WHY WW1 BROKE OUT: th-cam.com/video/v_h03jDXuEw/w-d-xo.html GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM (1914): th-cam.com/video/sM_D4nWj8G4/w-d-xo.html BELGIUM ARMY 1914: th-cam.com/video/cS9dgLl0dwg/w-d-xo.html
@History Hustle Canada is in real trouble of having our rights taken from us. We have truckers going to Ottawa. I know you don’t do modern stuff but the world needs to know! The mainstream media is not showing much and lying when they do. We are living in 1930’s Germany! This Saturday is our revolt! Just thought you should know! Sleepless nights in Canada that’s for sure!!
Another well done piece of history. When I saw the title of trench warfare took me back when years ago when I told my son and his best friend in the backyard that in war they would dig trenches and foxholes. Then I left. In about an hour I looked out the window and those boys dug themselves a foxhole camouflage with branches. They made a campfire there stayed the whole night also guarding there territory from the unwanted sisters who kept on insisting to bother them. Playing war is a good memory. Being in war is a whole other issue
@@horace9341 yes, the boys always seemed to get in trouble with them, but somehow the girls finagle their way out. Sisters are invincible. Loved watching them grow
Very interesting! My Grandfather was an United States Marine who fought in France during WWI. I enjoy your WWI and WWII History Lectures/Videos they give me an idea of what my Grandfather and other relatives went through in WWI and WWII. Thank you!
@@HistoryHustle No I did not get to meet him - his name is Thell Ross Neal - he died when I was one year old in 1954. On 15 September 1918 He was wounded in the Battle of Saint Mihiel and was saved by a small Bible and Sharpshooter Medal in his chest pocket that absorbed the impact of a piece of artillery shrapnel that struck him in the chest. Stories were written about him being saved from death by the Bible in his pocket. Biologically I am a "Neal" - I got my "Gibbs" surname from my Stepfather who raised me with my Mother.
My Grandfather was there too with the British Royal Horse Artillery. Unfortunately he died when I was very young but my mother would pass stories down. He was a cook and would often slice meat off dead horses when supplies failed to arrive. He was invalided out before the end due to a gas attack which pretty much plagued him with a bad chest for the rest of his life.
@@Autobotmatt428 yes he was from what information was passed to me by my First Cousin/another of his grandsons. I am just now beginning to research his WW1 history and very interested in finding all the details of my Grandfather's Life.
Al sinds jaren wilde ik naar Ieper gaan. Bedankt voor de mooie beelden. Het is altijd een maf gevoel, naar mijn mening, om door een stad te lopen waarvan je weet dat nagenoeg alle 'historische' gebouwen die je aanschouwt in werkelijkheid reconstructies zijn.
Het zijn alleen maar de historische gebouwen die in hun originele staat herbouwd zijn , maar als Ieperling vind ik het nog altijd één van de mooiste steden van België . En Hitler heeft spijtig genoeg een bezoek gebracht aan Ieper tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog nadat hij het Duits kerkhof in Langemark had bezocht .
Excellent and incredibly informative video! I feel as though the first battle of Ypres often isn't discussed enough despite the role it played early in the war. My own great-granduncle Corporal Arthur Toms (of the Rifle Brigade) was killed during the first battle of Ypres at the age of 29, I visited Ypres during a school trip 10 years ago and it was an incredibly moving and emotional experience to pay respects at his grave. Thanks a lot for the video, I can't wait to watch another and learn even more!
Great episode on the First Battle of Ypres after which the war switched from a movement war to a trench war. The number of casualties is shocking but sadly this would only be the first of many more terrible engagements during the Great War! Great work Stefan!
Yet another superb piece of work, professor Stefan,..we are definitely being spoiled by you ! Without in any way seeking to toot on a nationalistic horn of some sort, your superb video immediately reminded me of the gassing suffered by my great-grandfather within trenches such as these, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force, which he volunteered for, and was not conscripted into, in 1914, and , of course, without any verified medical evidence at all, my dear old Grandma always blamed my own asthma ( I was hospitalized at two years of age ) upon the lifetime he spent coughing and spluttering. My great - great- uncle, William, was essentially obliterated by a German shell a mere few weeks prior to the Armistice. My family still treasures the beautiful letters his grieving father sent to the authorities on having his remains identified. He actually has no less than two memorial plaques, one in France, which we’ve visited, and one at home, in the tiny hamlet of Westerway, in Tasmania.
