Sentry Duty (World War I)
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In order to break the lethargy of such a life, soldiers were given a number of duties to perform that would keep them busy.
These duties included: inspecting weapons and equipment, digging and repairing trenches, filling sandbags, or emptying latrines and flooded sections of the trenches.
But the most important task of all was: - Sentry Duty.
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The job that gets you taken down first in every Stealth Game.
Quit commenting on all the videos I watch man, reported for stalking.
@@LeeEverett1 Quiet, Lee. You should be spending your time not raising Clementine.
And when your friends find your body they just say ah must have been the wind
@@LeeEverett1 bruh u serious
Y e s
Sentry: "This is a nice spot."
Stealth Players: "He is an obstacle."
@@LonelySandwich
Go away peasant
@Kevin Truong Sentry upgrades to dog companion.
Spy sapping my sentry
@@bloxracer3627 not to mention the no sleep sentry.
Also Stealth Players: It’s time to delete the obstacle...
(sound of a sniper being loaded)
...for good.
I read a first hand account by a British soldier during WW1, about sentry duty. The teller was just 19 and a private, when he was on sentry duty at night. He was so exhausted that he briefly fell asleep while standing. He awoke to the words: "This man is sleeping!" He was immediately awake. Next to him was the CO of his battalion, a major, and a sergeant the soldier knew well. The sergeant knew that falling asleep on sentry duty would mean a court martial. Possible a death sentence. So the sergeant said to the major (who had just arrived in the trench): "He can't be asleep, Sir. He just gave me this pencil a moment ago." Which was not exactly true. But the officer either did not have the time nor the evidence, so he just walked away. At the time of telling this story, the sentry, the narrator was 104 years old. He still thought fondly of the sergeant who lied to an officer to save his life.
Sad
That sergeant is a chad.
meanwhile the major gets to sleep a solid 6 hours in a cosy chateau 5 miles behind the line
My NCOs would never 😂
0:23 guy has a fixed his bayonet to his revolver, legend.
&?
@@GWRProductions-kg9pt he's a freaking legend, he affixed a bayonet to a firearm that doesn't come with a bayonet lug. And a revolver at that
@@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 one of the Webley revolver models had accommodation for a bayonet.
@@Tom-2142 really? Never knew that.
@@Tom-2142 You never know when a rat decides to fight back.
"Do your sentry duty in your backyard, living room, or kitchen"
My brother sneaking downstairs to eat shredded cheese at 3AM:
Lol
Haha lol
remember, 3 whistle blows for the right, two for the left, and one for the middle
Or just take him out quietly, as one person isn't that much of a threat.
Did simple history remaster "life in trench warfare?" Neat
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Why u doing this?
@@LonelySandwich i asked?
@@LonelySandwich i asked?
@@LonelySandwich i asked?
Rapper: I'm from the trenches
Ww1 soldier: hold my rat
YES SIR REHA
RAT
@@ryanchen9223 we have the same name
Sentry duty: no
Alcohol correction station: yes
@@DarrensGeneralInfo nope
British soldiers during free time: Have you completed your 3rd task?
Russian soldiers during free time: Who’s next for Russian Roulette?
ironically the eastern front between russia and germany had no actual trench warfare they were fighting normally
OmeTroller *bruh -_-*
@@LonelySandwich imagine being so desperate you try to click bait a comment section
Germans: *Ich warte auf den Nachtisch!!*
@@LonelySandwich man stfu
*"Most soldiers described their sentry experience as being half dead"*
Had this experience during one of our biggest military exercises at the time. The order came from the high command, telling us to remain in "active reserve" in case of enemy contact, meaning we technically didnt even have sleeping schedules. My personal best of continuous state of being awake was close to 34 hours, after which I ended up passing out into a cold and wet marshland having been released from my sentry post by an Exchange guardsman. You've never felt so heavenly to sleep, even if just an hour and a half and in a literal bog, than after having been awake for almost three days and with minimal rations.
- 401st Defense Company, 40th Military Police squad, Satakunta Airforce, Finnish defense forces.
Jumalauta
Wow
dayum
an ex marine with a wojack as their PFP? sus
@@marcowulliampopirers2216 he is not marine, and its finnish military that is mandatory so its not sus at all.
As a soldier this still takes place within every army in the world. It is a vital role and is both important at home and abroad while serving overseas.
You have my teachers last name
flex
yep...
and still is pretty damn boring...
i remember when i was in the military in my country, that to keep myself awake i did little steps back and forward, hummed some songs... even did some pseudo meditation, and of course talked to myself...
nothing compared to the hellhole of a warzone, but sentry duty is hard and vital just as it was back in the great war days.
Just yell at mama dog and enforce no running rules to stay awake
is there any accomidation for the sentry ?
