my great grandfather fought here with his seven brothers. all made it home. by the grace of God.
@kevin_dk123
4 жыл бұрын
may he rest in peace
@ianashby1449
4 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather bob Scott fought in the battle of the Somme he had 21st birthday in the trenches was given a hand full of raisins and and some chocolate which would have been and absolute feast in the deprivation of the trenches
@meestafreeski
3 жыл бұрын
My great great uncle drove one of the first tanks used in combat here at The Somme. He died one week before Armistice Day.
@BBY-01YAMATO
3 жыл бұрын
Instead of having PTSD about WW1 my parents said that their Great Grandfather used to brag about killing so many ppl. He also once said he shovelled a machine gunner in the back. Edit: I also found out that he also complained a lot about the mud, said it once infected his foot. Had to stay in a hospital for bit.
@R33C3.
6 жыл бұрын
These numbers are hard to take in.
@justimani4
4 жыл бұрын
Fr😔
@James_Cy
6 жыл бұрын
Absolute brutal combat.
@ahmedpasic4916
6 жыл бұрын
Cloud Nailer This was not a battle. It was a slaughter.
@dukadarodear2176
6 жыл бұрын
Lions led by donkeys. The top donkey in the field being Haig. The over-arching donkey of all being the bombastic, vain, shell of a man - 'Kaiser' William.
@ahmedpasic4916
6 жыл бұрын
martin okelly It would be much better if Politicians from both sides gathered at that field and fought instead of British & German boys who didn’t have valid reason to fight each other at all.
@shaunpalmer3216
4 жыл бұрын
@@ahmedpasic4916 and the royal families of both countries
@puffin51
6 жыл бұрын
The bombardment was typical of Haig. Meticulously supplied and prepared, rigidly organised - and completely brainless. He didn't think to lift the barrage from the German trenches, wait ten minutes, then bring it down again, to catch the Germans as they came up, expecting the assault. That would have required imagination, of which Haig was utterly devoid. At first light on July 1, he knew that the wire was uncut - and he stuck to his sacred plan anyway. He couldn't change his mind. After the Somme, he should have been dismissed and replaced. But he wasn't, and nothing else would do but to try the same all over again, but bigger. And so we got Third Ypres, also known as Passchendaele. For that, he should have been shot.
@alexanderwalle3568
6 жыл бұрын
There's a kicking HD imagery video coming up for anyone into this; I also read that all his people were weighed down with too much equipment but was unaware of how far they had to go to get there; it appears some people got capped in this film aw
@ALA-uv7jq
6 жыл бұрын
Haig was a butcher. It is typical of British mentality to allow a commander to do what he likes with his men for the sake of protecting the royal nest.
@robertdavie8815
6 жыл бұрын
puffin51 hind sight is so insightful !
@dukadarodear2176
6 жыл бұрын
puffin51 Thank you. What an ass. If he observed the Canadians even for a few hours he would have learned that "feeding the guns" with human fodder is at least foolish whereas strategic withdrawal lets you fight another day. It's who you get when the commissioned officers must come from a certain class not a certain human type. Another one that should have been Hanged was the so called 'Kaiser'. Instead he lived out the rest of his life pottering around in a mansion in Holland like some benign music teacher.
@mehmedmangala941
7 жыл бұрын
jrr tolkien fought in the battle of the somme
@arshbhullar3093
6 жыл бұрын
Mehmed Mangala Gimli was in the battle of the somme
@whiteknightcat
6 жыл бұрын
The war after this summed up in a few lines ... Melchett: Now, Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to insure final victory in the field. Blackadder: Ah, would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly toward the enemy, sir? Darling: How could you possibly know that, Blackadder? It's classified information. Blackadder: It's the same plan that we used last time, and the 17 times before that. Melchett: EX-EX-EXACTLY! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard. Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time. There is, however, one small problem ... Blackadder: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds. Melchett: That's right! And Field Marshal Haig is worried that this may be depressing the men a tad. So, he's looking to find a way to cheer them up. Blackadder: Well, his resignation and suicide would seem the obvious answer.
@johnwango2488
6 жыл бұрын
A lot of these soldiers were teenagers. Very sad war!!
@ahmedpasic4916
6 жыл бұрын
john wango There is no happy war.
@Moonlight-d7g
4 жыл бұрын
Christmas truce was the only happyness in war
@jdcp8976
Жыл бұрын
@@Moonlight-d7g happyness? More like delayed sadness
@cpt_4meric4
6 жыл бұрын
All those men dead...for what?
@mylanvoskamp474
6 жыл бұрын
Thy Dudeness because the UK's and France their fear and jealousy of Germany becoming the strongest country of Europe.
@oxprime6181
6 жыл бұрын
So the new generation of degenerates can identify as whatever they feel like
@TheSlayer.
6 жыл бұрын
For battlefield 1
@tk-jv4zd
6 жыл бұрын
rich people games
@creamynuggets8424
6 жыл бұрын
Thy Dudeness the bankers
@hectorcastellanos7270
4 жыл бұрын
So who was itbto introduced the gas
@davidmbeckmann
7 жыл бұрын
Not enough heavy guns 5 of 6 were 18 lbers and shrapnel doesn't cut the wire or hurt the dugout. 1 in 3 shells was a dud and 19,000 English soldiers killed day one.