I have my coffee in hand and eyes and ears open ready for class professor Stefan!!!! Another job well done! This was a good reminder of how trench warfare came about which you don’t hear about very often anymore. I love that you spoke of this on location in Ypres as this was such a significant city especially at the start of the Great War and a place that was tragically destroyed ruining so many beautiful and ancient buildings during that time. Great work as usual professor Stefan!
My Grandfather was involved in the 1st battle of Ypres. He was in the German 169th Infantry Regiment and fought at Givenchy near La Bassee in the southern area of the battle, just inside France.
Hey there! Been meaing to say congrats on your recent accomplishments with your channel. We're thrilled for you. We've been watching your channel for a while, and have always said you deserve to have a large audience. Keep up the great work OG! xx
Canada!! Truckers are fighting for freedom!! Driving the trucks to Ottawa and not leaving until all mandates are ended!! Freedom!! To all locked down we will fight for freedom!! Canadian proud!! Excellent episode!! I bet we see more of that young man with that moustache. He looks like a menace!!
The dense infantry formations resulting in horrendous casualties was also actual French doctrine in this period of the Battle of the Frontiers in the belief of the spirit of attack. Another thought provoking video thankyou!
I love the thumbnail picture. It's the Worcestershire regiment relieving the Royal Welch fusiliers at the battle of Gheuilivelt. Great video. I'm doing a project on this period, so it's good to see your video. In fact my project is a little earlier, The Retreat from Mons. I have hundreds of figures to paint. I've finished about 200 so far.
Spend much of my life looking at the Great War, but it’s always great to hear it again and pick up snippets that I have missed. Been looking into the Gallipoli campaign recently as I haven’t really given it the attention it deserves. Great video.
Thanks for this fascinating video. My grand uncle Patrick Joseph Savage, 12th ( Prince of Wales Royal) Lancers died in the first battle of Ypres on the21st October 1914. He was just 21 years of age. I believe he died the day his regiment arrived in Ypres. It’s difficult to get Information here in Ireland as a lot of WW1 records were destroyed during the Irish civil war in 1922. I made a pilgrimage to Ypres a few years back. It was moving to see his name on the Menin gate. I would love to know what happened to his unit on that day. Alas I don’t think I ever will.
Hello sir thank you very much for putting this together. Had an ancestor that was killed on Mont Sorrel and have been putting together a research project and this helped
It is in Flanders, the people who live there speak Flemish. The name of the town is Ieper, pronounced "Eeper". I can never understand why most English speakers, call it by its French name, when it is not in France or wallonia. Would Londoners like their city to be casually referred to as "Londres"?
@@HistoryHustle Unfortunately, no, because he passed on in 1942. I have gathered the information from my family and google - British archives. He was from the 40th Pathan regiment. He won a GSM(General Service Medal). Settled in HK after the war. Once again, good channel. 👍🏼
Just watched this again! I wish I could upvote it again, You do a great job explaining history most Americans know nothing about. I am not unread on the subject, Keegan is in my library, but I should have watched your video before I hit the books.
Another excellent video. A very key battle as you mention, set in motion the use of trench warfare until it was basically just trenches running from the Belgian coast to the Swiss Border. A really tragic turn. When I was 13 and learning about the FWW at school, we had a textbook which had an image of the devastated Cloth Hall at Ypres, I remember being so shocked and trying to imagine the kind of fighting that would have led to that kind of destruction we talking 1985 here so no YT and nothing on our limited TV service). That image stays with me to this day, only deepened by lots of reading and YT around the FWW. Thanks for the reminder of the playlist, due for a revisit⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trench warfare pretty much put pale to the best lade plans both sides had to use cavalry for a quick decisive victory. These soldiers who were used to fighting on horseback then had to endure the drudgery of trench warfare, along with all the squalid conditions it brought.
@@horace9341 one can only imagine how miserable it was trying to survive in the trenches, the accounts I have read are horrifying. RIP to all those who lost their lives In the trenches, and everywhere else💔
@@mammuchan8923 I can only imagine how it must have been. The smell of rotting corpses, the rats and lice. Plus always being in a state of anxiety whilst in the forward trenches. No wonder many didn’t want to talk about their experience. Some trenches were merely 50 yards apart and the soldiers manning them were under orders to maintain silence and only talk in whispers.