Soldiers: eating rats
North koreans: what a luxury
In the 'Only Fools and Horses' episode 'A Touch of Glass', Del mentioned North Koreans eating "poodle kebabs, bull terrier pie, sweet n sour greyhound and Jack Russel and chips".
Fry that rat and you got some mammal chickens
^ very American of you.
Sentry duty that’s an important job to have in WW1 My history teacher didn’t talk bout this. But my 7th grade teacher did
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@@teodorogerald ok🙄🙄
Because it wouldn’t be relevant to the topic as a whole.
@@LonelySandwich bruh
0:28 This homie legit eating a rat...
Tasty
Fur and all
Desperate times; desperate measures
Yup. Was very common.
The rats got as big as cats, just imagine some cat running around the duckboards. The thought of a rat going near my mouth would cause me to vomit
“ I am the dumbest man alive.”
“ I’m a guard in a stealth game.”
“ You’re clearly dumber.”
You're*
@@ciaranbrowne2 bruh
@@stormtroopertk8 lol love the irony 🤣
As a person who has eczema and astma I can't imagine how I would survive in the trenches...
I dont think they would have taken people with asthma
I have asthma, but it's not so severe, mashallah
@@Masada1911 asthma was always a rejection.
@@ilovemanunited6179 idk some people faked it, but if u had asthma and got a shrapnel or anything to the chest, you were out.
@@ilovemanunited6179 it depends on what kind of asthma you have. Maybe before there is no proper medication on asthma but now. You will be required to carry inhaler with you all the time and you will be injected flu shots yearly
*A sentry kit is available near your location*
Ww1 soldier: ehhh I'll pass
I heard a crazy story once, can’t remember where from. But in Vietnam they’d lay claymores facing outwards from the camp with a sentry on the trigger, one night the sentry kept hearing random noises from around the camp, he never heard anything dangerous enough to detonate, thankfully. In the morning they noticed all the claymores had been turned around to face into the camp
Sentry: “I hope no attack happens”
Enemy Sniper: “It’s free real estate”
Seien Sie höflich
Seien Sie effizient
Haben Sie einen Plan, um jeden zu töten, den Sie treffen
Yeah why wouldn't the sniper just take the easy target?
"The men could rest knowing they were under the watchfull eye...of Larry"
Oh no I don't feel so good
3:08 when I see yet another among us meme
And yet there are still people who find them funny...
@@alanjassybayev2428 Right? When I see among us memes, Id always be like, "heh... Amateurs"
I suggest you go out see. You're suffering from meme overdose.
3:55 : "I'm going to assume that was a grape juice, Private."
Probably didn't get court martialed because they needed every man they could get.....but he probably got latrine duty for a week.
My great grandfather was a sentry for the Austro-Hungarians. He said it was impossible to sleep while on duty, all you could do was pray as there was no more dangerous duty than this.
*A sentry gets killed
A Texan with a hardhat: "Sentry down!"
*Jerry's shellin' my sentry!*
*Need a teleporter here!*
Man imagine how much it wouldve sucked being an austrian sentry at the isonzo
Sentry: Is guarding the trench
Enemy team: CAMPERS
Who else loves coming here when a new video pops out
No i totally hate it.
Me
*A Sentry kit is near your Location*
*But it’s a Smg Sentry*
Smg sentry is best sentry
I KNOW YOU
O man gues I won't be playing as Tachankas grandpa then
*A flame trooper kit is available near your location*
@@tactical_idiot3786
Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine
They forgot that the Germans can use invis watches to sap their sentries with sappers
Too early for that...
*SPAH SAPP’N MAH SENTRY*
heh tf2
Spy is french tho :l
@@shaddowcat1911 It should have been, They forgot that the Germans had Uber to tank the damage from their sentries
Got a story my great grandfather told my dad about sentry duty dont know if it was in the battle of the somme or not, but he fought in the batlle.
He was on duty one day keeping an eye on things when another soldier walk up behind him and pushed him aside and asked him "what's going on watchmen?"
Followed by immediately getting shot in the head, he said it looked like his head got blown off. If it was not for that poor man pushing him a side to have alook, i would not exist today.
God can you imagine living in a trench literally made from your brothers from back home... ww1 was a whole different kind of war and ww2 can’t even compare to some of the horrors that such close stagnant trench warfare gave
Yeah . That's exactly why I love this topic.
Ww2 killed more
KibbleIoan18 numbers are one thing, actual horrors like the first use of flamethrowers, modern machine guns, SMG’s, poison gas, grenades, the first tanks, aircraft and zeppelins bombing cities I’d say the First World War was much more horrific because all of these things were first being introduced and by ww2 they were just modern war tools
@@ioankibble8866 numbers is different. Imagine being a young man on the front lines wanting to serve your king and country, then seeing yellow wind towards you. You choke and writhe in agony as you spit out pieces of lung and drown on solid earth. The horrors of ww1 were much different than ww2. Going into ww2, people knew about gas, bombs, and more. Nothing since ww2 has come close to the trench horrors of gallipoli, western, eastern, middle eastern, and african front
Most casualties from WW1 is from machine guns
Imagine surviving the conditions until the entire war is over. I would not want to eat rats or get disease's
After WW1, came the Spanish Flu.
