Just back from a 1 1/2 day (too short!) trip to Ypres. Rented bicycles and did a ‘self-guided’ tour around Ypres Salient, including several cemeteries, large and small. The cemeteries are peaceful and beautifully maintained but , unsurprisingly, full of sadness and a very sobering experience. The documentary is well worth watching , engaging and informative, and really drives home what the thousands of men killed in their prime, frozen in time, experienced in their final days.
This is where my British 2d cousin Pte.Fredrick Edward Croker age 19 with the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment was killed KIA/ MIA ON 10/11/1917 and his name resides on a plaque of the missing at tyne cot cemetery. Im 2 generations behind you and never met you but thank you dear cousin for your service to the 👑 and 🇬🇧 . We love you. 🇺🇸
All together...I will think of Freddy this Thursday, at our Cenotaph, here in Canada...Bless em' all.☮ I have just in the last week found a lecture series site called the Western Front Association...when you find time, consider a gander.
Our family lost my Great Grandfather at the battle of the Somme. He was KIA July 16, 1916 at the Battle of Bazentin Ridge. To your family thank you for his service. I am also 2nd gen Canadian on my Mother's side of the family.
Douglas Haig should not been the Field Marshal of all British Expeditionary Forces capable on some areas but woefully on critical areas. His inflexibility of the command the "top down" nearly cost the British empire her sons for few kilometers of ground.
@@generalbooger9146 He' might be a NAZI fanboy. The German army lost the war and succeeded in blaming it on the politicians and especially the Jews. Which was complete bullshit- Ludendorff and the German general staff couldn't admit that they lost and their "Prussian honour" was a fraud.
@@Conn30Mtenor i THINK HE'S talking about ww1 and their Mining under each others trenches.... then blows them up. That's still incorrect though. Nobody uses their brains anymore. lol Not talking about you Charles.
@@Conn30Mtenor That isn't right either. This "He might be a Nazi fanboy". So what if he is? If he's American it's his God given right to be whatever the hell he wants. Same for chicks wanting to be dudes and vice versa. It goes all ways, otherwise its hypocrisy.
I think every soldier that died wanted one thing: to be remembered. We owe them that much. Norm has made sure they will be. Excellent series.
Words aren't enough. Unbelievable tragedy.
Just visited the paschendale memorial museum and Tyne cot yesterday. Very impressive movie
Just back from a 1 1/2 day (too short!) trip to Ypres. Rented bicycles and did a ‘self-guided’ tour around Ypres Salient, including several cemeteries, large and small. The cemeteries are peaceful and beautifully maintained but , unsurprisingly, full of sadness and a very sobering experience. The documentary is well worth watching , engaging and informative, and really drives home what the thousands of men killed in their prime, frozen in time, experienced in their final days.
This is where my British 2d cousin Pte.Fredrick Edward Croker age 19 with the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment was killed KIA/ MIA ON 10/11/1917 and his name resides on a plaque of the missing at tyne cot cemetery. Im 2 generations behind you and never met you but thank you dear cousin for your service to the 👑 and 🇬🇧 . We love you. 🇺🇸
All together...I will think of Freddy this Thursday, at our Cenotaph, here in Canada...Bless em' all.☮
I have just in the last week found a lecture series site called the Western Front Association...when you find time, consider a gander.
Our family lost my Great Grandfather at the battle of the Somme. He was KIA July 16, 1916 at the Battle of Bazentin Ridge. To your family thank you for his service. I am also 2nd gen Canadian on my Mother's side of the family.
Thank you for the video. Greetings from Ypres
60,000 Canadians a hundred years ago would be 262,500 Canadians today. Which is more than the USA lost in WW2.
The wind...Diversity is good when choosing a nice restaurant... It is only unity that makes a good nation great.
Douglas Haig should not been the Field Marshal of all British Expeditionary Forces capable on some areas but woefully on critical areas. His inflexibility of the command the "top down" nearly cost the British empire her sons for few kilometers of ground.
So which Western front commander got it right? Why have you chosen Haig for criticism? Which French or German commander played a blinder?
@@CoherentChimp Can't Argue with Hindsight-Historians
Absolutely disgusting.
Wait a moment, you forget completely that the germans were undermined and blew up almost the whole german army.
huh
@@generalbooger9146 He' might be a NAZI fanboy. The German army lost the war and succeeded in blaming it on the politicians and especially the Jews. Which was complete bullshit- Ludendorff and the German general staff couldn't admit that they lost and their "Prussian honour" was a fraud.
@@Conn30Mtenor i THINK HE'S talking about ww1 and their Mining under each others trenches.... then blows them up. That's still incorrect though. Nobody uses their brains anymore. lol Not talking about you Charles.
@@Conn30Mtenor That isn't right either. This "He might be a Nazi fanboy". So what if he is? If he's American it's his God given right to be whatever the hell he wants. Same for chicks wanting to be dudes and vice versa. It goes all ways, otherwise its hypocrisy.
@@generalbooger9146 correct. Everyone has the right to choose to be a moral imbecile.