The Unknown Warrior Story | The Bands of HM Royal Marines | Reaction 

You can say what you want about my country, but we know how to honour our fallen. To give the ultimate gift to your country should be honoured.

Such an emotional service... for remembering UK's fallen heroes BUT also all of the allies from across the world who fought alongside us ! Humble thanks to all who lost members of their families . THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ...NOT EVER .

The British Unknown Soldier was laid to rest amongst monarchs. This signifies the immense respect and honor bestowed upon this soldier who remains unidentified. It is a symbol of the sacrifice that countless soldiers have made for their country, and the gratitude that is owed to them for their selflessness. The decision to bury the Unknown Soldier with kings demonstrates the recognition of the magnitude of the loss that war brings, as well as the importance of acknowledging and honoring those who have given their lives in service. The Unknown Soldier's resting place serves as a reminder of the bravery and valor that are integral to the British identity, and the need for continued reverence for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. This act of commemoration and respect is a testament to the deep sense of patriotism and gratitude that is felt by the British people, and serves as a powerful symbol of the nation's unity and resilience in the face of adversity.

Nice reaction. The Unknown Warrior was such a good idea that both France and the USA have their own unknown warriors/soldiers. In France I believe he's buried under the Arc de Triumph, and in the USA in Arlington. The USA have a special guard called Sentinels who stand watch over theirs. In the UK the tomb of the Unknown Warrior is the ONLY grave in Westminster Abbey that it is forbidden to stand on. You can jump up and down on the tombs of past Kings and Queens, and of great men, such as Winston Churchill, but you can NEVER set foot on that tomb as it would be disrespectful. Royal Brides have a tradition of leaving their wedding bouquets on the tomb as a mark of respect.

It's an interesting fact that the tomb of the unknown warrior is at the very entrance of the chapel so it doesn't matter whether you are a King, Queen prime minister, president or supreme leader of a country you must give way to the unknown warrior.

They lost there lives for the rights we are loosing today, weve sorely let these brave men down

Lest We Forget, God Bless every one of those that gave their lives for their Country.

The poppy wreath being laid on the drum altar just lovely.

This always brings tears and gratitude in me. Every year on rememberance I give thanks and always will.

Utmost respect to all our fallen totally without regard to race or religion, they gave the ultimate gift, at the going down of the sun and in the morning we WILL remember them! Eye's front SALUTE.

All the metal work for the coffin of the UNKNOWN WARRIOR was made in the Brunswick Ironworks in Caernarfon, North Wales by order of Prime Ministor David Lloyd George.

Absolutely amazing reaction 😊. Thank you for reacting to UK content especially military 🇬🇧. Much respect Birmingham UK ✌️.

Thank you for reacting to this, watching this always gets me emotional since many of my great great grandfathers served in the British armed forces during the World War One.

The last bugle call on the video was called SUNSET, It was played in the Marines to recall them back to camp at night! It was played at my Father in Law's funeral as e was an ex Royal Marine Commando

Thank you for your service Many respects from 🇬🇧

Heartbreaking but at the same time warming, imagine a mother that believes that this soldier is her boy, the pride must be immense, the soldiers grave at Westminster is the first you see above and beyond any KINGS grave and the ONLY grave no body can walk over such is it’s esteem in British culture and history

During WWI there were millions of British Empire Soldiers fighting alongside each other in France so the unknown warrior could have been from any country from the empire of that time, India, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian etc. anywhere. No one knows that’s the point. The cenotaph in London too is a commemoration of all the lives lost in defence of this country, they came from all over.

This ceremony with the drums etc is usually performed infront of a packed arena. This was filmed during the pandemic so it was just the military and chior

The history of this tiny island is a pretty amazing one. Britain made a massive contribution to the whole concept of western civilization from the Magna Carter onwards. The list of technological and scientific advancements that spread around the world from the UK is amazing. The nation that a immense cost in blood and treasure decide to wage a crusade to end slavery for the entire world. The motherland or source for nations like the USA (though they would probably dispute it), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, not the forget the Commonwealth. Not too shabby for a tiny island people.

I love your respect....you are blessed

Beautiful reaction thank you so much for your sincere kind words.

@bored Ruky on top of the coffin was laid a medieval warriors sword and it was bound to the coffin with iron made in wales. The King chose the sword 'The medieval crusader's sword was selected from the Tower of London Collection. The cortege, escorted by the pallbearers and followed by the King, members of the royal family and ministers of state, arrived at the north door of Westminster Abbey.8 Nov 2020' There are quite a few articles written about it if you look on google UK. Thank you for sharing your thoughts .

i would just like to point out, how many ,milatry women are included in this video, from the trumpet to the end, all inclusive, warms my heart

The last post Bugle always makes me cry 😢😢😢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🇬🇧❤️❤️

thanks for posting this and for your respect.

Your not allowed too walk on that stone. ❤️🇬🇧🙏

Heartbreaking we couldn't bring them all back.😢

You are allowed to walk anywhere you want to in the abbey, on tombs, graves, whatever . . . . but you are forbidden to walk on this one..... and I mean forbidden

Good video 👍 good reaction 👍 you stay safe

Thank you from a Brit😊

Being English its very hard to not tear up watching this... react to how the Victoria cross is earned

it means the soldier was truly unknown!!!