@@HistoryHustle the big screen movie “Narvik 1940” is released this year. It’s insane to think about the Germans being buttkicked out of the city by Norwegian and allied forces and pinched up against the Swedish border with only 4km2 to move around when the allies retreated out and left for France/Dunkerque when Hitler’s armies invaded. A couple of days/weeks more of fighting and the whole of northern Norway would’ve been taken from the German war machine and they would probably never been able to retake it due to most of the Kriegsmarine was sunk in the operation and they would never be able to get troops up north in large enough quantities. The Wehrmacht first loss in a battle was in Narvik
Hallo meneer Stefan. Net zoals de tweede wereld oorlog heb ik ook altijd naar de "great War" gekeken. Ik ben met ome Herman, u weet wel die SS'r , ;=) naar het Knekelhuis in Verdun geweest. Was indrukwekkend. Hitler heeft nog een IJzeren kruis verdient door moedig gedrag tijdens 1 van de veldslagen in Ypres of als soldaat of als koerier. Is mij niet helemaal duidelijk. Goed werk met deze video's. Ik kijk er elke keer naar uit. Met groet.
older generations here in the uk often said the British lee Enfield rifle was another reason the British army were able to be effective against the German army in 1914
@@HistoryHustle yes the tommies had the firepower of 2 men with the Enfield (it was meant for colonial wars) that's interesting as well as the insurgent groups in the middle east used them against UK troops as recently as the occupation of iraq. An effective reliable rifle I suppose.
Great video about 1st Ypres. I have wondered why both sides didn't use inundation as a defensive strategy. If you control downstream you can raise the water level upstream, a significant obstacle for infantry and cavalry. You can conceal wire and mines underwater and move troops away from enemy incursions. A thought, I wasn't there.
Greetings Stefan, may you make videos about all battles of Ypres salient, including battle of Passchedaele? Also I have a question: how long does it take for you to travel across europe to get one location for the video? Do you think it is worth it? Are you doing alone or with crew?
1:00 "Liége" was the name of my beloved mother 💗. It is a very rare name here in Brazil. Is it a rare name for women in the Netherlands too? Obrigado! 🇧🇷
By the end of the 1st battle of Ypres, the original BEF had ceased to exist. Perhaps the most professional army in the world at that time had been destroyed after 4 months of intensive fighting. But the worst of it was that was only a fraction of the casualties sustained by all the nations engulfed in the Great War.
Everything about WW1 is just so tragic, at first it was all patriotism and everyone thought they would crush the enemy in a couple months or so in some glorious adventure, then it turned into this grinding nightmare of trenches and mud and gas and machine guns. Not to mention those artillery bombardments that pounded everything into that hellish landscape of shell craters, naked soil and dead tree stumps.
WHY WW1 BROKE OUT:
th-cam.com/video/v_h03jDXuEw/w-d-xo.html
GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM (1914):
th-cam.com/video/sM_D4nWj8G4/w-d-xo.html
BELGIUM ARMY 1914:
th-cam.com/video/cS9dgLl0dwg/w-d-xo.html
@History Hustle
Canada is in real trouble of having our rights taken from us. We have truckers going to Ottawa. I know you don’t do modern stuff but the world needs to know!
The mainstream media is not showing much and lying when they do.
We are living in 1930’s Germany!
This Saturday is our revolt!
Just thought you should know!
Sleepless nights in Canada that’s for sure!!
Another well done piece of history. When I saw the title of trench warfare took me back when years ago when I told my son and his best friend in the backyard that in war they would dig trenches and foxholes. Then I left. In about an hour I looked out the window and those boys dug themselves a foxhole camouflage with branches. They made a campfire there stayed the whole night also guarding there territory from the unwanted sisters who kept on insisting to bother them. Playing war is a good memory. Being in war is a whole other issue
Interesting to read, thanks for sharing and watching the video of course!
War against sisters is always tough. A formidable foe.
@@horace9341 yes, the boys always seemed to get in trouble with them, but somehow the girls finagle their way out. Sisters are invincible. Loved watching them grow
Very interesting! My Grandfather was an United States Marine who fought in France during WWI. I enjoy your WWI and WWII History Lectures/Videos they give me an idea of what my Grandfather and other relatives went through in WWI and WWII. Thank you!
Thanks James. You ever met him? What were his experiences?
@@HistoryHustle No I did not get to meet him - his name is Thell Ross Neal - he died when I was one year old in 1954. On 15 September 1918 He was wounded in the Battle of Saint Mihiel and was saved by a small Bible and Sharpshooter Medal in his chest pocket that absorbed the impact of a piece of artillery shrapnel that struck him in the chest. Stories were written about him being saved from death by the Bible in his pocket. Biologically I am a "Neal" - I got my "Gibbs" surname from my Stepfather who raised me with my Mother.
