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Oh! What a lovely War - There's a long long trail....
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a winding .... into the land of my dreams.
Oh! What a Lovely War - Bells of Hell
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The bells of hell go ting a ling a ling
Oh! What a Lovely War - Belgium put the kaibosh on the Kaiser
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Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser, Europe took a stick and made him sore, On his throne it hurts to sit, And when John Bull starts to hit, He will never sit upon it any more....
Oh! what a lovely war - Whiter than the Whitewash on the Wall
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Harry Lauder - Don't Let Us Sing About War Anymore
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Harry Lauder sings about the end of the Great War 1919
If those lads had seen just what our great country had turned into, I bet they would think twice about going over the top!
If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be here today very brave and courageous they must of gone through hell I’m seventy November didn’t see it very lucky for some RIP for those who didn’t get home bless them
Sadly they often gave their all.... Looking at the state of the 2TKs UK, one wonders!
1st world war was a war that shouldnt have happened a slaughter of youth for nothing wont say more Y/T censorship.
My grandfather also was a gunner who served in the dardenells and the western front. He also was gassed and demobbed from the western front. He joined the HAC in London after WW1 where became a Sergeant. He refused promotion during the war because he didn't want to order his freinds to there deaths. In died in 1961 due to the gas just before my parents married
Most tragic and mistaken war for modern Britain, all for European royal families falling out, and the way soldiers were treated afterwards, we weren't going to be invaded, but we sent thousands upon thousands to fight.....for what?.....a lasting horrific legacy?......the top brass and millionaires didn't do a thing....f*ck em....predator class!!!
Excellent direction. My grandad got to Mons just in time to retreat
Dad was in the British army and said the upper crust officers were great. It was the wannabes that were jerks and thieves.
Typical officer, the establishment elite get special treatment
Does anyone know the identity of the actor playing the sergeant at the train station? I trying looking him jp in IMB, but couldn't find a listing for him. He does a wonderful job of portraying NCO and I always think of him when ingraining a one.
I'm watching the great war the BBC series on CZcams the last couple of weeks and really incredible watch .😢
What is the name of this movie?
Oh! What a Lovely War
Good advice for any time or place. One of my favorite songs from that era. I have great respect for those solders.
My grandfather died in ‘65, a lingering casualty of multiple gas attacks in WW1. He went through the whole war without a scratch. Gassed, yes, but not shot. He had eight gun carriage horses shot out from under him and lost every single one of his friends. At the end of it all, it was a handshake and ‘best of luck’ as he returned to civvy street a deeply damaged brute who terrorised his children and was always a hair trigger away from serious violence. There was no PTSD treatment, no effort to assist returning soldiers. They and their families suffered unsupported and unremarked, and for what? To lay the foundations for WW2, while the toffs congratulated themselves on how clever they were at ‘biffing the hun’. Then it was my Dad’s turn.
And we have such gullible people even today doing and believing exactly what the government tells them. Ukraine is a perfect example with us in the west beating our chests to Russia. I mean why would we want to send a young man from France or the U.K. to die for a fight between Ukraine and Russia yet that’s the way it’s going. And no one dares says ‘no’ and no dares tell the media to stop stirring. It was the same in WW1 - fight for what. Germany never threatened the west and only did so when we threatened it because the elites ego was put out of joint because they thought they should rule the waves.
I am very sorry your grandfather suffered. I expect you would call me a Toff, but all classes suffered. My grandmother lost both her husband and her son in WW1. She gave the Bolitho Maternity Home to Penzance, so I guess you could say that out of death there came life. She put a beautiful stained glass window into Paul Church outside Penzance, and into Leusdon Church in Devon, as we then had land in both counties. She came from Invergordon Castle, so there was a monument I believe in Invergordon, as well as a cut-granite stable bungalow outside Penzance, complete with a memorial plaque to her lost son. / The windows are superb works of art, and give a lot of people something to see, while the bungalow has been a good home for a century, so her grief had some benefit. I never met her, so whether it did her any good, I do not know. / What I do know about your father's war, was that everything possible was done to minimise casualties. The soldiers loved Field Marshall Montgomery because they knew he cared about each and every life lost. I know this makes me sound like a "toff", but it is true - the husband of my late mother's cook, Violet, was a man by the name of Percy Cockings, and he had served in the Eighth Army, and was very proud of it. / My late father was a WW2 submarine officer with a DSC, and when he had heart problems, he went to Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight, then a service hospital or convalescent home - I forget which. There he met an older Irish lady, Betty Sheridan, and they got on so well, and as she needed a place to live, she came to one of our flats. She had been a nurse in WW1, and her fiance was killed, so she never married. She was a sister in WW2, and her convoy was shelled by the Germans, and she broke her back, though she recovered. She had a good dozen medals - more than my father - and on the Africa Star ribbon there was stiched on a silver '8', signifying that she had been under fire. She was very proud of that. / We are lucky we never saw war, due to their service. /
The Germans get “All Quiet on the Western Front”. We get a brutal musical!
