I've done many a battlefield tour around France. Never ceased to amaze me the beauty in some of those locations, rolling countryside, trees, forests. And also the amazement of just kicking up the soil around my feet only to find live rounds and spent cases. In some of the forest locations there's evidence of munitions and weapons scattered around, overgrown with foliage or rifle barrels sticking out of the ground. I've always considered these areas as sacred. Below my feet could be the remains of soldiers from both sides. I recommend a battlefield tour to anyone interested in WWI.
I went to Ypres on a school trip back in ‘97 and we saw so many unexploded bombs, shrapnel and artillery shells and the teachers kept reminding us to watch our step and not to touch anything at all. I’ll never forget that.
We don't have any WWII or WWI battlefields here in Texas, but I've still found lots of bullets. Most are from hunters, but some date from the Civil War and a few are probably from frontier days.
2 of my great grandfather's served in the Somme. -one of them was shot and injured and while on the ground was hit by a gas attack. He was rescued and made a full recovery in Glasgow -The other one. Survived and waited through the war and came home to a 2 year old child to raise. Sorry I don't know their names. My father does but I am fascinated by ww1 and 2. This was a great video
Richard, I've stayed at Chevasse farm a number of times. A great place to stay and your brother, Simon and his wife/girlfriend, Michelle are excellent hosts too. My grandfathre went through Bernay, Trones and Guillemont on his was to Les Boeufs, before being serverley wounded in the Guards attack, September 16th 1916. And for those of you who don't know, Richard is an ex-Royal Marine, Senior NCO with awards for bravery. On a recent visit, I could not find the massive unexploded shell and the smaller, but still large shell in Trones Wood. They must have got round to finally removing it. I hope you don't mind me telling everyone this Richard. If you do, let me know and I will remove it.
Hi Richard. I've been to the Somme twice camping with my wife and kids. We stayed in a campsite in Albert. We've walk the fields and found loads of shrapnel, Barbwire, shrapnel balls, bullet casings. Saw live shells on the side of the road (didn't go near those). We walk along a trench line behind Albert that was ploughed up and found a lot of coloured broken jars and bottles. It's unbelievable the amount of stuff being churned up. Visited a lot of graves. I personally didn't have any that died in WW1. I'm from Ireland and apparently 50,000 Irish died. My sister in laws Granduncle is buried in Pozieres where the Tommy bar is. I didn't know that until I got home. I was gutted. He was injured in 1916 and was killed in 1918 in September I think. He won the MM. The most personal item I found was an ivory toothbrush belonging to a soldier. Thanks for bringing back the French memories.
72mossy Hi, thanks for your message. Sounds like you found a good selection of artefacts, it’s quite addictive isn’t it. It’s a shame you weren’t aware of your wife’s great uncle. If you let me know his name I’ll send you a photograph of his commemoration.
Hi Richard. He was my sister in laws Granduncle. His name was Patrick Tobin 2088. I did find information on the Commonwealth War graves sight. He's mentioned on a panel in the war graves in Pozieres. Unfortunately his body is lost.
Thanks Richard. This was in my recommendations. Probably because I've watched similar videos. Thanks, and I've liked and subbed. Hope to get out there next year. Two of my great uncles are buried out there somewhere.
I worked in the Solomon islands. We used to dig up live artillery rounds and ammunition as well as grenades ECT on a regular basis. I lived on top of Henderson air base which is now the countries main airport
Very Well Done! It's true that the British .303 cartridge is rimmed, and the German 7.92mm cartridge is rimless. But the French 8mm Lebel cartridge is also rimmed, though the case is shaped differently than the British round. Have you visited any French battlefields?
Terribly missing my strolls around Montauban, Trones Wood (I guess that's the shell hole if not Bernafay), Flers and Guillemont. Hope to come back soon...
One nation producing 275,000,000 artillery shells in under 5 years is mind boggling. At current rates, it takes America over 2,000 YEARS to produce that many shells!
