infamous White Feather Campaign. That and this was back in an era where the flow of information was controlled much more thoroughly. The men who joined thought it would be some sort of adventure and had no idea what they were REALLY getting themselves into. You just have to look at the propoganda posters of the front at the time and the testimonies of veterans to realise.

@joef8085 2 года назад

Amazing. RIP to all the men that died in that awful war 🇬🇧

@reginaromsey 2 года назад

And these casualties are ONLY those from the Western Front. Not counting those in Turkey and Armenia and the East.

@denisesudd5318 Год назад

RIP heroes

@LIzzy22-53 Год назад

What a totally moving programme. I was in tears. Thank you ….. everyone. God rest all the souls who departed this life in this pointless and horrific war, as are all wars 😓

@bob_the_bomb4508 2 года назад

It’s also worth looking at the history of the Commonwealth War Graves. Apart from anything else, it introduced the idea of equality in terms of headstones.

@peterperigoe9231 Год назад

Yes, even those shot at dawn, no matter how wrong that was, were buried with the same respect, as those who died on the battle field, or may more who died from infections after being injured.

@JustRaiHere_2023 Год назад

That was an amazing historical recount - thank you so much. So much thought was put into commemorating those lost but never returned to their families.

@59jalex 2 года назад

It is important that we never know the true identity of The Unknown Warrior.

@skylarkman2000 Год назад

Yes I totally agree. Apparently the identity of the US unknown warrior is known . That's so sad .

@Pius-XI Год назад

@@skylarkman2000 No. It's not

@samrodian919 Год назад

@@Pius-XI yes it is. If it is known then that man should have a headstone with his name on it.

@yammydodger1988 5 месяцев назад

@@Pius-XIthe unknown Vietnam veteran was identified and removed from the tomb, there were 3 bodies inside originally. He was iidentified as 1st Lt Michael J Blassie.

@Pius-XI 5 месяцев назад

@@yammydodger1988 I know. I'm talking about the others

@serenaDM Год назад

So incredibly moving. Cried at the bravery of all these men who gave their lives and died in such horror without the burial they deserved. It was a beautiful idea. Rest in Peace all the unknown warriors. Your sacrifice will never be forgotten 🕊❤

@whitedwarf4986 2 года назад

The oak coffin with the crusader sword is nothing short of spectacular. Every time I'm in London I always make sure to pay my respects at The Cenotaph and The Tomb at The Abbey. If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. Rupert Brooke 1915

@stevep5408 2 года назад

Amazing did he write anything later in the war? Sorry guess not since he was killed in April 1915. Another loss to the world, mankind, the universe.

@BlueSaphire70 Год назад

Beautiful!

@adam_p99 Год назад

Rupert Brooke’s house and his “local hangout” are in the beautiful village of Granchester, Cambridge. Worth a visit.

@y0url0calb1n Год назад

Wasn't he mentioned in horrible histories?

@whitedwarf4986 Год назад

@@y0url0calb1n I'm not sure...maybe. I've seen a few episodes but not all. It wouldn't be a total surprise if he did feature at some point.

@susanross1651 2 года назад

RIP to all the ordinary soldiers that have died & will die in wars not of their making.

@nigelhamilton815 Месяц назад

Bloody well done. Very moving indeed. The first of our special generations. RIP.

@SecretSquirrelFun 2 года назад

Thanks for the wonderful video, beautifully done. On an episode of Antiques Roadshow UK, someone brought in objects relating to the tomb of the unknown warrior/soldier. This person’s relative was asked to make the wrought iron work. It was an integral part of the final coffin design, and so several different versions were made for review, and one was finally chosen and the beautiful oak and iron coffin was made. The episode would not be too difficult to find, and the items and the information was fantastic. From memory, the expert involved was quite taken aback when presented with not just the beautiful objects, but also the story that went along with them. It’s an aspect and detail of this powerful event that isn’t really heard about. Anyway, it’s worth checking out if you are interested in this kind of thing. 🙂🐿❤️🌈

@samright4661 2 года назад

Westminster Abbey is a place i would love to visit. What a beautiful historic place..

