The story of the Canadian graves at Bodelwyddan
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- St. Margaret's Church at Bodelwyddan, North Wales, is the final resting place for dozens of Canadian Soldiers of the years 1914 to 1919.
Many were the victims of accidents sustained whilst they were at the nearby kinmel Camp for training.
The Spanish flu also claimed many of them.
But there are 4 graves of soldiers who passed away in March 1919, some 4 months after the end of the war.
Today, we explore their story.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:49 Background to the outbreak and ending of the Great War
03:20 The design of CWGC headstones
06:12 Some background of Kinmel Camp
07:19 Bodelwyddan was the closest cemetery for kinmel Camp
08:33 It wasn't all over in 1918
11.38 Outro
If you'd like to follow in our footsteps by visiting Bodelwyddan, some useful information is on our website at www.haveagrandtour.co.uk/bode...
Brilliant video. Learned a lot. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The story of the marble church is another video in the planning stages!
Thankyou!
John
Thank you for remembering these poor Canadian Soldiers. Your video was very informative and has lots of interesting history that people are now tending to forget. Lovely video, thank you ❤️🐾
I think that is, unfortunately, inevitable with the passage of time.
@@GTexplores I do think local schools, should teach more on their own local history. Maybe it wouldn’t get forgotten so quickly then. ❤️🐾
There are many, many good, great and even fantastic school teachers out there! For me to comment further "in public" would be difficult.
However, there is something I didn't mention in the video.
The apparent "ring leader" of the riots was a young chap who was living in Canada when he "signed up".
However, his parents were resident in another country, not Canada!
the fields the men trained on are still fields and every so often paqrts of some1 s uniform or a spent bulit works its way 2 the surface ive got dozens of photos of the camps and the canadian soldiers inj local villige of rhuddlan ,, i belive thats where thay got the train to liverpool then home by ship
Around Ypres and The Somme, even today it is normal for there to be piles of shells in the corner of fields which have come back to the surface.
I believe that Kinmel Camp was served by a branch line from Rhyl via Rhuddlan
Wonderful video and thank you for your effort’s.
As a Canadian vet and a bit of a history buff, I always interesting to find historical information on what the lads were up to back in their day.
Sadly, governments and citizens have forgotten the meaning of sacrifice.
Again, well done.
Thankyou!
If this video does well, I would like to tell some of the stories I've learned from time spent in The Somme and The Ypres Salient where of course, there were many Canadians.
This is at variance with other views which include the accusation that many of those buried had been shot as mutineers. I am surprised that in view of the enormity of the crime when looked at from the viewpoint of at that time the sentences were so light.
Thankyou for the valued comment. I'm aware that there are several "versions" of the stories surrounding the events which happened.
However, the essence of this video is to highlight the fact that in 1919, after the war was over, there were many, many men who simply wanted to go home, but were denied that. Their frustrations grew to a point where everything bubbled over and the men mutinied. Some of those men never went home and lost their lives.
GT
i learned of that terrible episode of those poor mistreated soldiers by my auntie when i was very young and everytime i pass the beautiful church i think of those poor brave souls of long ago.a very moving film thank you.
Thankyou!
we will NEVER forget.
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