The Battle of Neustadt: Sgt Sidney Cornell & his Call of Duty | April 1945
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- On the night of the 7/8 April 1945, British Paratroopers of the 7th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, of the 6th Airborne Division, were ordered to capture two bridges in the German town of Neustadt. Among the Paratroopers was Sergeant Sidney Cornell, a Section Commander in No.5 Platoon, B Company.
In this video, I detail the heroic actions carried out by Sergeant Cornell and the charge his Company made to secure the Neustadt bridges.
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Thank you for this great tribute to my Great Uncle Sidney Cornell.
your great uncle was a great man. I'm curious, was he mixed race, since I've read he had an African American dad and British mum but it didn't specify if she was white British?
Activision, the producers of the CALL OF DUTY games, are releasing their next game in November, whereby you get to play as a character based loosely on Sgt Sidney Cornell.
All I am going to say is, they best do this warrior justice!
And whilst we are at it, can we stop erecting statues of football players and start putting up statues of heroes like this!
What about Pat Tillman?
I hope they do him justice, but quick correction. Activision is the publisher and distributor for the call of duty series. Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Warhammer games are the producers. I believe the next release “Vanguard” is being produced via Warhammer Games.
I do agree with the hope of doing justice for those referenced.
@@kiajd338 Sledgehammer games.
@@ChandranPrema123 Yes... Not warhammer xD Thats a different game series..
update for you, they didn't do him any justice. They just use his identity to play the race card so this game can be call "progressive". Vanguard campaign is the shittiest, most insulting ww2 story I have ever seen, yes including BF5.
An amazing tribute to a true hero. The fragility of life cannot be overstated.
My Great uncle served in 1st Bt HQ company in Arnhem at the same time as this. Makes me proud to say I knew a man in the same regiment as Sgt Cornell
Hey Sidney was my 3 x great uncle x
This is a channel that really lives up to its title. Thanks for reminding us of these blokes. I wonder if any of Sidney's sons are alive today; most certainly grandchildren, if any. Time moves on. Rest in peace.
hi i am sidneys 3 x great neice
Penny Cornell is my first cousin and Sidney was her grandfather. Unfortunately Sidney's grandson Aaron, Penny's brother and my cousin passed away 2 years ago and Sidney's son Alan, Penny and Aaron's dad passed away 6 years ago. I'm extremely proud of Sidney and for Pen xx
@@simi174uk Dear Simone, thankyou so much for your kind reply! I'm so glad Sidney has descendents who can continue to remember him and honour his name and sacrifice, especially since we have just passed another Remembrance Day.
The war was almost over. I think reading about deaths like this is quite sad, those lads were so close to the end. Reminds of another soldier Jake Wardrop who died only a few weeks before VE day and was killed in a Ambush in Northern Germany.
The Parachute Regiment had some high quality excellent battalion commanders during the war; Pine-Coffin, Frost, Dobie, Otway, Jock Person and others. All awarded the DSO and many had the Bar added as well
How can anybody put a thumbs down.
Because they are loathsome rats
Cuz they cry that the nazis got their asses kicked by a non white
get a bit overwhelmed when i think about not just sacrifice but the amount of people who had to sacrifice everything and their families who had to live on. I don't think we'll ever truly fathom the scale of that war, hopefully it'll never happen again. Amazing men and women RIP
Sidney also took part in the drop on June 6th and fought in Benouville and Le Port, near the Benouville Bridge (now called Pegasus Bridge) where he acted as a runner between Pine-Coffin's HQ and the various company's and platoons as they had almost no working radios because most were lost on the drop. He was later wounded in Normandy whilst performing the same role. Sid was also the Battalion boxing champion and beat Irishman Michael McGee. Sidney was good friends with Ron Perry, who jumped with his stick on D-Day. Ron said Cornell was one of the most respected men in the battalion. There was more than one black Paratrooper in the 7th Parachute Battalion.
I think there was another mixed race guy two rows in front of him in the photograph
@@colcot50 yes, there was some debate over which one was actually Cornell. There was another black paratrooper in 7th Para also
Consistently my favourite channel on youtube. Well done again. The greatest generation can never be forgotten.
RIP HERO
Prayers of Love and Comfort for all of their Loved Ones!
Just amazing. This guy is a hero!
I always love reading stories from World War II about non-white troops fighting the nazis, one example of which was during the Battle of France in 1940, where the nazis loudly complained about having to fight against and getting their asses kicked by the french colonial troops, whom they saw as "subhuman".
They also had Muslim SS soldiers aswell. Two divisions worth infact. Odd times. Lol
We can never be thankful enough that these men lived and died to defend our future.
Well this is embarassing. I'd recently complained in a comment about the integration of Black men into ww2 parachute regiments was inaccurate (in regards to COD Vanguard.)
Thank you for educating me about my own history and the lesser known pieces of POC history I was ignorant of.
how did u not know the british army was never segregated by colour
@@simmosimms2841 it was actually.