My Grandfather was there too with the British Royal Horse Artillery. Unfortunately he died when I was very young but my mother would pass stories down. He was a cook and would often slice meat off dead horses when supplies failed to arrive. He was invalided out before the end due to a gas attack which pretty much plagued him with a bad chest for the rest of his life.
@@jamesgibbs7872 Was he at Belleau Wood
@@Autobotmatt428 yes he was from what information was passed to me by my First Cousin/another of his grandsons. I am just now beginning to research his WW1 history and very interested in finding all the details of my Grandfather's Life.
Al sinds jaren wilde ik naar Ieper gaan. Bedankt voor de mooie beelden. Het is altijd een maf gevoel, naar mijn mening, om door een stad te lopen waarvan je weet dat nagenoeg alle 'historische' gebouwen die je aanschouwt in werkelijkheid reconstructies zijn.
Inderdaad, toch ademt het de oude stijl. Ik gok dat ze in de jaren 20 beter waren om dit te maken dan in de architectuur na WOII.
Het zijn alleen maar de historische gebouwen die in hun originele staat herbouwd zijn , maar als Ieperling vind ik het nog altijd één van de mooiste steden van België . En Hitler heeft spijtig genoeg een bezoek gebracht aan Ieper tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog nadat hij het Duits kerkhof in Langemark had bezocht .
Excellent and incredibly informative video! I feel as though the first battle of Ypres often isn't discussed enough despite the role it played early in the war. My own great-granduncle Corporal Arthur Toms (of the Rifle Brigade) was killed during the first battle of Ypres at the age of 29, I visited Ypres during a school trip 10 years ago and it was an incredibly moving and emotional experience to pay respects at his grave. Thanks a lot for the video, I can't wait to watch another and learn even more!
Thank you for your reply Theo.
Great episode on the First Battle of Ypres after which the war switched from a movement war to a trench war. The number of casualties is shocking but sadly this would only be the first of many more terrible engagements during the Great War! Great work Stefan!
Many thanks, Luis!
Yet another superb piece of work, professor Stefan,..we are definitely being spoiled by you ! Without in any way seeking to toot on a nationalistic horn of some sort, your superb video immediately reminded me of the gassing suffered by my great-grandfather within trenches such as these, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force, which he volunteered for, and was not conscripted into, in 1914, and , of course, without any verified medical evidence at all, my dear old Grandma always blamed my own asthma ( I was hospitalized at two years of age ) upon the lifetime he spent coughing and spluttering. My great - great- uncle, William, was essentially obliterated by a German shell a mere few weeks prior to the Armistice. My family still treasures the beautiful letters his grieving father sent to the authorities on having his remains identified. He actually has no less than two memorial plaques, one in France, which we’ve visited, and one at home, in the tiny hamlet of Westerway, in Tasmania.
Thanks for your comment, Matthew!
For your ancestor's generation Ypres was known as 'Wipers' because of its horrendous casualties in subsequent battles.
Visited Ypres and Tyne Cot last september on my motorbike. For me it is a 1,5 hour ride, but always impressive to visite the various sites out there.
Agree.
Excellent narrative on Ypres. Lost one relative from this area around the dreaded Hill 60, Gas attack, 24th April 1915.
May he rest in peace. Thanks for your reply.
The same date that my grandfather got his wound and gassed just up the road in Evinghe village 18th Hussars.
I have my coffee in hand and eyes and ears open ready for class professor Stefan!!!! Another job well done! This was a good reminder of how trench warfare came about which you don’t hear about very often anymore. I love that you spoke of this on location in Ypres as this was such a significant city especially at the start of the Great War and a place that was tragically destroyed ruining so many beautiful and ancient buildings during that time. Great work as usual professor Stefan!
Thanks for your reply.
My Grandfather was involved in the 1st battle of Ypres. He was in the German 169th Infantry Regiment and fought at Givenchy near La Bassee in the southern area of the battle, just inside France.
Thanks for sharing. Did you ever meet him and did he share his experiences of the war? Love to know!
Hey there! Been meaing to say congrats on your recent accomplishments with your channel. We're thrilled for you. We've been watching your channel for a while, and have always said you deserve to have a large audience. Keep up the great work OG! xx
Thanks for your reply!!
I visited Ypres/Ieper a few years ago. It was a very moving experience.