@mattclayson3683 2 года назад

It's an amazing church - almost a thousand years of English and British history within it's walls, including the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. I've been on a number of occasions, and, every time, the Tomb has been moving for me. On pillars nearby, there's medals which were awarded to the Unknown Warrior by both the UK and the United States.

@ronaldm8235 Год назад

This country and the people of this country will honour them as long as we live.

@dennycebii 2 года назад

Watching this is so humbling.

@ianmcsherry5254 2 года назад

I can recommend the "Forgotten Voices" volume dedicated to WW1. Anecdotes from ordinary people who were really there at the front, recorded whilst they were still living. A grim reminder for us all, of the brutal reality of that kind of warfare.

@deborahfedge4272 2 года назад

Wow oh wow. What a Wonderful Documentary. Photography moves from period photos to current with beautiful, appropriate revenant music and dialogue providing history of conception of the unknown soldier placed in Westminster abbey so all could have a place to grieve the personal and collective sacrifices and losses in WWI. Very impressive program.

@allmodcons6 2 года назад

the guests of honour at the funeral were a group of about 100 women who had lost their husbands and all their sons in the war

@Vladpryde Год назад

Not gonna lie.....I choked up at the end with the reading of the Stone. Very well done.

@scottyb68 Год назад

Very moving. Just like our tomb of the unknown soldier I am very moved by the honor shown here.

@jackbrowning8013 2 года назад

I've been fascinated by this story since I first read about it. Such a morbid, yet loving tribute - I got to visit in person earlier this year.

@Lassisvulgaris 2 года назад

Then you should read Neil Hanson's "The Unknown Soldier".....

@tifKh 2 года назад

Love this channel. Started watching during the early days of covid. when lockdown was new and things were still uncertain, the livestreams were a welcome respite. Thank you again for that- thank you to everyone who produces/ manages this content.

@bayembo 2 года назад

I'll make a note to visit when Im in London. Thanks for this video. In Kuala Lumpur, the national memorial also has a unknown soldier monument, you wouldn't we have a WWI memorial here but we do. Just goes to show how far it spread. If I'm not wrong, they still play the bugle every morning. Sad times we often forget.

@simonpalmer3917 Год назад

Simply: Thank you

@leejames9422 Год назад

A wonderful account, befitting of those who laid down the ultimate sacrifice in the defence of the commonwealth. Thank you

@debbralehrman5957 Год назад

Thank you, very well done.🌹❤

@andrewdavies1417 Год назад

A great explanation, history and ultimately show of respect for the sacrifice of so many. Shame You Tube couldn't forgo advert interruption (bit disrespectful!)

@Cous1nJack Год назад

Snowflake. The channel size determines monetisation.

@paulbradford8240 Год назад

That was a great presentation. I knew some of the facts, but not in this depth. My Great Grandfather was killed on the Somme. He does have a known grave that I have visited, in a small cemetery. I have copies of the photograph of his grave with the original wooden cross. I understand the crosses with the metal plaque were offered to the families. I'm not sure what happened to his, but am aware that many rest in churches in the UK. From my own research using the War Diary of his unit, I have found the location where he was mortally wounded, to around a 500 metre stretch of road. That will be my next visit. A magnificent coffin with that Crusader sword.

@buzzukfiftythree Год назад

Fascinating video. My Great-Uncles, Henry and Ernest Clark, were two of those with unknown graves. Henry (Harry) is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres and Ernie on a war memorial just outside the village of Vis-en-Artois near Arras.

@davidyasui4103 Год назад

Thank you for the background and information on the Unknown Warrior! A somber but moving presentation.

@bob_the_bomb4508 2 года назад

I understand also that the coffin lay overnight at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover, before being transported to London.

@huibertlandzaat1889 Год назад

You made a very interesting video. Thank you for uploading.

@HistoryHit Год назад

Thank you for watching!

@alanwitton5980 Год назад

Great video very informative thanks for uploading it

@grahamwillis585 Год назад

15 Million families torn apart WW1 was such a horrific and terrible conflict. I cannot even imagine what it must have been like. My grandad served in WW2 and was one of the few who returned home but rarely spoke of it and you could tell his mental state had changed and the horror must of stayed with him he rests in peace now and I oftern think of him when I walk past the cenotaph in the grounds of Museum I now work at.

