A humble YES. These female heroes cannot be honored enough. To give one's life for someone in need is the greatest there is. Once again a pleasure Chris..........
YES! A wonderful story of people who sacrificed for the sake of others, I am humbled by their commitment today's men and their most dire circumstances.
My great grandmother was in the VAD in the UK. She meet my great grandfather, a new Zealand soldier wounded on the Somme in September 1916. The got married and she moved to New Zealand at the end of the war.
My Grandmother was in the VAD in France. She met my grandfather, a South African soldier who had been gassed. They got married and moved to South Africa after the war.
Chris, this is the best story you have told so far. I was completely spell bound, by it. I had some understanding of the volunteers, but I was not aware of the extent of their reach and involvement. Thank you, brilliant video, Cheers
Extremely interesting and informed piece on the VAD - as always, thanks for producing such quality work. Albert Ball VC : definitely Yes. ..and if I could request, one on Edith Cavell too? (As a young child I had a postcard collection and in a smattering of early 20th Century examples donated by elderly relatives, I remember one with a grainy b&w photograph of Cavell. I remember feeling she was a brave woman of her time, but knew nothing more. Your mention of her has sparked me wanting to find that old shoe box full of postcards & childhood memories again. I think a rummage in the loft is on the cards tomorrow!)
These days I don't even bother to check the subject when your Notifications pop up. I just click the link, knowing that what will follow will be interesting, well researched and well presented. That's all that anyone can ask for.
Brilliant video, really enjoyed it. My paternal grandmother, born in 1899, served as a nurse during WW2. It may have been with the VAD at old Addenbrooks in Cambridge. Regards, John.
The exploits of WW1 Fighter pilots/Scouts did very little in advancing the frontline eastwards. Some of the stories are exaggerations of what really happened. Billy Bishop VC is a good example. It was the pilots who later in the conflict who bombed and strafed troop concentrations and artillery positions helping the advance in 1918 that made real difference.
@@anthonyeaton5153 Near is a comparative term, some were closer to the front than the generals or politicians. Close enough to die in artillery barrages or on hospital ships.
@@davymckeown4577The generals were ALWAYS nearer to the front line than were the nurses. The wounded were initially brought from No Man’s Land by stretcher bearers,treated at the front line by men then at medical stations a little further behind in to categories of the seriousness nature of their wounds by men, they were then transported to the hospitals on the coast by men.They were then handed over to the nursing staff.
Wow, what an incredible tribute to the VAD. Who knows what suffering soldiers would have endured without them. I thought the story of Violet Jessop was amazing. It connected with me, very tenuously, as a relative of mine went on to die when HMS Hawke was torpedoed in October 1914. Thank you for producing such great content Chris. Keep it up.
Another very interesting video Chris. It’s very important to remember these unsung heroes as well as those with a better known history. A 100% YES to telling the story of Albert Ball VC.
Wow! I never knew such famous ladies served their country so gallantly, and so many unknown ladies did to, unknown to us, but I'm sure not to the veterans they cared for!Thank you, sir.
Very interesting video about those who also served. And yes, I would love to see something on Albert Ball VC. I think the Red Baron gets more publicity than he deserves, while others who shot down almost as many enemy aircraft, are virtually ignored.
Kia Ora Chris. I loved this presentation. Mainly because my first job was as a nurse back in the 1980s. A couple of subjects that I would love to see you present would be The 28th Maori Batallón. Particularly because my wife's father fought alongside at Monte Cassino. Also, because I am a cat lover, the story of Simon the ship's cat on board HMS Amethyst during the "Yangtse Iincident". But, also the other animals that earned the Dickin Medal. Thank you Chris.
Thank you Chris. You have surpassed yourself again. Yes to Albert Ball VC, but please, in similar vein, could you do a video on WW2 Far East Prisoner of War Dame Margot Turner QAIMNS?
Thank you very much for doing this video, I remember seeing the comment on the FANY in your last one. Very interesting, well researched and presented. I'm sure a video on Albert Ball VC would be equally so, so its a yes from me too!! Good luck from Spain!!