Small technical notes: What you pointed out on the Enfield is the bolt _handle_ not the bolt. The bolt is inside the action. Black powder firearms have percussion caps. Those are primers. The French 8mm cartridge is also rimmed, but the case is heavily conical, so it's easy to spot. Great video in any case, just thought I'd let you know so you can be even more accurate.
Thanks for your comments. One of the reasons I'm enjoying making the videos is I am learning so much, so thanks for your correction. Glad you like the video
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Very well presented, are you on good terms with the farmers around Guillemont? I've been yelled at a few times in that area when walking ploughed fields so I dont try anymore which is a shame as its one of the battlefields where my great grandfather fought.
crispy68 Thanks for your kind comment. I wouldn't say I'm on good terms but I have chatted to one or two of the farmers in the past. Sounds like you've been unlucky to be yelled at. Try walking the fields again.
crispy68 i would give up so easy, next summer me and my friends from east germany are planing to visit an ww1 battlefield in france too. It would be a shame not to go walking the fields if you’re in such a region. Here in the Oderbruch the ground is also littered with relics from the second world war, since here was the last large battle before berlin we had very intense combat here and it left its traces everywhere
We should all take in the numbers quoted in respect of shell production yet alone all the other armaments consumed in wars. You don't have to think for too long to realise who are the real winners in these conflicts.
How can a farmer safely operate a tractor, on the former battle fields, with so much live shells and bullets still in the ground. Could a plow, on a tractor, accidentally set off a shell?
So, do the plow tractors have blast shields or something? Or is UXO not that big of a deal to them? I guess what I'm asking really is if they have issues with UXO exploding when they plow the field still, of if that's even a concern.
I have been visiting the Somme Battlefields since the early 90's, I have never know of a tractor that has been blown up or over by an exploding shell. I spoke to a farmer a few weeks ago. He has been farming on the Somme since the 60's and he has never had steel plates on his tractor. I get the impression it doesn't bother them. Hope that answers your question.
That rifle should it have been British will have a serial number, that number might be found on what regiment it was issued to, or even if it was a battle field recovery and reissued and sent back to the front.
The rusted British bayonet shown was an early one still retaing part of the curved "quillon" that was officially removed on later examples as the other bayonet shows. Excellent video and nice fresh approach to a very sad period in world history and such a damned waste of brave people on all sides. The War to end all Wars? Seems such a totally wrong statement now.....
Woe, awesome, what a terrible “war” over nothing, and who won, and who lost, the fighting men, horrible and I hope the bastards that started that shit are rotting in Hades, in eternal torment, paying for their SINS!,
@@Useaname after the war the Russians used German P.O.W.s to dig up German graves and burn the bodies of dead Germans so mothers and wife's did not have a place to grieve and regardless there all soldiers doing what someone forced them to do
"Percussion cap"? Seriously? If you are going to guide people around the battlefields of WW1, at least try to get yourself up to date. Percussion caps were introduced in before 1850 and were ancient history by WW1. What you are referring to is a "primer", which has been in use for metallic cartridges from the late 19th century to the present day. If you find a weapon using percussion caps, you are looking at something that was an old relic by the time of the Somme. And if you're going to discuss the identification of cartridge cases by their construction, you'd do well to at least point to the "groove" and "rim" that you refer to, and preferably present the cses side by side for a visual comparison, as those who don't understand it already will need a little help.
You know, as a child, I lived near a regional airport & visited a crash sight once, took a souvenir of a melted piece of a C-47 that had gone down in the woods on approach. That act bothered me, as even as a small child, I knew it was wrong to have taken that part, as people had died there & there I was picking over them like I was in some flea market. I eventually was able to go back & replace that piece where I had found it & said a prayer for those that had been lost. My point is, that even as a child I knew it was wrong, while you (Richard Porter), as a grown man do the same thing for Likes & Views & Subs & see nothing wrong with it. smh.