I'm glad we bigfoots don't go to war
You humans are crazy
Someday I’m gonna be like you
If you did, I would hope you would be on our side. You'd make excellent forward observers and infiltration specialists.
@@bakerboy8910 Modern War
"Sir, something seems to have walked right past our guards, and through the main gate."
"What is it?"
"I..I can't tell, it's all blurry."
Inaccurate, these sentries weren't equipped with two 6-barrel gatling turrets and a quadruple rocket launcher
Dear... God...
@NOAH CLOSE so did you get the joke then or?
@@thatstockimageguy1067 whats the joke?
@@LyonPercival normally in video games, Sentries have machine guns or rocket launchers as they are automated
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There's multiple different narrators but Chris Kane (I think that's this guy's name) is the most common one
My great-grandfather was a sentry for WW1. He said it was a horrific and traumatizing time.
The Gurkhas were really good at sneaking up on enemy sentries. They used to feel boot lacings in the dark as allies and axis tied their laces differently and if you were axis you had your throat cut.
I have also heard Australian sentries also checked they had their metal collar badges on before going on sentry duty because the gurkhas would also feel for those (Japanese didn't have any) and they also felt steel helmets in the dark to check nationality.
Soldiers still perform those duties in combat. I did it during the Iraq war at every outpost we operated out of. We would rotate usually 6 hours on and 6 off while about 3-4 platoons or company rotates between base defense, quick reaction forces, show of force or recon patrols, with a squad or platoon resting for the day. Countless hours looking through night vision and staring at the same scene for hours.
My great grandfather talked about this to my grandmother.
He was Danish farmer (forced to fight on the German side). I didn't know it was called Sentry Duty, but there is no doubt in my mind that this is what his job was. All of the details are here: The Two man guard posts, and the fear of falling asleep and so on and so forth.
I do have something to add, since this video focused on the triple entente perspective.
He mentioned that the french would often use black skinned soldiers (likely from the colonies) armed with knifes for the job of night raider. So he remembered that they would sometimes enter Sentry Duty, only to realize that the guys they wore supposed to release was already dead and had had their throats slit in the middle of the night.
Truly scary stuff...
Love the haunting ending, that man peering through the loop whole was magnificent.
*Erect’n a sentry!*
*Bap*
*Bop*
*Pow*
**sentry upgrade noises**
Ha hahaha! Did you forgeth about me? *Zapper noises*
Spah sappin mah sentry!
No drinking and sleeping on the job, ‘cause that’s how they get ya
Chose your death:
Throat slit by enemy while asleep
Firing Squad by your Comrades
@@Marinealver firing squad it is then!
No drinking?A Brit..😂
That Sentry at 4:02 be like:
⬆️↗️➡️↘️⬇️↙️⬅️↖️
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4:27 that German soldier must be strong af to lift that sentry
he got the gains
The animation quality has risen up in quality so much. Bravo, Simple History!
As a night guard, yes it’s difficult to stay awake, thank God for Simple History Videos
Your lazy tho there at war it’s a difference
0:37 make a video on the webley with bayonet
I’m a simple man, I see a simple history upload and I watch it
Ah ha
Komedy
When i saw this video i had a déjà vu of this, I think in a previous life I was in ww1 serving as a sentry duty
Watching this while on duty... pinnacle of my career.
I hated doing that. Laying in the rain at night after three days of no sleep. Only fearing to get caught sleeping.
Rough honeymoon?
Irl or in Cod?
@@igesbpro I've never seen a WW1 cod
Sentry going up
Bro, you posted cringe.
You gonna lose subscriber
@@wildbaguette6767 Cringe going up.
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Engineer gaming
You guys pay so much attention on detail! Great job
I cannot tell you enough how much I enjoy your content. I have learnt so much that I didn't know about the war. New subscriber right here 👍👍👍
Please make videos about Hans Ulrich Rudel, Adolph Galland or even ace Hartmann. They have amazing stories of their own and you make awesome content. Cheers from Bolivia🤘🏻
I did 18 years in the Infantry. I've done more than my fare share of "Sentry Duty."
Thank you
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Is no one going to talk about the intro music, it's the instrumental of the song called "hitler has only got one ball" made in 1939
When we learn from simply history more than the time wasting teachers
0:24 I'm imagining soldiers in the trenches on their phones nowadays. Then around Christmas someone makes a discord server with both sides of the trench in it.
they probably wouldn’t have internet but that is pretty funny
Another great video. Thank you as always!