Here's to VAD Kate Dovey, wife of Major Charlie Dovey NZSC, 2nd-in Charge No 1 NZ General Hospital Brockenhurst and chronicled in the book "Back To The Front -The Experiences of Elsie Grey: A New Zealand World War I Nurse." Edited by JGM Holms Zip Print Maryborough australia.
@@TheHistoryChap i can thoroughly recommend The Sun Also Rises to all whilst it has some language very much of it's day as in respect of Jews and Black people which is to be regretted it has some fantastic evocations of interwar Paris and pre civil war Spain especially the festival of San Firmin in Pamplona
My great grandfather was gassed in the trenches of France during WWI and may have come in contact with VAD nurses during his recuperation. As a Boar War and WWI vet, he tried to get back to England from Canada at 70 yrs in about 1939 and was found out before boarding a troop ship in Montreal, he was a patriotic old guy. I wish I met him😢but it is a fun bit of family history.😊
Yes please to Albert Ball VC and any other fighter aces of the Great War. Also, may I suggest Robert Stanford Tuck from World War Two? Testament of Youth was also dramatised for TV in 1979 with Cheryl Campbell playing the part of Vera Brittain. It was an excellent adaption and well worth watching.
Very nicely done. I note this one is a bit longer and your enthusiasm is palpable. Now do the FANYs. PS Enid Bagnold any relation to Ralph of the LRDG?
@@TheHistoryChap No fooling. The name rang a bell in its own right, but I was just guessing. Always been a fan of the LRDG. They took a mind-numbing job IMHO and turned it into one of the most important of the war in the Desert. No showoffs, just plain good soldiering, excellent fieldcraft, incredible ingenuity, and guts to spare.
I wonder if my Gran was a VAD. She was a nurse who cared for my Grandad when he was invalided back to Blighty after serving in the Royal Field Artillery on the Mesopotamian Front.They married after the War.
You've touched an essential, often neglected angle of military history. Women in War. Please, please, please more of this. Nursing, Land Army, Timber Corps, SOE, WRNS, WAAF/WRAF, WRAC, A/A and Balloon, Code-Breakers, factory, police and civilian services, POW's, not forgetting wives and mums supporting their men on active service home and abroad, the lot. Let's give our gallant (underpaid) wartime women the credit they more than deserve.
Albert Ball will be good, as will any other VC. I would also apreciate some of the George Cross winners, as there should be many intersting stories there, as well, like that of Captain Dudley W Mason on SS Ohio......
My granny, Daisy Lewis was a VAD. Sadly aside from one photo and my father telling me as much I know nothing more about her activities. It's enough to know that she played her part.
There were so many organisations of women without whom the war effort would have been nigh-on crippled. Additional to the VAD there were ATS (in which our own late QEII served), the FANY, the WAAF, the ATA, the Womens Land Army, and more whose unit names escape me for the moment. On a side issue let us not forget the vast numbers of girls who served at Bletchley (where my own father served in WWII) and without whom Bletchley could not have been Churchill's "goose that laid the golden eggs but never cackled".
Deposed by the British, exiled to Britain, and became friends with the Queen, who became godmother to one of the children who got a free house, then protested against the government. Stalin had a more simple approach.
@@TheHistoryChap - Actually, the first recorded cases all within about a month were reported in the USA, Germany, France, and the UK. Epidemeological data was extremely sketchy, and it was impossible to determine the country of origin. The fact the first recorded case was in the USA means little, given the almost simultaneous occurrances far from the US, and the turmoil and state of the public health services in other countries mentioned. (Funny how quickly people will grab on the flimsiest of evidence to make the USA the bad guy, isn't it?) It is true, though, that those reporting restrictions (due to the War) were what led to it being called the Spanish Flu, since Spain was neutral and didn't institute the same level of restrictions on the press.
A humble YES. These female heroes cannot be honored enough. To give one's life for someone in need is the greatest there is. Once again a pleasure Chris..........
Jan, thanks for watching.
@@TheHistoryChap By the way, there is a huge task for you to tell about all the selfless dogs, pigeons and many other animals in the service of man.
YES!
A wonderful story of people who sacrificed for the sake of others, I am humbled by their commitment today's men and their most dire circumstances.
I enjoyed researching this particular video. It’s a shame more people haven’t watched it.