Agree!
Canada!! Truckers are fighting for freedom!!
Driving the trucks to Ottawa and not leaving until all mandates are ended!! Freedom!!
To all locked down we will fight for freedom!!
Canadian proud!!
Excellent episode!! I bet we see more of that young man with that moustache. He looks like a menace!!
He sure was... Thanks for replying once again! Soon more on the Yser Front of WW1.
The dense infantry formations resulting in horrendous casualties was also actual French doctrine in this period of the Battle of the Frontiers in the belief of the spirit of attack. Another thought provoking video thankyou!
Thanks for replying!
I love the thumbnail picture. It's the Worcestershire regiment relieving the Royal Welch fusiliers at the battle of Gheuilivelt. Great video. I'm doing a project on this period, so it's good to see your video. In fact my project is a little earlier, The Retreat from Mons. I have hundreds of figures to paint. I've finished about 200 so far.
Thanks for your reply.
Spend much of my life looking at the Great War, but it’s always great to hear it again and pick up snippets that I have missed. Been looking into the Gallipoli campaign recently as I haven’t really given it the attention it deserves.
Great video.
Thank you, Horace. I'd love to travel to that area one day.
@@HistoryHustle Same here pal
Thanks for this fascinating video. My grand uncle Patrick Joseph Savage, 12th ( Prince of Wales Royal) Lancers died in the first battle of Ypres on the21st October 1914. He was just 21 years of age. I believe he died the day his regiment arrived in Ypres. It’s difficult to get Information here in Ireland as a lot of WW1 records were destroyed during the Irish civil war in 1922. I made a pilgrimage to Ypres a few years back. It was moving to see his name on the Menin gate. I would love to know what happened to his unit on that day. Alas I don’t think I ever will.
Thank you got sharing this.
Hello sir thank you very much for putting this together. Had an ancestor that was killed on Mont Sorrel and have been putting together a research project and this helped
Thanks for your reply.
Seeing the battlefield map like at 1:40 is always very helpful in videos like this. Keep up the bangin videos my man
💪 thanks.
it's pronounced WIPERS... everybody know dat :P another informative and great video... ww1 is so often overlooked but is a massive subject...
True. The beer WIPERS TIMES is good too.
Lol. I past Eat Apples the other day, on my way home from the UK! It's a long way to Tipperary!
My wife is French and they pronounce it ‘eep’
It is in Flanders, the people who live there speak Flemish. The name of the town is Ieper, pronounced "Eeper".
I can never understand why most English speakers, call it by its French name, when it is not in France or wallonia.
Would Londoners like their city to be casually referred to as "Londres"?
I appreciate your channel, my grandfather was in Ypres in 1915. Thanks for this historical coverage. 👍🏼
Thanks for sharing. Did he tell you about his experiences?
@@HistoryHustle Unfortunately, no, because he passed on in 1942. I have gathered the information from my family and google - British archives. He was from the 40th Pathan regiment. He won a GSM(General Service Medal). Settled in HK after the war. Once again, good channel. 👍🏼
Thats why History Hustle is so good, it's the many little details I didn't know. Truly enlightening as usual. Cheers.
Thanks for your reply Otis!
There is SO much to tell from ww1. Pick just about any sector of the front and they're full of interesting stories.
Indeed.
ik ben er net geweest, en jij vertelt me dingen die ik er niet gehoord heb. prima aanvulling !
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Just watched this again! I wish I could upvote it again, You do a great job explaining history most Americans know nothing about.
I am not unread on the subject, Keegan is in my library, but I should have watched your video before I hit the books.
Many thanks for your reply. Feel free to share of course :)
I also visit Ypres and all the war cemetry's. Also I visit the Last Post and the "loopgraven". Verry impressive.
Agree.
I love when u do History on location, It’s pretty incredible to see evidence of it still today.
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really love this subject, my great grandfather fought at this battle, very informative video
Great!
Thank you Stefan, another great presentation.
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Thank you Mr.History Hustle
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I love the early start of the war to show how the war would change from movement to trenches
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It simply became industrialised. Killing on a mass scale.
Another great video.thx Stefan 👍
👍 Thank you Lukasz!