No, it started with Charles Chiltern simply taking a note of the songs, the voice of the men. Joan Plowright then used it as a history of the war, which nearly got censored by the Establishment, on a shoestring budget at the Theatre Royal Stratford - she used end-of-the-pier pierrot costumes as they were what she had, rather than uniforms, and that got caught up in the Summer of Love anti-Vietnamse War movement. In the autumn of 69, Dickie Attenborough got the necessary rights together to make the film, and a cast of the whole UK theatre establishment. I'd just joined the CCF battalion at the school which had founded the National Youth Theatre movement fourteen years earlier, and had spent the afternoon sorting the stores in search of a battledress my size - an the bottom of a pile of kit about eight feet high was a box, different cloth and cut, I looked for a label - 1917. I finished off, left the box where it was, and reported back to Admin. The guy was on the phone, retired RSM, "No, Dickie, sorry, I'm pretty sue we don't have any WW1 uniforms. What is it, Rahere? We do? Well, you speak to Mr Attenborough then." That solved the issue of the box - and irritated Mrs Plowright considerably. A couple of months passed, basic training complete, orders from Admin, be on parade in uniform 0630 outside the school gates on Saturday. That meant the milk train. So there I was, feeling a right lemon, when a parp-parp came from down the road, a charabanc rolled into sight with the cast on board. That's how I took my first salute from Olivier and Gielgud, the High Command of the stage, they'd partied the night at Stratford and were now en route to Clapham Common to join the London-Brighton veteran car rally, ahead of filming in and behind the town. A lifetime later, I was a Staff Colonel, beating militarism into Peacemaking, and realised there was a hidden message to the cast. Then as now, it's the teens who die. At least the reintroduction of National Service has faded with the election. It is, certainly, something a citizen must do to defend the Nation, and that requires training. But it's not the right of the feudal rump to demand it, and at long last the end of the Hereditary Peerage is in sight.
Great film.
There is a back story to those soldiers that I find incredible. In 1914 my Grandfather joined the 5th Bat (Territorial) York and Lancs at Rotherham. In 1915 they were sent to France. Only a minority survived. Demobbed in 1919 grandad and his friends started families and then rejoined the Territorial Battalion! This to continue their Soldiering Hobby. Our local museum has a collection of photographs showing the Lads out training all with big smiles and with thumbs up! I only discovered this recently whilst researching his service in the town’s archives, he was also awarded the Military Medal. Two things he failed to mention to us before he died.
Often the best keep silent. It meant something to serve the country then. Government has trashed that since. But you still take prode in it. / I was briefly a TAVR infantryman, but the hierarchy were in the early stages of Woke, and we spoke a different language, so I left. My family has produced warriors for centuries. /
This film whilst entertaining actuallly portrayed the menntality, the horror and sadness of war and class of people. One of the best anti war films.
The finest weapon the Germans had was the British Officer class.
Really? There were some very, very good officers in the Great War. The problem with this film is that it is as much an artefact of the 60s anti-establishment as it is an accurate portrayal of many elements of the War - not least because of the huge inaccuracies of "The Donkeys" - the book that was the spur to this and other protrayals.
“We’re here coz we’re here” is the theme song for every British regiment that has ever served right up today. We don’t do heroes in Britain, we do poor bloody infantry.
shite... just watch "they shall not grow old" for the truth
Who wants to go back dumb sobs
My grandfather was at Mons. Served with the Rifle Brigade from 1909 to 1919, and was gassed somewhere along the way. It breaks my heart to imagine what he went through, almost without pause, for those four terrible years, and to know that the worst my imagination can conjure up can never match his reality.
What's so terrible about the whole thing was WWI is overshadowed by WWII. Despite more people dying in WWII, I find WWI was much worse since it was literally a meat grinder where people died for nothung
@@aishabintabubakr4944 Because WWI had a really incompetent General Staff from what I can gather.
@@labeles41 Do some proper research! The Far Left want you to believe their propaganda. The army learnt. Remember, Britain was NOT a continental army like Prussia/Germany or France. It was TINY. By 1918, it was 5 million men, and with our allies, we swept the Germans from the battlefield. We created combined arms soldiering. A cousin of mine invented the whip aeriel for tanks, based on his fishing rod, and he pioneered air-to-ground radio for artillery spotting. Many years later, he moored his yacht next to an author, and his name - Richard Bolitho - became the hero of many books. / Just find out how many senior British officers were killed on the battlefield. The Far Left tells you they were all miles back in chateaus, which some were. But plenty went right to the front. Winston Churchill - a cabinet minister - was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Scots in WW1 - right in the trenches. / People like Montgomery, who saw poor staff work, particularly early in the war, made it his life's work to be the consumate staff officer, and then a caring general. Which was why his soldiers loved him. / When Douglas Haig died after WW1, huge numbers of soldiers mourned his passing, even though he lacked Montgomery's common touch. / his nam
Just Cannon fodder
Piffle, officers were always ensuring the care of their men
Correct, it's a disgraceful lie, there are very good reasons why the British Army, alone of all the major combatants, never mutinied or indeed had any notable disciplinary issues throughout the whole war.