A video about Albert Ball (and other fighter aces) would be very welcome, Chris.
Thanks for the endorsement.
An excellent and thoroughly interesting presentation as always! And yes, I would love to see a video about Albert Ball VC.
Glad you enjoyed. Albert Ball is already starting to rack up the votes!
My great grandmother was in the VAD in the UK. She meet my great grandfather, a new Zealand soldier wounded on the Somme in September 1916. The got married and she moved to New Zealand at the end of the war.
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
My Grandmother was in the VAD in France. She met my grandfather, a South African soldier who had been gassed. They got married and moved to South Africa after the war.
@@SarahAlexander-dj4nu Did they have a long a happy marriage? I hope so.
Chris, this is the best story you have told so far. I was completely spell bound, by it. I had some understanding of the volunteers, but I was not aware of the extent of their reach and involvement. Thank you, brilliant video, Cheers
Andrew, thank you for those kind words. I love researching these stories and I'm glad people like you enjoy watching / listening to them.
Cherry-Garrad's books is fascinating, the story of the orca hunting the men on the ice is terrifying.
I feel there might be a video story in there somewhere...
@@TheHistoryChap Definitely! Another cracking video, many thanks!
Thank you for sharing this crucial history that is never talked about.
Shame more people haven't watched it, but there is still time!
Met Dame Margot Turner when I was in the Queen Alexandra's Nursing Corp .Admired her.
Thanks for your feedback & for watching my video
Extremely interesting and informed piece on the VAD - as always, thanks for producing such quality work.
Albert Ball VC : definitely Yes.
..and if I could request, one on Edith Cavell too?
(As a young child I had a postcard collection and in a smattering of early 20th Century examples donated by elderly relatives, I remember one with a grainy b&w photograph of Cavell. I remember feeling she was a brave woman of her time, but knew nothing more. Your mention of her has sparked me wanting to find that old shoe box full of postcards & childhood memories again. I think a rummage in the loft is on the cards tomorrow!)
Yes, I will do one on Edith Cavell too.
Yet another excellent presentation. Thank you and keep up the good work. As for Albert Ball, Yes please. 👍.
Kay, thanks for watching & I've added your vote to the collection (which is rapidly building).
Yes ! 👍Another well presented spotlight on this part of WW1 history. 🥇
Thanks for watching.
These days I don't even bother to check the subject when your Notifications pop up. I just click the link, knowing that what will follow will be interesting, well researched and well presented. That's all that anyone can ask for.
That's an interesting pub question!
@@TheHistoryChap Indeed.
Thanks for another great video , Albert Ball VC : definitely Yes
Glad you enjoyed. Albert Ball VC is on the way.
Brilliant video, really enjoyed it. My paternal grandmother, born in 1899, served as a nurse during WW2. It may have been with the VAD at old Addenbrooks in Cambridge. Regards, John.
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent, highlighting people rarely mentioned.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
Yes Chris. Great work
Glad you enjoyed it.
Yes. All of those other stories, please.
Thank you.
Yet another excellent vid on a topic that’s little known
Very kind of you. Thanks for watching.
Thoroughly excellent and entertaining. Yes please to Albert Ball V.C.
Glad you enjoyed. Albert Ball VC is on the cards.
The exploits of WW1 Fighter pilots/Scouts did very little in advancing the frontline eastwards. Some of the stories are exaggerations of what really happened. Billy Bishop VC is a good example. It was the pilots who later in the conflict who bombed and strafed troop concentrations and artillery positions helping the advance in 1918 that made real difference.
You've made me realise I need to re-read Lyn McDonald's Roses of No-man's Land. Thanks, and yes to a future episode about the airman.
Davy, thanks for watching.
Roses of No Man’s Land is a slight distortion. The nurses were never anywhere near No Man’s Land.
@@anthonyeaton5153 Near is a comparative term, some were closer to the front than the generals or politicians. Close enough to die in artillery barrages or on hospital ships.
@@davymckeown4577The generals were ALWAYS nearer to the front line than were the nurses. The wounded were initially brought from No Man’s Land by stretcher bearers,treated at the front line by men then at medical stations a little further behind in to categories of the seriousness nature of their wounds by men, they were then transported to the hospitals on the coast by men.They were then handed over to the nursing staff.
