Sunderland in The First World War - Full - Lonely Tower Film & Media
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2015
- As the imperial chess pieces began to move towards war in the spring and early summer of 1914, Sunderland responded accordingly, its one hundred and fifty one thousand townspeople busying themselves, preparing for what might come.
Sunderland’s final account when the war was over would read that of those one hundred and fifty one thousand residents, eighteen thousand would serve their King and one third of those become casualties.
As a son of Sunderland who served queen and country I loved this thank you so much
Thankyou so much for this documentary, it has only made me even more proud to be Sunderland born & bred
Great footage,thank you.
.Although no longer residing there i'm always proud to be Sunderland born & bred.
I can trace my family back to 1540, all of them living in or around Sunderland and many involved with the sea and ships. I left England in 1975, a full 45 years ago, but if someone asks where am I from I still say Sunderland! Good documentary.
One of the best documentary recordings that I have seen on CZcams. The music was excellent and in my opinion was very appropriate. The fact I was born and brought up in Sunderland has not made me biased. Many thanks to one and all.
Hi Bob, really appreciate your comments. Thanks very much
I’ve seen this - great stuff! Even more proud!
Thank you for sharing stay safe everyone god bless 🙏
Fantastic live in Australia from my heart is in sometime Sunderland
My great uncle Thomas Mallan from Norman St know Hendon died of wounds revived at the battle of Loos .He was with the DLI and only 18 years old.
Hi Dave, thanks for sharing this information about your great uncle. We visited Loos Cemetery for a different project last year.
Amazing ! I'm from Sunderland and this was touching to watch ...
Hi Jack, thank you so much. Our newest film, The Wear at War is due for completion very soon and will be shared as soon as we can.
Lon Tower cool will check it out when it comes out
A fascinating film. Congratulations to all concerned.
Excellent historical documentary, I really enjoyed watching it.
Jim Ross Hi Jim, thank you so much for your kind comments - It really was a pleasure to produce
its nice to see good documentaries about Sunderland. the music was a little similar to the 2001 movie pearl harbor with Ben Affleck but still sounded good to me.
proud mackem am I
Charlie Molloy, Mariah St Sunderland fought in WW1. He was my Grandad.
Thank you. We recently found a 1918 family photo recently of my granny and 9 siblings including her baby brother and her mother who was by then a widow. Her husband, my great grandfather, first signed up to fight in 1887 as a 19 year old in the DLI and fought in the Boer war including in South Africa in 1900, gained medals etc. So he was an old hand in terms of being a soldier in the DLI (and coal miner) by 1914 when he signed up yet again. In a sense he was lucky to be invalided out in 1916 after 1915 heart problems - we have the medical report, came home, conceived his last child in 1916 born in 1917 and 6 weeks after the birth died. At least he was with family when he died although by the 1921 census 3 daughters were away in service and the 7 other children and my great granny left at home with no workers in the family at all and not much of a pension from her late husband's war service. By 1930 my granny was newly married nearn Sunderland, but then her husband died falling from a top of a ship on which he was working at Sir John Priestman's shipyard - so yet another woman widowed with a tiny baby (my mother). Very difficult lives and times. WWI was dreadful.Men were treated as cannon fodder. Such a waste.
my granda JIMMY CARPENTER was in the DLI loved him so much
Can you believe it , the d l a machine gun section in this program picture , my grandad in it , we’ve also all the names of the solders ,
You know the Geordies up the road take all the credit for this don't ya?
Not all of it little brother, most but not all.
appalling dreadfull background music
Sorry that you feel that way.
Surprised William Mills of Wear Street, Southwick, never got a mention having invented the first successful hand grenade which was used in WW1 and was known as the 'Mills Bomb':
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mills_(inventor)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb