WW2 Camping: Canvas Officers Tent, D-Day Outfit, Lee Enfield etc 

This one is for the fallen (if you watch until the end there’s a special tribute - was quite emotional editing that part). Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching - Mike

The fact you did this without saying a single word. The end had me in tears. Love everything you do, thanks for the content and all my love to you and yours mate.

Very nicely filmed, and very respectful. My parents lived through the Blitz, I had uncles on the front lines. Let's remember that it's not ancient history. These were our families home and abroad. Well done Mike for this❤

As a United States Navy vet, thank you. To all of the veterans out there, my most humblest gratitude. My wife and I had the honor to come to the UK and to Normandy for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. We were humbled and inspired by what Britain and France endured and overcame to work toward Victory. God Bless from the USA. - A Cold War US Navy Vet.

As an American veteran, Thanks Mike. We'll never forget them.

Thank you Mike my Dad served 30 years in the Navy frrom 1948 to 1978. Thank you to all that have served and stood up for our country.🇺🇸

A beautiful tribute, Mike. I thank those who gave everything and never returned and those who came back. A huge thanks and gratitude to all who served. Lest we never forget. ❤

As a veteran I really enjoyed this thanks for the tribute Mike I served for 15 years we will remember them atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍

Great job Mike! Remember our vets!!

Well done. Thanks for your respect and remeberance.

From a military veteran across the pond, this was very nice. I love it good sir. P.S. I have a couple of Lee Enfield rifles much like yours in the video.

This wasn't just great it was absolute excellence!! The fallen and their loved ones would be greatly honoured and proud of this rendition.

Wounded British soldier pitches own recovery tent. (See slight bandage.) Great theme for this week. Interesting to see the equipment.

Brilliant video Mike, very interesting and the respect you shown was first class. You and your family should be very proud! I bet you dad was proud of you. Well done Mike. 🙏♥️

One of the most outdoorsy aesthetic videos I have ever watched.👍👍👍

Army Cadets. Late '60s, Battle Dress..... Thanks for the memories Mike. Much REspect and Ubique🇬🇧⚔

Thanks Mike but that isn't how the '37 pattern webbing is worn. Would have been damn uncomfortable.

LEST WE FORGET 👍👍

Thank you so much for the story Mike and it was emotional at the end.

Thanx Mike !! This is a GREAT video to honor all WWII soldiers. Allies & Enemies alike. Soldiers of the enemy troops were people with families they loved and who loved them as well. Take away the reason for war and we're all the same with mostly the same wants & needs. My take away from this video was what I just described. U nailed it here, my friend from across the pond. My grandfather served in US Troops the entire war. Funny I can tell by my dad & uncles ages, coincided with his leave time ... LOL

A great video. God bless our allied servicemen. As an aside. I'm 60 now .. in my teens one of my best buds grandmother's would make a button down lapel overcoat out of surplus Army blankets for her male family members . Typically it took 3 blankets to make one overcoat. I always appreciated my buds coat when he got it.... One day I was surprised when she made me one. In the late 70s I knew a local source fir surplus US wool army blankets for $3 each or $24 a dozen.. on my meager teen age earnings I bought her 2 dozen out of gratitude. She got a big tear and gave me a kiss on the cheek

Well done Mike, that is without a shadow of a doubt the best most poignant video of this year, brilliant mate. Keep up the great work that you do.

What a blast from the past. And it still has utility. Thank you for this one.

Awesome Tribute to all those who are Serving, has Served, Fought, and Died for Freedom. God Bless All of You

Great video, a real time machine. The 11th is Veteran's Day here in the US. Remember!

I always wear my poppies proudly...Bless you for this...brings back memories of too many I've missed for so long...x

What a fantastic wee tribute. Genuinely moved by this - even although you had the luxury of two eggs and beef! Well done on a perfect wee vid to remember our fallen - for me it is my great Uncle Duncan Donaldson killed in Ypres just a few days shy of his 18th birthday. And for my two nephews currently serving in the Royal Navy. We will remember them.

Awesome Mike My father was a WW2 Veteran. He would be 106 this coming January 13th and my mother would be 103 in the same month. They had 14 children together, me being the 12th. Thank you for the remembrance of veterans of war. I salute you!

Well done Mike, a tribute any vet would be proud of. Thanks for the respect 🫡

I say old chap, i had to break rank to receive this transmission, almost blew my cover but made it back from behind enemy lines. I see youve done a splendid job, defending on foot, whilst the messerschmitts flew overhead being chased by the Spitfires. A very poignant tribute. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. LEST WE FORGET.

Yep you look like an authentic soldier with this one buddy great job!

Mike that was one of the best videos i have seen this year. As a veteran, but also a fifth generation British soldier tracing my generations back to the Crimea and Boer Wars I grew up with Grandparents, and Great Grandparents I knew in my childhood who served WW1 & WW2, as well my father and then myself who did our own tours in turn. My childhood was growing up in the protective and inspiring shadow of such men and ironically we grew up playing in some of these tents and even as a very young lad in the late 70s I can remember camping out in one with my Grandad who also taught us how to brew up using a 'Benghazi Burner' cooker whilst teaching me to bull up my boots as a young lad. It was great to see this and bring back some childhood memories and I really appreciated the poppy and the respectful act of remembrance at the end of this video. One of my Grandfathers who served in the BEF, came back via Dunkirk, then after becoming a Paratrooper went over to Normandy at D Day., made it all the way through and came home but never once spoke to his family about the war. When I was just about to join up myself he said to me 'A soldier or veteran never has to ask himself if he ever did anything worthwhile with his life’.

Awesome and exceptionally well made with so much thought and effort put into it 👏👍

I had an uncle who landed on D Day and was taken POW 3 weeks later, another uncle who was with the 8th Army through North Africa and Italy. My father was out in Burma and I served for 9 years in the British Army. Thanks for this, had me thinking about the 3 of them. As a quick aside, That isn't the way the webbing goes together. The straps you have around your legs go from the back of the belt over your shoulders with the ammo pouches on them. The small pack fits as you have it. This is 37 pattern webbing, issued 1937, which we used when I did my basic training in the mid 70s. Once again Thankyou for this sombre remembrance.

Mike thank you for the Remembrances of all veterans. GOD BLESS All OF Them.

I remember getting a proper canvas tent for Xmas one year - about 1969 from memory - and apart from the poles and pegs being aluminium and the colour being navy it was identical to this in every way... Great memories and it lasted me nearly 30 years before the canvas was too rotten to be used any longer. We would put down dad's tarp which he used as a trailer cover to use as the ground sheet covered with old curtains normally used as drop/dust sheets and then an old sheet and blanket on top to sleep under. Spent many happy summer nights ''camping'' in the back garden with that tent. Thank you for reminding me of some very happy times. As for the camp bed/stretcher, I slept for months on one of them as a child when my grandparents visited us from the UK - we lived in NZ at the time - and we were one bed short, a neighbour lent their stretcher and I volunteered to sleep on it. It wasn't that bad (I would have been 11 at the time) and you soon learned not to move about too much in case it tipped over. Great memories, in many ways times then were better than they are now even if it was the simpler things that made it that way.

Helmet is back to front! But your poppy is in the right place. Great vid

I loved sleeping in wall tents. Did my time in them at Scout camp. Went 5 yrs in a row to it, when in the BSA.:Have fond memories of it, Camp Lewellan. Even had a trading post, did horse back riding, had a pool nd learned swimming, ever tapped out for the OA..... loved it! Always wanted to put a stove jack in and do some hot tenting, in later years. I m 70 now and a Cold War Vet from 70s. My 155 Howitzer unit guarded front door thru the Fulda gap in Germany. Tined with NATO Forces at Graf and Wildflicken in the North.. Brr it was cold there.

Here in the USA, Veterans Day celebrates all those who served. Memorial Day is for those who died in the service of our country (the ultimate sacrifice). Thank you for honoring their bravery!

Great video, I want that tent! The older stuff works wonderfully well, IMO.

Thank you Mike, brought goosebumps. And thank you for wearing your Poppy.

Wow Mike Old chap! 🙏 What a brilliant and beautiful transmission on the wireless. What an amazing dedication and remembrance to our fallen. Splendid Thank you 🙏 LEST WE FORGET. The ending got me too. 🙏🙏🙏

Excellent video. Many family members served in both World Wars and in the conflicts that followed. Respect to them all.

Thank you my father in law was a waist gunner in a B17 out of Horam England after twenty missions wounded over germany but the crew returned safely and he lived to 96. we have all his flight logs and letters which tell the story of these brave British and American air crews.

Very respectable when you see what our heroes went through.....

🇨🇦 Thank you for remembering.🇨🇦

Thank you, what a great way to remember them.

This is awesome! Thank you

Considering how old the footage is, the quality is pretty good.

As a United States Marine, thanks Mike! My father served in WW2 and Korea, I myself served during the Vietnam conflict!