There were several black soldiers in the Airborne divisions including one who served at Arnhem. Hey listen until about ten years I never knew there were any! So it's not surprising many people are not aware of this. Sidney was born in the UK, his father was American
Good on you for recognising and acknowledging your lack of knowledge.
The military is the greatest neutralizer for 'race'. When you suffer together all you end up with is brotherhood.
I don't think the US military got that memo throughout the whole war they segregated coloured troops and refused to let them fight even when they came to the UK US soldiers tried to get them banned from British pubs and restaurants to which when told to fuck off pretty much came back with US military police let's just say British soldiers and civilians there didn't take kindly to this and defended the black soldiers the Mps actively shot and killed one the rest where arrested.
Look up the battle of Bamber Bridge.
Rest in peace troopers thank you for your service
Such gallantry! It's devastating that so many lives were wasted in such a terrible war.
What a hero, may he rest peacefully
Should make an entire television series about this one random guy!
I just about lose it every time I watch one of these.
I wonder what it would feel like rollin across a bridge with a bunch of guys that you might no even like much but are willing to kill or be killed for
Warriors die - maybe even in vain - but that might be worth the cost of that feeling. Hard to tell.
Because of the LFE channel these brave souls really do Liveth For Evermore. Thanks from Canada.
I raise my glass in silence…
This is a beautiful video. Well done, and thank you.
Best channel on CZcams. Well done 🤘🏻
hi, my name is Aimee Cornell and this is my 3 x Great Uncle Sidney, so very proud
Heroes. Gracias for the video.
Again excellent.
Heroes ... everyone of them!
Your videos are so well put together! So good! RIP to them all
The photo of the CO of the 7th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (Lt Col Pine Coffin) has almost a Prussian Officer type dueling scar on his face, that many German officers of the same time had.
Even his name has a deadly ring to it 'Pine Coffin'..
wow / the guy is a legend
So close to the end of hostilities...so very sad.
Good heavens, what a name - Pine-Coffin! But obviously a very able commander. And you can't praise enough the sort of character that is Sgt. Cornell. He faced down certain death and did his duty to the very max.
Can you do a video about Robert Henry Cain, VC? Jeremy Clarkson's father in law.
There is a little monument to him near where i live in Southsea. Thanks for telling his story.
Pine-Coffin. What a name.
I said to myself the same thing when his name popped up on the video. Perhaps a name more appropriate for the First World War.
Loving your work fella.
Those thumbs down must be from the KKK as no one in their right mind would consider Sidney anything other than a proper stand-up hero.
Every video is fantastic mate !
Although I never knew my great uncle I am truly proud of his achievements and his military recognition for his historic deeds
Would love to see a video on Eugene Bullard " The Black Swallow of Death "
And a Portsmouth boy to boot. What a bunch of heroes. Hearing about casualties in these late war airborne ops is tough.
Did he go to the Far East or Palestine after VE Day like other men of 6th Airborne?
I love this show.....
Heroes don’t always wear capes.
SPIN CHILLING!
Thankful that men like this have lived.
How could you not make a video of this man? The United Kingdom is a better place because of men like him. Hell, all of Europe is. Rest in Peace Sargent and a peace well earned.
This comment section is a far cry from the mess of the CoD trailer comment section where the majority of people insist that there were not black british soldiers mixed with whites or women soldiers on the front line.
You need to show them this video. This is the character that the new COD has loosely based their character on.
This evidence of one black soldier doesn't change the big picture. The number of Black people living in Britain before the war was only a tiny minority. If you want to prove your case link to some regimental photographs of the period that show black soldiers in any number, you won't find any though.
@@snowflakemelter1172 and your point is? the fact that people say it weren’t any at all this can debunk that
@@TimezOfInfamy nobody has said that though.
Excellent
Hero's.....all of them.
Pine-Coffin…..ok.
Damn CoD vanguard for destroying Sgt Cornell’s legacy.
Thank you for making this video. I was ignorant in thinking call of duty made the character up for diversity reasons. I stand corrected 👏
Same here. I felt so bad bc I assumed no way that the British empire would let a black soldier fight with them. Im happy I was proven wrong (and that vanguard is doing diversity correctly than BFV)
They put him in there for diversity reasons. They could have picked any of the other 19 people that died with him. He was only picked because he was black.
@@cannowuppass8214 yea, has nothing to do with him receiving the DCM, the _only_ reason he was picked was because he was black. You're a joker, buddy.
@@LSPD1909 Yeah has nothing to do with it. How many of those were given out in World War II? How many of their names do you know? How many of them are getting put into a video game? GFY
@@cannowuppass8214 it was the British army's second highest decoration and he had served with his unit for the entire theatre up to his death and had become a section commander.
Even if he had been chosen for *the sole reason that he was black* how exactly is that a bad thing? He was the only coloured man among his peers and was fighting for a country that was still completely segregated where he could be turned down as a tenant in a building based of his skin colour.