Grandad on my mothers side laid bullet riddled (machine gun, one bullet left in situ and ONE of the OTHERS he was given back after German field hospital surgery at Monche Lagauche, which he made into a pendant) in no mans land for two days after the German assault of Operation Michael. Healed to minimum, taken to Soltau POW camp, starved and survived, and the site which is visibly now ERASED FROM HISTORY and not visible by google Earth or maps. As far as I can tell from his discharge papers, not given even A MENTION OR DECORATION from his aspirational battlefield bayonet charge, despite him keeping a handwritten attestation of his deeds by a superior who wrote his family and reported him "last seen at...", sent to his kin, before they EVENTUALLY found out he was alive. I am biased. YA SO??? So fk me then. He sacrificed a LOT for us all, and if the Brit govt didnt want to recognize or honour a newly minted Canadian who volunteered HIS LIFE TO THE BRIT CAUSE, an UNDER AGED YOUNGSTER, For his contribution and hardship, then I am MORE THAN ENTITLED to fkn disrespect the "leaders" that forced his volunteerism to be "erased" from history, too. War IS FOR SURE hell, the milquetoast mancunt leftard assholes and feminazis HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD WAR IS as they selfishly pretend to align themselves with such suffering, but I guarantee you the silent majority of non Hollywood heroes of such wars were NEVER GIVEN THE RESPECT THEY EARNED and yet were ignored. Ps If I catch your disrespectful perverted nose ring wearing, sacrifice defiling, snowflake generation of fucktsrds denigrating the Vimy Memorial or ANY Memorial again in my presence, YOU WILL WISH you were in the front lines for the entire war instead, You should be so lucky as to flaunt your fucking arrogance in the face of such freedom-sacrificing memorials, but once, in YOUR lifetime. DO NOT EXPECT to get away with it AGAIN!!!
How about toning down your language on this or any other war site. Learn to show some respect. These men died for your freedom, and all you do is swear and think that you are so tough while sitting behind a computer screen.
I've done many a battlefield tour around France. Never ceased to amaze me the beauty in some of those locations, rolling countryside, trees, forests. And also the amazement of just kicking up the soil around my feet only to find live rounds and spent cases. In some of the forest locations there's evidence of munitions and weapons scattered around, overgrown with foliage or rifle barrels sticking out of the ground. I've always considered these areas as sacred. Below my feet could be the remains of soldiers from both sides. I recommend a battlefield tour to anyone interested in WWI.
I want to visit all the places and maybe found some objects to show my kids in the future… Can you guide me?
I went to Ypres on a school trip back in ‘97 and we saw so many unexploded bombs, shrapnel and artillery shells and the teachers kept reminding us to watch our step and not to touch anything at all. I’ll never forget that.
Love from India love for history too.
We don't have any WWII or WWI battlefields here in Texas, but I've still found lots of bullets. Most are from hunters, but some date from the Civil War and a few are probably from frontier days.
Young men from Germany, England and France went there in August 1914 thinking it would be a terrific adventure. How sad!
One of those young men was Adolf Hitler
@@joannsissy4768 Wilfred Owen also, our best First War poet. He was killed by machine gun fire 3 days before the war ended.
2 of my great grandfather's served in the Somme.
-one of them was shot and injured and while on the ground was hit by a gas attack. He was rescued and made a full recovery in Glasgow
-The other one. Survived and waited through the war and came home to a 2 year old child to raise.
Sorry I don't know their names. My father does but I am fascinated by ww1 and 2. This was a great video
You guided us on a tour of St. Miheil salient and the Muese -Argonne Cemetery 3 years ago.Had a great informative time! Thanks Again
Richard, I've stayed at Chevasse farm a number of times. A great place to stay and your brother, Simon and his wife/girlfriend, Michelle are excellent hosts too. My grandfathre went through Bernay, Trones and Guillemont on his was to Les Boeufs, before being serverley wounded in the Guards attack, September 16th 1916. And for those of you who don't know, Richard is an ex-Royal Marine, Senior NCO with awards for bravery. On a recent visit, I could not find the massive unexploded shell and the smaller, but still large shell in Trones Wood. They must have got round to finally removing it. I hope you don't mind me telling everyone this Richard. If you do, let me know and I will remove it.