Brilliant Mike, absolutely brilliant, good on you. "Lest We Forget"

cool vid on camping trip thanks lee

Very nice man 🎉

Great video and tribute

I passed on an opportunity to buy a Lee Enfield for $150 when I was 18 and I still regret it. We call it Veteran's day on this side of the ocean but I still have a moment to remember that some of my ancestors had brothers who didn't come home from WWI. This is a brilliant way to honor the fallen I think, and it's well appreciated by this American veteran.

What a perfect video , many thanks , greetings from the netherlands

This is a great tribute to all fallen soldiers in the UK n the USA. Thanx for your patriotism.

My dad didn't die during the war, he served in Egypt, had some funny stories, didn't talk about the bad much. When you put your kit on, I had a vision of my dad doing the same thing, very emotional that last bit ❤ thanks. We will remember them ⚘️

Thanks Mike for spending some time for the fallen. I'm an American Vet and I'm damn proud to have been there. It was very nice that you did not forget all that have fallen and died. You sir are a patriot.

I just learnt somhing. Had to look it up but it turns out the MK3 helmet you are wearing went into service for D-Day! We were still being issued them on the late 70s early eighties. and the camp bed was still a unversal issue then to, got issued one for the fire service strike in 1977 age 17. Great content and tribute thank you.

Most excellent and touching video Sir! Soldiers shall not be forgotten in this house!

This was awesome. It was very atmospheric with no speech involved. Very moving at the end, I think I got something in my eye.

Well done, Mike. I will remember. My Dad served in WWII.

Such a great finale! Thank you so much .

Thanks for this. Dad was in the Pacific Theater and Godfather was in the European Theater. Bless ‘em all.

What a wonderful video abs a wonderful tribute. We will remember them.

Awesome 😎

What a brilliant watch that was. Former Royal Marine here, love watching your videos. This 1 was special. We will remember them.

Out of 16.1 Million Americans who served in WWII, there are only approximately 122,485 U.S WWII Veterans still alive in 2023 and ALL are estimated to be gone by 2036. I could not find accurate numbers for British surviving Veterans of WWII but did find that 3.6 million personnel from the United Kingdom served during WWII. Very moving Tribute to the Veterans who served and to those who gave their ALL. We celebrate our Veterans Day (for all who have served at any time on November 11) tomorrow and remember our lost soldiers on Memorial Day, the last Monday in May. I am a Veteran of the Viet Nam era, having served 1969 to 1972. I salute all Veterans, American, British and Allied. Thank you for your service. Kind Regards, Randy Wiley, Arizona, USA

Thanks Mike!

Yes we will! Well done my friend 🤠

I think you nailed this, you made very subtly clear you knew there was historical inaccuracies without saying a word and paid a wonderful tribute to our fallen. We will remember them.

Very interesting, thanks from Italy 🇮🇹👍

Totally Awesome Tribute, Thank You Sir.

That is a seriously fast one room cabin.

Poignant. Fantastic that Mike.

Beautiful video thank you 🌲🙏🌲

Thanks for the video Mike.

When you go home, tell them of us and say for your tomorrow we gave our today.

Omg brought tears to my eyes absolutely amazing x

Enough said, thanks Mike 👍

Thank you for honouring the fallen. War takes so much from so many people. I remember that there were two WW1 veterans in the village where I grew up. I only knew one of them. He did not forget, and neither should we.

Lovely sentiment Mike and an excellent video

Beautiful

As ex army. And a wild camper this was bloody great. And almost overcome at end..well done

Brilliant video. Love the WW2 camping equipment and apparel. Well done. 👏🏼🫡

Thank you for this moving reminder.

A welder's glove! Cool. Thanks for the tribute.

Very well done. Thanks!

We will remember them

That was really touching

What a wonderful video and tribute! Authentic. Can’t imagine what my father and his fellow soldiers went through during WWII. Thank you for giving us a glimpse of what it was like and I pray we don’t have to go to war ever again.

Very well done and very respectful ! “With the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them “ let’s we forget !

Well done Sir, a fitting tribute.

Thank you for making this!!!!!

I just wanted to say; "yes, we will remember them", always!

That was quite the ending. Well done.

This is a fabulous tribute, thank you

the intro was sweet. Only thing missing was a Willys MB. In the pan to the woods between scenes of kicking leaves out of the tent, I kept expecting to hear tank tracks. Well bloody done!

'Who do you think you are kidding...' 🥰 Happy days . Thanks for this Mike and thanks for the tribute. Very moving. Loved it.