@kipstrange1973
6 жыл бұрын
The Scottish regiments were facing the wrong way.
@oneenglishbastard87
6 жыл бұрын
@Gavin WJ Ugly bastard
@thhthhh9298
4 жыл бұрын
“ Why can’t we just no more killing and lets all go home “.
@edepillim
6 жыл бұрын
Question. After the appalling losses of day one when it became obvious that the Germans were still very strong despite two weeks of bombardment and were ab,e to mow our troops down like a sickle through corn, why did the generals carry on the same tactics right up to November, some 4 months of attrition.?
@ALA-uv7jq
6 жыл бұрын
Probably took Haig 4 months to evaluate the situation. He was an utter logistics fool.
@tombeuker7306
6 жыл бұрын
Another reason the battle of the Somme took place was to weaken the german pressure on the French fighting at Verdun because germany had to move troops away from that area to the somme. I doubt the french could've hold out against the enormous pressure the germans build up at verdun without the battle of the somme.
@edepillim
6 жыл бұрын
Tom Beuker .Agreed. This means that our troops continued to be sent to their death so as to take pressure off Verdun. This makes it even worse in my opinion. I would have just strengthened the British trenches and held that line. Of course there were political pressures to carry on the attacks regardless. I met an old lady about 10 years ago who had been christened “Verdun” presumably because she was born at the time of that battle. The Germans launched the Verdun battle in order to kill as many French as possible and lower morale.
@tombeuker7306
6 жыл бұрын
edepillim in tactical terms, It would be the most logical thing to do however, Brittain needed a victory over the Germans in order to boost morale for the people of Brittain. Also, they needed more volunteers for the army as by 1916 the number of volunteers for the army dropped dramatically. One of the reasons for that is that more and morec people knew what was happening to soldiers in the trenches.
@Michael-Philip
6 жыл бұрын
I would have ran away and found a friendly French girl.
@crystxlzx6442
5 жыл бұрын
You would of been found and put up for trial then you would be executed by firing squad
@richardanthonygilbey
5 жыл бұрын
It always stuck in the throat of the village, that those boys went to their deaths on the Somme whilst the British Army were hiding a tank. Still British casualties were over reported, and the Germans lost a million men blown to atoms with their equipment, so it wasnt a total waste of life.
@nigeljohnson8022
7 жыл бұрын
tell that to the 365000 by the end of that campaign!
@oskyperez4989
4 жыл бұрын
*The attack on the German positions was preceded by a week of artillery bombardment, where the British fired around 1.5 million grenades, in addition to ten tunnels dug under German trenches that were filled with explosives of 20 tons each. They thought that reaching the German trenches was going to be a Sunday walk, but the opposite happened, the Germans massacred them.*
@MrRobison118
6 жыл бұрын
A week keep fring artillery I bet that was a lot of money
@briantalbot394
4 жыл бұрын
*firing
@royalduos4186
6 жыл бұрын
War can be beatiful but it's very inhumaine
@oscarcallestaponen4207
3 жыл бұрын
@Royal Duos how can in any way war be beautiful
@AskDr.Stupid
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Mandarin from Iron Man 3 is narrating.
@stephanmoore9234
7 жыл бұрын
That was the theory, not the reality.
@hudaarifathul6950
3 жыл бұрын
Ur comments is old delete it
@hectorcastellanos7270
4 жыл бұрын
So the germans di not have any canons to reply... ??????
@lukehoseason8244
6 жыл бұрын
8.02 he didn't even get over the top rip
@playonkorg
6 жыл бұрын
20.000 deads in 1 hour for what ?
@Destruction1983
6 жыл бұрын
For the rich fat bastards
@playonkorg
6 жыл бұрын
@@Destruction1983 ....yep , every war deliver the rich money that you and I pay with our live. Are we nuts to fight for a story as stupids ?
@briantalbot394
4 жыл бұрын
For about 6-7 miles of extra ground taken. 🙄🤣🤣
@midnightproductions7
3 жыл бұрын
For nothing
@richardking9621
6 жыл бұрын
War is not glamorous.
@riskadwitary546
6 жыл бұрын
Oh dude that England blonde man just come from 100 mil land and just found his death
@israel.a8433
6 жыл бұрын
Haig never agreed to this they forced him to
@johnmcdonald9304
6 жыл бұрын
And thus began the end of Western Europe.
@somerandomperson467
3 жыл бұрын
Looks fun!
@lIlIlIlI-gs2qx
6 жыл бұрын
7:59 LOL THAT GUY IS PLAYING DEAD
@jspinosa50
6 жыл бұрын
All for what?
@jspinosa50
3 жыл бұрын
@flicky akhi Meaning. Was it worth it? Hell NO!
@crumb2743
3 жыл бұрын
@@jspinosa50 it wasn’t just that, it was a chain of events and mainly because Britain and France see German becoming powerful.
@videoworks7731
6 жыл бұрын
Bankers war
@nonemongo
6 жыл бұрын
the term "over the top" comes from trench warfare lol
@hectorcastellanos7270
4 жыл бұрын
Like WWII
@brucefoye6479
4 жыл бұрын
This was 1
@hectorcastellanos7270
4 жыл бұрын
Incorrect
@hectorcastellanos7270
4 жыл бұрын
Conspery... At its best
@carlosmadeira3530
6 жыл бұрын
all this for what we are in more shit today than ever
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