I've seen your other comments and responses, if your only intention was to point out that other men died along side him and deserves more than an honour roll at the end of the video, 1) why would you be so upset on only this video and 2) why would the majority of both your arguments be focused on his skin colour.
I've also got to say that if you can overlook his career and heroism, the loss that occurred to his wife and children etc because of some stupid political opinion you hold based off of his race, it seriously makes everyone doubt your stories of your service. To most you seem like a bitch POG at the best of times.
I see where the name of your channel comes from.
Hes being honored in a game called enlisted on june 6th
How about Walter Tull? Who rose through the ranks during WW1. He once was a professional football player but, when war broke out, Walter joined the Army to fight for his country. A British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent, he was the first black man to lead white troops as an officer and was killed in action. And please do remember the entire Divisions of West and East Africans, and the Indian Divisions who fought so well in East Africa, North Africa and Italy - and even more so against the Japanese - and totally and integrally alongside the regular British battalions. Extremely respected and honoured. DCM? How about all the VC winners!
Brave man should have got a VC.
I've got mixed feelings about this. Yes, he was an extraordinary man. But the reason the VC has the reputation it does is that you have to be something more than extraordinary to win one. Being awarded even the DCM recognizes outstandingly brave actions.
RIP
Can you do a video about 2 sqn raf regiment next?
True valor is colorblind.
Does anyone know what the conscription rules were in Britain by 41? Sydney was a 31 year old married man with two small children when he died. I understand he could have volunteered but I don't think a man in similiar circumstances would have been accepted for hazardous duty in the US Army- I could be wrong. It just seems very strange very few miners or ship builders were drafted and lots of them were much younger, very fit and un married.
This is 1945. All Parachute Regiment soldiers were volunteers, not conscripts. Conscription rules in the UK were you were only not drafted if you were in a vital industry and could not be replaced by a woman.
The National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 set the conscription age for men from 18 to 41 - to the best of my knowledge there was no allowance made for a man's marital status or dependants. "Reserved occupations" were exempt from military service and included miners (for many years it had been illegal for women and children to work underground), police, medical professionals, and some other jobs. Some forms of heavy labour were considered not feasible for women (such as shipbuilding, iron & steel manufacture and others).
@@philipr1567 Funny you should say that. My Great-Grandad was sent down the pits as a child, presumably before those rules were enacted.
During the outbreak of war, he wanted no dealings with such a thing, and didn’t enlist. He wanted to work and raise his family. But when Conscription started - after Dunkirk I believe? - he was rounded up and sent off.
He would have been in his early 30’s, so quite old for the time and ended up in the Royal Artillery in North Africa. Short and stocky build by nature and knew how to look after himself. Was very strong. Contracted Malaria and eventually sent home. The Malaria stayed with him up until his death.
H heart to those paratroopers who lost their lives in this operation. To hell with the Nazis.
I would not want a commanding officer named “Pine Coffin” I would take it as a bad omen
I really sorry but the CO name was pine coffin!! Dear god what must his men have thought?😳
If he was good they wouldn't care less.
My Grandfather, Col. Eric Woodman!
That LT. Col.’s name “Pine Coffin” that’s a fkn name!
When someone is sent to fight and kill you .... and then you learn his name ..... Arrrrrh !
R.I.P Airbornes
I always cry when any British Paras regroup in the afterlife 😥
1 in 10,000
COD Vangaurd didn't do this chad justice
o7
God bless the Parachute regiment
Gonna give this one a pass. Feeling the fatigue a lot lately.
1st
19 died....
But THIS one was black. Lets focus on him.
This one was also the highest-ranking and had been awarded the DCM.
@@user-rf9mx4qf7z And do remember the entire Divisions of West and East Africans, and the Indian Divisions who fought so well in East Africa, North Africa and Italy - and even more so against the Japanese, including VC winners.
So we’re mainly talking about him just because he was black. It’s unfortunate that he was killed but what’s even more unfortunate is the exploitation of his death because of the color of his skin.
What a stupid comment.
Ah yes his skin colour. Not the fact he was a hero.
@@kayleigh949 Oh yes why wasn't anybody else's name mentioned in the title and why was his skin color. Just because you died in a war does not make you a hero. I'm not saying he isn't a hero but if it wasn't for his skin color we wouldn't know anything about him. This is coming from a veteran with over 20 years and tours in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
@@cannowuppass8214 How dare they refer to "Black athletes" as "Black athletes". How dare "Black life's matter" refer to themselves as "Black life's matter." The very fact that you felt the need to have a public out cry about the labelling of his skin colour in a tribute video to this hero says it all. No one else has an issue with it, apart from you.
@@woodybenjam If you think you're so smart give me the names from memory of the other men that died at the exact same time and for the exact same reason. Just one. You can't. Are their lives less valuable? No they were not. They were just as heroic and died just as gruesomely. They weren't singled out because they weren't black. GFY