@@anthonyeaton5153Why so pedantic?
Another fascinating insight, thank you. And yes please to Albert Ball
John, thanks for watching. Plenty of votes for Albert Ball coming in.
Yes. Give us more!
Will do. Thanks for your support.
Loved this video. Thank you, and a big yes on an Albert Ball video please.
Thanks for watching Lawrence and I have registered your vote.
Another extremally interesting and; widely unknown subject. Thank you very much, nicely done Chris
Thanks fro watching.
Wow, what an incredible tribute to the VAD. Who knows what suffering soldiers would have endured without them.
I thought the story of Violet Jessop was amazing. It connected with me, very tenuously, as a relative of mine went on to die when HMS Hawke was torpedoed in October 1914.
Thank you for producing such great content Chris. Keep it up.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
awesome as always,thanks so much indeed
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching.
Well done in shining a light on this brave and compassionate organization often over look in history and a yes vote for the Albert Ball VC video 👍
Thanks for those kind words (and for your vote)
Yes please we'd love to hear about Albert Ball VC
Okay, I will add him to the list.
Yes and that was really great thanks for doing this on VAD
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Yes please! Watching from New Zealand.
Will add to my list.
Yes please on Albert Ball. Congrats on another fascinating story.
Albert Ball VC will be happening.
Another very interesting video Chris. It’s very important to remember these unsung heroes as well as those with a better known history.
A 100% YES to telling the story of Albert Ball VC.
Glad you enjoyed.
may God bless them all thank you for posting
Thanks for watching & your comment.
Thank u for yet another brilliant video
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Another blood good article, so much to learn about WW1
Thanks Arthur. it is a crowded field and I want to find stories that aren't in the "Top 10"
Chris , thank you so much for this insight into the VAD .... Very interesting ... Great work Chris .... Yes to flying Ace ! 😃
Thanks Simon.
Yes to Albert Ball, his story was part of my childhood in Nottingham.
You might like this from Nottingham too, the Chilwell Munitions Factory explosion in 1918:
th-cam.com/video/cnaz36nE6QY/w-d-xo.html
Wow! I never knew such famous ladies served their country so gallantly, and so many unknown ladies did to, unknown to us, but I'm sure not to the veterans they cared for!Thank you, sir.
Glad you found it interesting. Thanks for watching.
Very interesting video about those who also served. And yes, I would love to see something on Albert Ball VC. I think the Red Baron gets more publicity than he deserves, while others who shot down almost as many enemy aircraft, are virtually ignored.
Brian, that's interesting about how the Red Baron gets all the publicity.
Kia Ora Chris. I loved this presentation. Mainly because my first job was as a nurse back in the 1980s. A couple of subjects that I would love to see you present would be The 28th Maori Batallón. Particularly because my wife's father fought alongside at Monte Cassino. Also, because I am a cat lover, the story of Simon the ship's cat on board HMS Amethyst during the "Yangtse Iincident". But, also the other animals that earned the Dickin Medal. Thank you Chris.
Thank you for your suggestions.
Yangtse incident is on my list. Watch this space or sign up for my newsletter at www.thehistorychap.com
We love your videos.
Very kind of you. Thanks.
Thank you Chris. You have surpassed yourself again. Yes to Albert Ball VC, but please, in similar vein, could you do a video on WW2 Far East Prisoner of War Dame Margot Turner QAIMNS?
Glad you liked it. Margot Turner sounds very interesting. i will see what I can research about her.
Loved it, thought I'd just mention that 10 new Zealand nurses died during the sinking of the Marquette 23rd October 1915.
Ooh, thanks for sharing that fact.
@@TheHistoryChap you're very welcome
Absolutely fascinating and interesting story which should be told more, an Albert Ball VC video would be great, thank you for this and keep well.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Highly interesting.
What a nice video on a really worthwhile topic.
Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you very much for doing this video, I remember seeing the comment on the FANY in your last one. Very interesting, well researched and presented.
I'm sure a video on Albert Ball VC would be equally so, so its a yes from me too!!
Good luck from Spain!!
David, thanks for taking the time to comment.