Yes, that's true. But it's out of the subaltern's hands here. I think what's being shown is how the number of unexpected casualties swamped the home country's resources. The War is already growing into a monster.
The degree of Communisation nowadays, I find it hard to believe anything that the media say.
Not: "what's the use *of*'". but, rather, 'what's the use *in*'' worrying': in standard English?
Great film poor history. If you want history look at the Peter Jackson film.
Each man fighting his own battle.
What a load of bullshit
In what way...??? we need some more than a pithy comment! makes you you sound like a d!ck...!
You certainly are.
You obviously know a lot about bullshit - or perhaps you don't, because this isn't.
Cannon fodder for the elites! Fighting their planned wars to make them rich! Wake up to this bs
What a magnificent generation of men. God bless the British soldier - English, Scot Welsh or Irish.
Powerful anti-war satire. The songs in OWALW are very good. Really Upbeat tones about tradgedy
KRO💙💙💙
Typical isn’t it: they only had ambulances for the officers, none for the other ranks. Until a corporal found a bunch of lorry drivers who were willing to take the wounded troops to the hospital during their lunch hour.
Complete bollocks of course, never happened and more to do with the hard-left, anti-establishment obsessions of the late 1960's. That you're prepared to take this snippet at face value says a lot about it's effectiveness and your own credulity and lack of curiosity. The whole film is full of crap like this.
If you believe that you obviously know nothing about the British Army.
Officer casualties as a proportion were higher than other ranks and I write that as the grandson and great grandson and great great nephew of many who served on the Western Front as rankers in front line infantry units .German soldiers sought out officers as targets to the point where officers went over the top wearing private's tunics and carrying rifles to avoid being targeted .
It took me like 12 years to find this until I heard this on the radio for some reason and I unused music search and found it.
Ну всё офигенно,и я не тот, кто достоен обсуждать Мэтра,но почему английский солдат уже протягивает руку с письмом? Извините.
Маэстро,спору нет.Но протягивая навстречу конверту конверт...
At first I thought the NCO was being callous but really he’s in the same boat as the other men. In many ways, I think his gruff attitude helps to give a business as usual air and prevents self pity or moping
Yeah, business as usual meaning the wounded officers get transport arranged and the enlisted have to rely on the good will of lorry drivers. Business as usual - UK style.
@@229andymon oh definitely
Great song
when white people loved their country and were not woke
The words. The music. Sir Harry Lauder. The heart swells up and the eyes water. Their likes will never happen again
Una película muy bien hecha en resaltar la estupidez de la guerra en su máxima expresión. Toda una joya en la extensión de la palabra.
Got to be one of the most iconic and legendary anthems out there, if not the best. Sang this at Stans when I first went with my dad, 6 years old. KRO
Hats off to Harry Lauder!
Looking across the ranks, they are all suffering from PTSD. No therapy for them though.,.
I surest you spend a bit more time and look at the contemporary film made at Southampton. You can find it if you search shell shock.
It's a film mate, not a documentary or a newsreel, they're ACTORS!
@@paddy864umm it’s an observation and actually the truth.
We only cracked PTSD in 2021. We sussed how trauma worked in the Iraqi wars, the first Immediate Action therapy was from Peter Levine's thinking in 1995 (Waking the Tiger), but it didn't address embedded issues. Ruth Lannius gave the hints in May 2020, I worked it through, as I'm NeuroDiverse and at least one therapy was obviously dangerous (the FDA has since banned it). but was sponsored by the great and the good in Psychiatry, so sussed how the therapies work, under the eye of Bruce Duncan Perry. We come equipped to heal ourselves, if only we'd stop thinking for half an hour. The limbic system which drains the reflex needs the trigger in the mind's eye, it's as simple as that, drop into the subconscious and let it do it's thing.
@@paddy864 It started as a documentary, brought together by Charles Chiltern. Joan Plowright then assembled it into a history of WW!, as a critique of the Vietnamese War, and Richard Attenborough filmed it, his first venture into directing.
I watched this scene and thought of my grandfather who, as Royal Engineer, saw action at the Somme and Ypres. Beautiful scene from a memorable film.
My Great Grandfather was also a Sapper in the Royal Engineers. He was killed at Ypres. RIP.
Вот сейчас другу с России в Украину хочу позвонить а он трубку не берет это всё вы поданные его величества англичане хреновы
Excellent and touching song and footage of British and Australian soldiers from the First World War.
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In the country I am from, they showed this video over and over again in 80s on TV. Sad that the world did not learn to play the "Pipes of Peace", what a difference it would have been then and now.