@tatianamechenici225 Год назад

Thank you.

@andrewharris3380 Год назад

Battle of the Somme, 1st wave at 07:30 William Thomas Butchers fell within the allied lines, never recovered. We will remember them all

@robertbowers9856 2 года назад

I loved this.

@gameram6382 Год назад

Just remember, 11th of November Remembrance Day, pay your respects, They gave their tomorrow for your today.

@ImperialsArmy1 Год назад

In War, Father buries their Sons, in Peace, Sons Buries their Fathers

@mike7002 7 месяцев назад

Amazing film and Justin Saddington was himself a remarkable story-teller, with every detail fluently to hand. My age is one where, coincidentally, I have grandparents and uncles who fought in the Second World War and great grandparents in the first. We didn't really walk about WWII with my grandfather, he didn't talk and when I did once ask about his DFC, he just said "everyone got one". However, my grandparents did talk about WWI, of kilts being ironed and lice falling out the pleats. My grandmother lost her brothers, which as a child I just took unemotionally, but now I can't imagine her sadness. The unknown soldier is such a special thing and a remarkable idea. That was a padre who looked after his men.

@michelehood8837 Год назад

Thank you for this wonderful video. I’ve stood in front of the Unknown’s Tomb and the Cenotaph before, not knowing the history.

@maurahagarty-bannon8032 Год назад

Highly recommend Neil Hanson’s Unknown Soldiers: The story of the missing of WWl. Details the impetus behind the creation of this and other memorials to the unknown dead and why that became such an acute painful result of this war.

@allydalessi3371 10 месяцев назад

Every time I hear the story I have a tear in my eye - for all anyone knows he could be a 17 year old Private - so sad so much life lost 😥❤️

@jimcronin2043 2 года назад

In this video we can see how a person's determination and unwillingness to quit upon rejection can be instrumental in bringing about a worthy goal to fruition.

@jamesross1799 2 месяца назад

74 vcs thats absolutely amazing I never knew that.

@johnfathers3142 9 месяцев назад

Amazing story. Not a dry eye here either!

@glynjones9988 Год назад

When British soldiers bodies were being repatriated from Afghanistan and Iraq via RAF Lyneham, and through the town of Wootton Bassett, it occurred to me that if (purely hypothetically of course, and as an illustration of the scale of loss) what might have happened if we had repatriated our dead from WW1. If we had repatriated one body an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, non-stop, then the process would have taken 100 years. If the process had started at the moment of the end of the war, 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, then Britain would have completed the task only four years ago. An identical effort by the French would be ongoing until the year 2078. Staggering, when you think about it in those terms.

@karinbinnie1862 2 года назад

The novels of Charles Todd (actually an American mother and son team) first written in 1996 bring home the anguish and devastation of WWl and the loss of a generation of British men. And we repeated it even more terribly twenty-five years later.

@nigelwilliams8537 2 года назад

Good contextualisation- thanks for the perspective and ensuring that the facts did get in the way of this particular story!

@Neil070 2 года назад

@Robert Stallard Then there are those permanently scarred or maimed, crippled, or those, like my own grandfather, who eventually ended his days in a psychiatric hospital suffering from a recurrence of "shell shock", today called PTSD (triggered by Home Guard service in WW2). Don't be dismissive of the true losses of young men and their loved ones. Then, of course, the pandemic took away many more, an estimated fifty million world wide

@q8gyj26s Год назад

@Robert Stallard You have a narrow minded view of the term. Lost doesn’t refer to purely dead. Lost refers to the general loss off innocence and trauma that that generation felt. There are many stories of lost men, ruined mentally and physically who would beg on the streets or suffer in silence later to end their own lives like some of my relatives. In terms of my own family take my 2xgreat grandfather for example: he lost a brother, 2x brothers-in-law, 8 cousins and 2 sons of cousins to one war. He was from just a country town of Bunbury in Western Australia. Think of all those families who were ruined. The term ‘Lost Generation’ is more holistic than simply death numbers.