Actually interesting, well produced and enthusiasm driven videos. Great stuff.
Thanks for your kind comment
Great. Also discovered many items on battlefields. Keep posting these. Good work
Hi Richard. I've been to the Somme twice camping with my wife and kids. We stayed in a campsite in Albert. We've walk the fields and found loads of shrapnel, Barbwire, shrapnel balls, bullet casings. Saw live shells on the side of the road (didn't go near those). We walk along a trench line behind Albert that was ploughed up and found a lot of coloured broken jars and bottles. It's unbelievable the amount of stuff being churned up. Visited a lot of graves. I personally didn't have any that died in WW1. I'm from Ireland and apparently 50,000 Irish died. My sister in laws Granduncle is buried in Pozieres where the Tommy bar is. I didn't know that until I got home. I was gutted. He was injured in 1916 and was killed in 1918 in September I think. He won the MM. The most personal item I found was an ivory toothbrush belonging to a soldier. Thanks for bringing back the French memories.
72mossy Hi, thanks for your message. Sounds like you found a good selection of artefacts, it’s quite addictive isn’t it. It’s a shame you weren’t aware of your wife’s great uncle. If you let me know his name I’ll send you a photograph of his commemoration.
Hi Richard. He was my sister in laws Granduncle. His name was Patrick Tobin 2088. I did find information on the Commonwealth War graves sight. He's mentioned on a panel in the war graves in Pozieres. Unfortunately his body is lost.
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing this with us. It's a wonder anyone survived the incredible artillery barrage from both sides.
Thanks. Yes I agree surviving a First World War bombardment must have felt like a miracle.
Interesting video!
Thanks Richard. This was in my recommendations. Probably because I've watched similar videos. Thanks, and I've liked and subbed. Hope to get out there next year. Two of my great uncles are buried out there somewhere.
The Somme is on my bucket list
Great video mate really enjoyed watching that! Thank you very much for sharing
This was posted on Reddit, great video, super interesting and informative. Subscribed!
Thanks, very encouraging to make more videos
Nice one, very interesting.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Hi Richard, great video thanks
It’s amazing how many live rounds and unexploded bombs are in Europe!
Like donald trump woud say , BILLIONS AND BILLIONS !!!!!
I worked in the Solomon islands. We used to dig up live artillery rounds and ammunition as well as grenades ECT on a regular basis. I lived on top of Henderson air base which is now the countries main airport
And Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and dozen of other countries.
GOOD DOCUMENTARY, FRON BRASIL.
very well put together. respect
Thanks, hope you like my next vids
I love that Grewher 98
Excellent work and presentation.
Many thanks
Very Well Done! It's true that the British .303 cartridge is rimmed, and the German 7.92mm cartridge is rimless. But the French 8mm Lebel cartridge is also rimmed, though the case is shaped differently than the British round. Have you visited any French battlefields?
Thanks Mr. Richard, awesome video, subbed, Cheerio Bloke!!
Terribly missing my strolls around Montauban, Trones Wood (I guess that's the shell hole if not Bernafay), Flers and Guillemont. Hope to come back soon...
One nation producing 275,000,000 artillery shells in under 5 years is mind boggling. At current rates, it takes America over 2,000 YEARS to produce that many shells!
Nicely done, indeed, sir.
Thanks for your comment
Small technical notes:
What you pointed out on the Enfield is the bolt _handle_ not the bolt. The bolt is inside the action.
Black powder firearms have percussion caps. Those are primers.
The French 8mm cartridge is also rimmed, but the case is heavily conical, so it's easy to spot.
Great video in any case, just thought I'd let you know so you can be even more accurate.
Thanks for your comments. One of the reasons I'm enjoying making the videos is I am learning so much, so thanks for your correction. Glad you like the video
Great stuff, mate!
Thanks very much
GREAT VIDEO REALLY ENJOYED IT
Thanks
I walked those fields many times..now I can just watch..subscribed
Ps ..what was the name of the Gite ?
Nice video, keep it up.
One on its way, glad you like the video
Dont handle live ammunition, proceeds to handle live ammo.