Greetings from a rainy & sunny (!) Worcester.
Here's to VAD Kate Dovey, wife of Major Charlie Dovey NZSC, 2nd-in Charge No 1 NZ General Hospital Brockenhurst and chronicled in the book "Back To The Front -The Experiences of Elsie Grey: A New Zealand World War I Nurse." Edited by JGM Holms Zip Print Maryborough australia.
Thanks for watching my video & your interesting feedback.
Yes please and I am sure your video about Albert Ball VC will be as well researched and informative as one.
Thank you.
Yes please Chris; As for VAD given me more awareness of the role, l knew of FANY, just great to find out something else of interest.
Glad you enjoyed.
Yes to the Albert Ball VC video!👍
Will add your vote to the tally.
Excellent work Chris! May I suggest a video about Violet Jessup?
I will add to my list.
Fun fact Brett Ashley the femme fatale of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises or Festival was a VAD when she met the protagonist Jake
Fun fact indeed. Thanks for sharing.
@@TheHistoryChap i can thoroughly recommend The Sun Also Rises to all whilst it has some language very much of it's day as in respect of Jews and Black people which is to be regretted it has some fantastic evocations of interwar Paris and pre civil war Spain especially the festival of San Firmin in Pamplona
My great grandfather was gassed in the trenches of France during WWI and may have come in contact with VAD nurses during his recuperation. As a Boar War and WWI vet, he tried to get back to England from Canada at 70 yrs in about 1939 and was found out before boarding a troop ship in Montreal, he was a patriotic old guy. I wish I met him😢but it is a fun bit of family history.😊
Thanks for sharing your family history story.
So very interesting had no idea that so many volunteers were involved in the First World War. Brilliant.
Thank you for your support.
Yes 👍 excellent well done 👏
Many thanks
Yes please to Albert Ball VC and any other fighter aces of the Great War.
Also, may I suggest Robert Stanford Tuck from World War Two?
Testament of Youth was also dramatised for TV in 1979 with Cheryl Campbell playing the part of Vera Brittain. It was an excellent adaption and well worth watching.
Thanks for sharing.
Very nicely done. I note this one is a bit longer and your enthusiasm is palpable. Now do the FANYs.
PS Enid Bagnold any relation to Ralph of the LRDG?
Ralph's sister.
@@TheHistoryChap No fooling. The name rang a bell in its own right, but I was just guessing. Always been a fan of the LRDG. They took a mind-numbing job IMHO and turned it into one of the most important of the war in the Desert. No showoffs, just plain good soldiering, excellent fieldcraft, incredible ingenuity, and guts to spare.
I believe these are the nurses from “the life and death of Colonel Blimp”…an excellent movie by the way.
Interesting. That film also stars John Laurie (Private Frazer in "Dad's Army") whom I have recently made a video about.
@@TheHistoryChap absolutely!
Didn't both Royal Princesses serve as volunteers during WWII? What organization were they with?
Princess Elizabeth served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service - part of the army (although the women were not allowed combat roles).
Yes
Thank you.
I wonder if my Gran was a VAD. She was a nurse who cared for my Grandad when he was invalided back to Blighty after serving in the Royal Field Artillery on the Mesopotamian Front.They married after the War.
VAD nurses certainly did go there but she might also have been in Queen Alexandra's Army Nursing Corps.
A good screenplay about women nurses during the wars would make excellent movie material. Lets hope the idea isn't overlooked in the future.
Nice idea.
I wonder if you could make an episode about Edith Cavell ...
Thanks for the suggestion.
I wonder if they have declassified her work as a spy since Stella Remington finally admitted to her being one.
As a current St John Ambulance volunteer I found this very interesting!
I'm glad you did. St. John are often overlooked as a partner in this war effort.
You've touched an essential, often neglected angle of military history. Women in War.
Please, please, please more of this. Nursing, Land Army, Timber Corps, SOE, WRNS, WAAF/WRAF, WRAC, A/A and Balloon, Code-Breakers, factory, police and civilian services, POW's, not forgetting wives and mums supporting their men on active service home and abroad, the lot. Let's give our gallant (underpaid) wartime women the credit they more than deserve.
Thanks for your suggestions. That list will keep me going for some time.