Image getting your watch busted and you don’t remember if it has been 1 or 2 hours
Imagine being a sentry and your relief doesnt wake up . I've been there . I was a radar watcher and a deck sentry in the navy . MF'er shows up thirty minutes late and steals some of my precious rack time .
0:29 IS DAT BOY EATIN A RAT?
Luv this guy’s voice bring so much more to the episode
Another great video. Keep up the great work.
Nobody literally nobody
British soldier: Eats rat very casually like a burger.
Unoriginal
They were starving, you probably would too in that situation
@@George19090 they were trying to supplement their bland regular rations it seems
@@Tom-2142 Corned beef and hard biscuits.
I can feel the frustration of doing sentry duty by imagining it in my mind.
Love your videos!
Always another great video!
I got here early finally 20 seconds after post
I got here 14 minutes...
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I was assigned sentry duty at a WW1 reenactment event back in September, and my main job was watching the fire pit (rear line camp, not frontline).
I had to guard the kitchen from Raccoons too, so it was a long job.
But the next morning, the fire pit went out and they were all looking for the culprit. My only explanation is that I was the last one awake and the next sentry up didn’t do his job.
Congratulations on 400 videos Simple History!!!
Beautiful and amazing 👏 as always, thank you 🌹
The only experience of sentry duty I had was In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Hi im new but i like your channel and i have learned more than in school XD even if im German the only thing why i can English is cause my dad is American
I always love the last 10 -15 seconds of these videos.
Lets go! More WW1 videos! Love them
Ah, yes. Sleeping on fireguard when the drill sergeant or commander comes in. Glorious memories!
Fireguard . You must be a Marine . I was a squid.
@@victorwaddell6530 Nope, good 'ole army!
@@psychoticperi7703 I didn't know that the army used that term too .
@@victorwaddell6530 I’m a marine, we use the term “firewatch”
Germans: *I fear no man*
Sentry units:
Also Germans: *but that scares me*
But that thing...
It scares me...
@@sviatoslavs.1305 No I ain't talking about that freak alright?
He's not here isn't she?
How do I get this thing off?!
Hi Love your Channel I really love your medieval and world war 1 videos! Please make more medieval stuff that would be amazing!
your animations are getting better and better
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I don't know why but this remember me when I was in school we had something called ,,elev de serviciu" which means that 1 day of a year you and another kid from your class will be a kind of security guard,it was a lot of fun you was at scholl but you are not in class,it was cool we just ordered pizza and ring the bell of the scholl when it was pause
We had that in Serbia too. I was never picked for it, except in high school when our culinary teacher had us sell sandwiches and juices in the hallway. Then i got to hand out with a couple of kinds that were on watch duty.
@@GrimFaceHunter I did this only 1 time in the 7 grade,at 14 years
Same but it would change every day
@@GrimFaceHunter in Romania we don't have quisines in schools,here every kid bring food from home
Keep up the great stuff
Feels like Ive been waiting for *CENTURIES* .
One of my favorite and unfortunately forgotten WW1 movie is “THE LOST BATTALION”. American soldiers forsaken by their French allies and stuck behind German lines and fight to survive. Now that is a movie! 🇺🇸
4:22
Boogey man in my closet
*GOOD IDEA*
I can't stop loving how these videos end
this channel deserves more views!
Which grade you had from history in elememtary school? I'm curious :D
In college why
There has got to be some sentries who just started rapping diss tracks at the enemy
So this is basically the origin of the fireguard shift. Thanks WW1 for giving teen me no sleep !
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Alright everyone. It’s been a while since I posted this and I now have learned that this comment is cringe. I had watched a video before I edited it that stated a comment that said “I edited this so you don’t know how I got these likes.” My brain thought it would be funny if I did the same with my most liked comment. (I got more hate then laughs). But I just wanted to say I am sorry for the the cringe, and I hope you have a nice day.
Original comment ( I think, it’s been a while): soldiers: eating rats
Gulag prisoner: Luckyyyyyyyyyy
Well the Rats are the size of Cats. So free meal? 😉
@@DSMCasual I prefer dogs tho
Fun fact: nolans original comment is about eating rats
@@hiimryan2388
Oh No? 😨
Na I have a pet RUSSAIN
dog disgusting
Im interested in their food menu tbh..
the formal menu for the brits were canned foods but they often resorted to eating anything they could get their hands on
Being asleep in guard duty is still one of the harshest offences one can do in the Finnish army training, Conscripts are routinely reminded that falling asleep while on guard duty even in exercise can lead to military court. Realistically, if done in exercise that would mean maybe few week time of not getting any leave from the barracks, but still. It is serious. You will not be promoted a corporal after that. There is a good reason for it . A sentry is responsible for the whole unit. If sentry fails while the others are resting the whole unit is as good as dead.
Nothing speaks comradery more than sleeping while your brother in arms watches your back.