God bless God save my country ha men

There are more than 3000 tombs and resting places of monarchs, and we’ll known people buried in Westminster Abbey (for example Charles Dickens, Sir Issac Newton, Chaucer, Handel, and so many more. Those tombs and resting places on the Abby floor are ‘just there’ you can walk apron them visiting the Cathedral. Not so, the tomb of the ‘unknown Warrior’, you cannot walk across it. It’s a bit like the Arlington tomb of the unknown US soldier, closely guarded by those elite ‘sentinels’ I’ve paid my respects at both tombs, I lost several uncles and family members during those conflicts, it’s all I can do and hope we’ve learned something, but even now in 2024 we have learned nothing....ll

The chances are, that soldier may have only been 18 yrs old. 😢😢😢😢🇬🇧❤️🙏

Music kills me every time

One fact, the President of the United States gave permission for the British unknown soldier to receive the medal of honour and when the United States had their own unknown, the king awarded the US unknown the Victoria Cross

thank you this video and the respect you paid, i salute you

we are the best

No doubt the most beautiful and heartwarming video I've seen today.. Btw men will find these more touching and emotional than the girls

Very moving.

Most Gave Some, Some gave All.

Well said Love 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️

Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed my music.

If God knows him he's not a soilder but maybe a angle from 🇬🇧

Couldn't really hear your question on the arrival in England. A Battleship is as powerful as warship got, no one gets six for one mission, because quite simply no one needs six, one, two, or maybe very occassionally three to a battle was enough. Destroyers (like Verdun)(three or four to a Battleship) accompany Battleships for added firepower and positions.

This must have been done during Covid as there’s no audience 😢🙏❤️🇬🇧🙏❤️🇬🇧

and that is how you do it

As a marine thanks

As an ex Officer this just soared above your head. Don't bother thinking about it further.

HMS Verdun was specifically chosen to honour the French.

We ended slavery we are one

My Great Grandmother would have been there, she lost two sons n the Ist World War and by paying respects to this one unknown soldier she was paying respects to her own sons. One son was buried in Belgium but the other one was not found and is just commemorated. How sad not to be able to bring your child home.

War graves is a slang word or to be more blunt a collective word for mass grave where essentially a hole would be du about two meters deep in which case the dead would have been simply bulldozered or thrown onto a pile in the hole and buried over as there wasn’t any time to properly bury the dead, where there were rare cases of soldiers who were digging trenches to accidentally uncover a mass grave, although to be fair being given your own grave and coffin would’ve been. Considered a luxury, whilst the many more fortunate sods who’ve died had to share what was essentially a hole in the ground with over ten or more other people without a tombstone to mark their bodies, however in about 60% of the time or most of the time, the dead were simply left and abandoned being too dangerous to retrieve or collect or they just didn’t have enough time to bury them, leaving them either hanging on the barbed wire or half buried in a crater all the while the crows and rats enjoyed a feast of the dead where, some rats grew so large they resembled small dogs or even cats due to the amount of free food available to them, so much so they were called and quiet rightfully so corpse rats, all the while diseases and filth plagued the trenches whilst the carnal stench of the dead and dying, mixed in with the acidic tang of chlorine gas filled the air along with the smell of burnt gunpowder, all the while lashing rains flooded the trenches so much so people were drowned in mere puddles, all the while the biting cold gnawed at their fingers and toes as frost bite and trench foot slowly ate them alive and in the summer the blistering heat burnt any unlucky victim out in the open for too long leading to large cases of heat strokes, all the while the reek of the dead became even more prevalent, that is uncles a sniper takes you in the head, or a stray artillery round buries you alive or pepper you with shrapnel, all the while dark clouds of death and a slow agonizing death waits for a favorable wind as your skin and at soft tissue suffers from severe chemical burns and blindness, all the while the chlorine causes you to drown in your own fluids. These are some of the horrors BOYS, not men boys as old as fifteen were forced to endure and if they refused to fight, then they would be imprisoned for cowardice and shot via firing squad, all the while everyone harasses you for not fighting, and if you do fight and break, then they would simply shoot you for insubordination or even cowardice, and if you’re lucky, they’ll send you to a mental hospital in which you will be tortured and experimented on to study the signs and results of PTSD and if you’re really really lucky and manage to make it throughout the entire war, not only are you physically and mentally scared for life, but you would be socially abandoned as your wife or fiancé leaves you for another man, but not only that but being a former soldier who now has either no arm or no leg or looks like an abomination, in a time where social programs was considered a far right ideology in which even a service pension if they were lucky enough to get, was only about thirty dollars in todays money, all the while being incapable of working or doing a job since everything had to be done manually, all the whileyour friends are all dead and your family doesn’t even know that you even exist, all the while your wife or even mother would leave you in favor of some coal miner or some American in which you find yourself having an extra siblings or children despite being away for over a year or more. All the while people try and rebuild their lives from the bombed out remains of their homes and cities, Berlin was effectively nothing more than a pile of rubble after the war. So whenever anyone thinks that they have it hard then please reconsider that there are those who’ve had it far worse to far less deserving people.

You speaking over the trumpeter playing the last post is incredibly disrespectful, if you did that at a military ceremony or any ceremony remembering our fallen heroes you would definitely be dealt with either by angry British citizens or by angry British military veterans. I am British and I had cousins who were in WW2 and served the UK, one of my cousin's was in the RAF ( Royal Air Force) flying in a Bomber as a Radio Operator/ Rear Gunner, he joined up in 1940 and was killed in 1944, he is buried in a British War Graves Cemetery in Italy, he came from Northern Ireland and he is one of my heroes just like all our dead from WW1 to Afghanistan. I am a supporter of our British Armed Forces which should always be respected even by those not from the UK. When respect is not shown to those serving in our British Armed Forces, our Military Veterans and to our heroic Military Dead many of us British Citizens get very angry. 😡😡😡😡💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦

I know you like doing videos on the USA history, but it's not really an old country. I've got socks as old as the USA. If you want to learn history you need to look at the UK British English history don't forget the English language started with us in England.