@samrodian919 Год назад

@Robert Stallard tell that to the one survivor of the local village school in 1918

@samrodian919 Год назад

@@q8gyj26s well said sir! Those losses were horrific in terms of just one family. I salute them all. RIP them all. The Dominions came forth in both World Wars and did the British Empire proud.

@srj607able Год назад

Across Europe we all have those monuments. When I was a kid in the sea cadets corps . We always paid our respects and saluted those monuments.

@bigsky1970 Год назад

It's quality content like this that has made me a subscriber to this channel and coming back for more great content.

@maggiemitchell4359 2 года назад

Incredible story,thanks for sharing

@maxkoster3836 2 года назад

Good stuff. Keep this up.

@adamlee3772 Год назад

My grandfather was killed in WW2. He has no known grave. I’ll be in Tunisia at the CWGC Cemetery site where his name is listed amongst the missing.

@rodolfoayalajr.8589 Год назад

Great educational video friend. Rip Amen 🙏.

@JohnGalway77 10 месяцев назад

I’ll just ❤ this chanel

@purplebutterfly7257 Год назад

As a mother of two adult sons I can’t imagine them going to war and their bodies never being found. I think it would tear my heart into pieces it would be too tragic for me to stand. 😢

@jaybee9269 2 года назад

The soldier at 4:11; I’d run back too, poor bastard.

@colintook3357 Год назад

I knew most of the detail but never knew the union flag that draped the coffin had been used as an alter cover in combat, as described that is magical

@teressagriffin1096 Год назад

A very moving video. Most interesting thank you

@garyowen9044 7 месяцев назад

God Bless

@mariaedwards6371 Год назад

Omg that map of the Graves is so sad. How the deceased were treated

@paulpalmer8235 Год назад

Superb - Thankyou for posting

@kariannecrysler640 2 года назад

Great video. Thank you.

@angelaweglarska8428 Год назад

This was my grandfathers era he was in the black watch and had his lungs affected by the gas x

@reginaromsey 2 года назад

Westminster Abbey is the most incredible complex! Beautiful and steeped in History. Worthily of hours of looking. ONLY ONE PROBLEM. No bathrooms!

@nickmiller76 2 года назад

I tend to have a bath before I go.

@reginaromsey 2 года назад

@@nickmiller76 chuckle!! Should have remembered to write WC’s!

@Pius-XI Год назад

And you have to pay. Wrong for the house of the lord

@AWOLCHRISTIAN Год назад

I highly recommend a pilgrimage to the battlefields and cemeteries of WW1. It fundamentally changes you in such a humbling, emphatic way. My children and myself will be forever blessed by our experience there. We now understand the sacrifice and utter unnecessary loss of a generation of youth destined for slaughter. We will never forget them. They should all have been buried amongst kings.....

@davidruddock1422 2 года назад

No one knows Who (nation, Rank, Age ) point being NATION we will remember them ALL .

@graceygrumble Год назад

My great grandma had 7 sons. All of them fought, and all of them came home. She felt guilty all her life because everyone she knew had lost at least one boy.

@paulwjones7893 2 года назад

Interesting presentation.

@Oseiwe Год назад

Goosebumps here. Man has become so so petty in our world today; what a shame

@soultraveller5027 2 года назад

the unknown warrior was first proposed by an English military chaplain 1917 the actual process began in 1920 the american version came in a year later their war dead was a 100,000 the british and commonwealth war dead was over 800.000 thats why its remembered the big difference between both is the americans celebrate there memorial day with a barbecue and bands because it was a victory the british /commonwealth treat it in a solorm dignified way remembering the fallen

@tomhollandroberts1737 Год назад

The Ironwork for the coffin of the unknown warrior was made in the Brunswick Iron Works in Caernarfon.

@tomhollandroberts1737 Год назад

The original ironwork was considered unsuitable. Prime Minister David Lloyd George sent samples of the ironwork to his friend JD. Williams, Brunswick Iron Works in Caernarfon and requested much better items were made. Brunswick Iron Works worked overnight to produce suitable items and the next day J.D. Williams personally took them by train to London to Lloyd George. They were immediately accepted and fitted to the coffin.