It was still a man’s war, just look at your local war memorial.
Yes for a video of Albert Ball . VC.
Here it is:
th-cam.com/video/9Nf1pe5_ytk/w-d-xo.html
Yes on Albert Ball VC . And an episode on FANY.
Okay, I will add both to my (ever-growing) list.
And a video on Jack Cohen
Wartime service or building a retail brand?
Charterhouse school and Chiddingfold? I grew up within walking distance of both! 😇
It's a small old world!
Albert Ball will be good, as will any other VC. I would also apreciate some of the George Cross winners, as there should be many intersting stories there, as well, like that of Captain Dudley W Mason on SS Ohio......
VC winners are an endless source of interesting stories.
Yes, also womens land army did essential work 2 of my great aunts served in this , would be nice to see them acknowledged ❤
Thanks for watching my video, Your suggestion is on my ever growing list.
yes for Albert Ball
Ok. I will add to my list.
Really informative, two of these brave ladies are buried in Tyldesley cemetery
I'm glad you found it interesting and thanks for sharing the information about 2 VAD ladfes buried in Tyldesley cemetery.
Yes please Chris..Albert Ball.
Okay, I will add him to my list.
Yes.
Okay, will do.
My granny, Daisy Lewis was a VAD. Sadly aside from one photo and my father telling me as much I know nothing more about her activities. It's enough to know that she played her part.
Thanks for sharing about your family connecting to the VAD.
Yes please
Albert Ball is racking up a fair few votes so I am going to add him to my list.
yes
Thanks.
What about doing a story about the VAD post WW1?
Their WW2 story is fascinating. Some SOE operatives that you might have heard of. Back on the Home Front - Hattie Jacques!
Yes He was a brilliant fighter ace
Lots of votes for Albert Ball coming in.
There were so many organisations of women without whom the war effort would have been nigh-on crippled.
Additional to the VAD there were ATS (in which our own late QEII served), the FANY, the WAAF, the ATA, the Womens Land Army, and more whose unit names escape me for the moment.
On a side issue let us not forget the vast numbers of girls who served at Bletchley (where my own father served in WWII) and without whom Bletchley could not have been Churchill's "goose that laid the golden eggs but never cackled".
Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting feedback.
Albert Ball VC? Yes please!
Okay, I will add your vote to the pile.
Deposed by the British, exiled to Britain, and became friends with the Queen, who became godmother to one of the children who got a free house, then protested against the government.
Stalin had a more simple approach.
That's why we are different.
Yes to Albert Ball.
Spanish Flu actually originated in the US but because of reporting restrictions only the flu raging in Spain could be mentioned.
Thanks for the vote and the explanation about the origins of Spanish Flu.
@@TheHistoryChap - Actually, the first recorded cases all within about a month were reported in the USA, Germany, France, and the UK. Epidemeological data was extremely sketchy, and it was impossible to determine the country of origin. The fact the first recorded case was in the USA means little, given the almost simultaneous occurrances far from the US, and the turmoil and state of the public health services in other countries mentioned.
(Funny how quickly people will grab on the flimsiest of evidence to make the USA the bad guy, isn't it?)
It is true, though, that those reporting restrictions (due to the War) were what led to it being called the Spanish Flu, since Spain was neutral and didn't institute the same level of restrictions on the press.
brilliant
Thank you.
Yes to the great Ball
Thanks Jay.
This should be taught in school.
Agreed.
Albert Ball VC - YES.
Frank, I will add him to my list.
God Bless them all.
Nice sentiments.
Yes, please
Okay.
I bet the bloke who came up with FANY was a bloke called Richard Head.
Boom boom 😂
Yes. Of course.
Your wish is my command!
Yes, please.
Albert Ball VC coming soon.
Yes please.
Vote noted. Thanks.
Battle of Adwa someday?
Tend to focus on British history but I might break that rule for the battle of Adowa some day.
@@TheHistoryChap British did assist Ethiopia in Haile Selassie’s return. Love the channel
Yes!
Thanks for the vote.
YES!
Ok.
My late Mother served with the Australian VAD's during WW11
Thanks for your feedback & for watching my video.
Thanks for your feedback.