Thank you
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It must be quite difficult to type like that.
Richard you are so luky man.greetings from Argentina
Would be interesting to load the cartridge if it is still working.
Had to double take that I wasn’t watching mark Felton after the intro
Me to
I seriously doubt Mark Felton would lower himself to grave robbing.
Absolutely brilliant video
Would like to do a first World War walk on day
Find the videos amazing
Thank you so much
"I'm stood in a WW1 artillery hole" - Tom Porter
good on you mate!
Cheers
Very well presented, are you on good terms with the farmers around Guillemont? I've been yelled at a few times in that area when walking ploughed fields so I dont try anymore which is a shame as its one of the battlefields where my great grandfather fought.
crispy68 Thanks for your kind comment. I wouldn't say I'm on good terms but I have chatted to one or two of the farmers in the past. Sounds like you've been unlucky to be yelled at. Try walking the fields again.
crispy68 i would give up so easy, next summer me and my friends from east germany are planing to visit an ww1 battlefield in france too. It would be a shame not to go walking the fields if you’re in such a region. Here in the Oderbruch the ground is also littered with relics from the second world war, since here was the last large battle before berlin we had very intense combat here and it left its traces everywhere
Perhaps if you met the farmer(s) first and asked permission it might help.
Who does this music? It's really beautiful. I'd like to hear the full piece.
It’s free music on iMovie but I can’t remember the name of it.
WELL PRODUCED AND INFORMATIVE BLESSING BE UPON YOU. GO DRINK A WHARKA DOUBLE MALT AND KNOW YA DONE GOOD.
Cheers, I will, thanks for your comment
Great video. What is the music that is played ?
Thanks! Sorry I can’t remember the name of the music but it was off iMovie.
0:05 what application is it? in poland we have lidar on geoportal but here? where can i get this lidar map?
We should all take in the numbers quoted in respect of shell production yet alone all the other armaments consumed in wars. You don't have to think for too long to realise who are the real winners in these conflicts.
Very nice video! Subscribed. I would suggest including an image of the original rusted items so newbies can compare them better
Thanks for your kind comment, subscription and your suggestion. I like your idea, I will use it for future videos.
Well done ~ sub.
Cheers, thanks very much
Such a short video and brilliant photography. The place is at peace after so much destruction. Oxygen will take it all. That is the way it is.
Cool
Thanks
How can a farmer safely operate a tractor, on the former battle fields, with so much live shells and bullets still in the ground. Could a plow, on a tractor, accidentally set off a shell?
Watching this I wondered the same thing.
Yes and it happens every year, leading to serious injuries and deaths.
So, do the plow tractors have blast shields or something? Or is UXO not that big of a deal to them? I guess what I'm asking really is if they have issues with UXO exploding when they plow the field still, of if that's even a concern.
I have been visiting the Somme Battlefields since the early 90's, I have never know of a tractor that has been blown up or over by an exploding shell. I spoke to a farmer a few weeks ago. He has been farming on the Somme since the 60's and he has never had steel plates on his tractor. I get the impression it doesn't bother them. Hope that answers your question.
That rifle should it have been British will have a serial number, that number might be found on what regiment it was issued to, or even if it was a battle field recovery and reissued and sent back to the front.
Is that 500 tons figure just the Somme?
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Chavasse farm isn’t named after the double VC winning noel chavasse ?
Music is familiar!
The rusted British bayonet shown was an early one still retaing part of the curved "quillon" that was officially removed on later examples as the other bayonet shows.
Excellent video and nice fresh approach to a very sad period in world history and such a damned waste of brave people on all sides. The War to end all Wars? Seems such a totally wrong statement now.....
Woe, awesome, what a terrible “war” over nothing, and who won, and who lost, the fighting men, horrible and I hope the bastards that started that shit are rotting in Hades, in eternal torment, paying for their SINS!,
I betcha that field is haunted as fuck!,,, Yikes!!!
Big up my bald brothers
I know that the Somme was a British part of the Western Front, but I wonder if any French 8mm Lebel rounds would be found there.