@katherinecollins4685 Год назад

Really interesting

@Robby334 Год назад

Very moving thanks

@Stewart682 2 года назад

A rough calculation yields that roughly 4400 soldiers were killed for every km of trench. That's all allies and all central powers combined. It includes naval and air personnel, so it is a little skewed, but it does show the barbarity of WWI.

@russell7852 Год назад

Absolutely savage war. I have a beat up and FAR from a show gun old luger but she's 1916 and simply because of that I'll never sell

@pilsplease7561 Год назад

@@russell7852 Britain caused a lot of needless deaths with poor decisions, the entire deal with invading the ottomans got them destroyed, they lost like 500k guys trying to invade. And then they had this one general who ordered a charge along the entire front all at once got a bunch of guys killed.

@russell7852 Год назад

@@pilsplease7561 all sides used human wave tactics. The somme and paschendale were horrible figures 20k in only a few hours of combat

@benjaminelkins-green4013 2 года назад

I feel like searching for any clues as to whom this person might be takes away from the purpose. Anything that narrows down a location or battle, narrows down the relevance this grave might have for families

@3lli0 Год назад

I believe the Vietnam soldier from America's unknown soldier tomb was identified and they had to find someone else

@warrenwhitby6012 Год назад

@@3lli0 After he was identified, the tomb honoring the Unknown Soldier from Vietnam was left empty. The stone over the tomb was changed to remember all the Missing in Action from Vietnam.

@mariosebastiani3214 2 года назад

The identity of the unknown warrior isn't a mistery. Look at the names of those quarter million graveless soldiers, and those who came to the same grisly fate on later conflicts. He is all of them.

@josephwarra5043 2 года назад

They gave up their tomorrows so that we could have a today. May the Lord Keep them and Bless them always. Amen.

@SaltimusMaximus 2 года назад

Years ago I was part of a team that with great difficulty recovered the remains of one of our fallen servicemen. It was a great honour, I wish I could have done more. I can say with authority the Ministry Of Defence knows of the locations of the remains of service personnel, particularly from WW2 but won’t do anything other than block attempts of recovery. The Americans have a special unit with virtually unlimited funding that travel the world to do thid

@samrodian919 Год назад

If that is the case then that is truly despicable on the part of the MOD. Government budgets I suppose, as I can think of no earthly reason other than financial for their refusal to help lay these gallant men who gave their all, for us all who came after them. RIP them all.

@bettytyrrell940 Год назад

I am so lucky. I was able to travel from Canada to the UK and then to Arras, where my grt uncle is buried. As far as my family tree research shows, he is the only one who lost his life (at 25 yrs young) although many of my uncles and great uncles served. I wonder how many 15/16 year olds would come forward today if they were asked to serve their country. . . .

@srj607able Год назад

My great uncle died in captivity in Pyongyang prison nr 3 held by the Chinese during the Korean war . He was part of the UN contingent that came to help . He was part of the Belgian contingent. He was MIA then WIA then POW . He died in 1952 aged 22 in captivity by the Chinese in Pyongyang

@catgladwell5684 Год назад

Another pointless war. So sad.

@pup1008 Год назад

Almost half the dead were unidentified! Wow, I didn't know it was as high as that!

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw 6 месяцев назад

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Voltaire

@kidmohair8151 2 года назад

...if you break faith with we who die... lest we forget

@Nick_Thorne Год назад

my great grandad survived WW1. He was shot through his left shoulder and the war ended before his recovery. That bullet probably saved his life.

@TikTok-il9hx 2 года назад

Great video, just spoilt by the inappropriate, intrusive adverts...

@robertlangley1664 Год назад

My grandfather was taken prisoner and his brother was killed on the first day at the battle of the Somme,my grandfather would never buy a poppy or speak of the war my dad served in WW2 so my family done there bit for King and country 🙏🏼

@samrodian919 Год назад

Yes and they paid a terrible price for that sacrifice. RIP your Great Uncle.