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Thanks, much appreciated
Shell hole? Wouldn't that make it a shell crater?
This the legacy and folly of war the Weston front where so much loss of life and mass slaughter
Mark dice music
I recognize the tune just not the show.
Dude, let it all rest with the souls of the men who gave their lives there. Don't disturb it!
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Two more.
That's right, encourage the grave robber. Pathetic, the lot of you.
The sad news is that live high explosive shells and gas will continue to be found
I’m standing in a First World War trench.
That’s cool. Where where you?
I'd like to go. Just wondered. If you found any bones could you take them home?
Why would you do that? Show some respect.
@@Useaname after the war the Russians used German P.O.W.s to dig up German graves and burn the bodies of dead Germans so mothers and wife's did not have a place to grieve and regardless there all soldiers doing what someone forced them to do
@@Useaname Why? As souvenirs of course.
you use the same intro music that mark felton productions on youtube uses, or maybe he coppied you!
"Percussion cap"? Seriously? If you are going to guide people around the battlefields of WW1, at least try to get yourself up to date. Percussion caps were introduced in before 1850 and were ancient history by WW1. What you are referring to is a "primer", which has been in use for metallic cartridges from the late 19th century to the present day. If you find a weapon using percussion caps, you are looking at something that was an old relic by the time of the Somme.
And if you're going to discuss the identification of cartridge cases by their construction, you'd do well to at least point to the "groove" and "rim" that you refer to, and preferably present the cses side by side for a visual comparison, as those who don't understand it already will need a little help.
You know, as a child, I lived near a regional airport & visited a crash sight once, took a souvenir of a melted piece of a C-47 that had gone down in the woods on approach. That act bothered me, as even as a small child, I knew it was wrong to have taken that part, as people had died there & there I was picking over them like I was in some flea market. I eventually was able to go back & replace that piece where I had found it & said a prayer for those that had been lost. My point is, that even as a child I knew it was wrong, while you (Richard Porter), as a grown man do the same thing for Likes & Views & Subs & see nothing wrong with it. smh.
Grandad on my mothers side laid bullet riddled (machine gun, one bullet left in situ and ONE of the OTHERS he was given back after German field hospital surgery at Monche Lagauche, which he made into a pendant) in no mans land for two days after the German assault of Operation Michael. Healed to minimum, taken to Soltau POW camp, starved and survived, and the site which is visibly now ERASED FROM HISTORY and not visible by google Earth or maps. As far as I can tell from his discharge papers, not given even A MENTION OR DECORATION from his aspirational battlefield bayonet charge, despite him keeping a handwritten attestation of his deeds by a superior who wrote his family and reported him "last seen at...", sent to his kin, before they EVENTUALLY found out he was alive.
I am biased. YA SO??? So fk me then. He sacrificed a LOT for us all, and if the Brit govt didnt want to recognize or honour a newly minted Canadian who volunteered HIS LIFE TO THE BRIT CAUSE, an UNDER AGED YOUNGSTER, For his contribution and hardship, then I am MORE THAN ENTITLED to fkn disrespect the "leaders" that forced his volunteerism to be "erased" from history, too.
War IS FOR SURE hell, the milquetoast mancunt leftard assholes and feminazis HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD WAR IS as they selfishly pretend to align themselves with such suffering, but I guarantee you the silent majority of non Hollywood heroes of such wars were NEVER GIVEN THE RESPECT THEY EARNED and yet were ignored.
Ps If I catch your disrespectful perverted nose ring wearing, sacrifice defiling, snowflake generation of fucktsrds denigrating the Vimy Memorial or ANY Memorial again in my presence, YOU WILL WISH you were in the front lines for the entire war instead, You should be so lucky as to flaunt your fucking arrogance in the face of such freedom-sacrificing memorials, but once, in YOUR lifetime. DO NOT EXPECT to get away with it AGAIN!!!
How about toning down your language on this or any other war site. Learn to show some respect.
These men died for your freedom, and all you do is swear and think that you are so tough while sitting behind a computer screen.