Another excellent video. A very key battle as you mention, set in motion the use of trench warfare until it was basically just trenches running from the Belgian coast to the Swiss Border. A really tragic turn. When I was 13 and learning about the FWW at school, we had a textbook which had an image of the devastated Cloth Hall at Ypres, I remember being so shocked and trying to imagine the kind of fighting that would have led to that kind of destruction we talking 1985 here so no YT and nothing on our limited TV service). That image stays with me to this day, only deepened by lots of reading and YT around the FWW. Thanks for the reminder of the playlist, due for a revisit⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trench warfare pretty much put pale to the best lade plans both sides had to use cavalry for a quick decisive victory. These soldiers who were used to fighting on horseback then had to endure the drudgery of trench warfare, along with all the squalid conditions it brought.
@@horace9341 one can only imagine how miserable it was trying to survive in the trenches, the accounts I have read are horrifying. RIP to all those who lost their lives In the trenches, and everywhere else💔
@@mammuchan8923 I can only imagine how it must have been. The smell of rotting corpses, the rats and lice. Plus always being in a state of anxiety whilst in the forward trenches. No wonder many didn’t want to talk about their experience. Some trenches were merely 50 yards apart and the soldiers manning them were under orders to maintain silence and only talk in whispers.
Thanks for your replies guys!
@@horace9341 and I know this seems so small in comparison to what you have mentioned, but apparently the boredom had a large impact too.
Its nice to see more WW1 content. Interesting video Stefan :)
More will be covered 👍
Nice little town, been there a couple off years ago. History everywhere!
Thanks for this video.
Cheers, Bert!
Another great pieece. BZ
Hope to see more.
Cheers!
Excellent Stefan, I find your research very interesting 💪 Thank you 🍻🍻🍻
Many thanks Jesse.
An interesting introduction to Ypres. Nicely presented.
Thank you David!
Interesting as always!
Can you do something with “Operation Weserübung”?
If I ever get to travel to Norway then for sure. Can't tell when.
@@HistoryHustle the big screen movie “Narvik 1940” is released this year. It’s insane to think about the Germans being buttkicked out of the city by Norwegian and allied forces and pinched up against the Swedish border with only 4km2 to move around when the allies retreated out and left for France/Dunkerque when Hitler’s armies invaded. A couple of days/weeks more of fighting and the whole of northern Norway would’ve been taken from the German war machine and they would probably never been able to retake it due to most of the Kriegsmarine was sunk in the operation and they would never be able to get troops up north in large enough quantities.
The Wehrmacht first loss in a battle was in Narvik
Lovely video as usual. I absolutely love the hat.
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Thanks sir for this amazing video. btw sir can you do a video on german client states during ww1 and their militaries?
Thank you for your reply. I have this one for you, about Poland:
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@@HistoryHustle Thank you sir
Thank you for memories in Peace
Thanks for your reply.
My great grandfather was in the Belgian army (chasseur à pied regiment), He fought on the Yser front. We have an old picture of him with his uniform.
Thanks for sharing, soon more on the Yser Front.
Awesome video mate I hope you do the story on the angels of mons
Hope to travel there one day!
I have heard that Indian soldier had also fought in this area. Great video 👍👍👍 love the on the spot history teaching.
Thanks! And yes, Indian soldiers fought also here.
There exist pictures , i think some of them won the Victoria Cross at Wijtschate .
Very interesting!
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Hallo meneer Stefan.
Net zoals de tweede wereld oorlog heb ik ook altijd naar de "great War" gekeken.
Ik ben met ome Herman, u weet wel die SS'r , ;=) naar het Knekelhuis in Verdun geweest. Was indrukwekkend.
Hitler heeft nog een IJzeren kruis verdient door moedig gedrag tijdens 1 van de veldslagen in Ypres of als soldaat of als koerier. Is mij niet helemaal duidelijk.
Goed werk met deze video's. Ik kijk er elke keer naar uit.
Met groet.
Super. Bedankt voor je bericht.
My great uncle Eli Oakley of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers was killed in the first battle of ypres in October 1914 at Gheluvelt.
May he rest in peace.
good video
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Love the first we Srefan thanx again
Thanks Matthew!
older generations here in the uk often said the British lee Enfield rifle was another reason the British army were able to be effective against the German army in 1914
I can understand: it had 10 bullets instead of 5 like the usual rifle. The SMLE was even used by Dutch in Indonesia post-WW2.
@@HistoryHustle yes the tommies had the firepower of 2 men with the Enfield (it was meant for colonial wars) that's interesting as well as the insurgent groups in the middle east used them against UK troops as recently as the occupation of iraq. An effective reliable rifle I suppose.
Great video about 1st Ypres. I have wondered why both sides didn't use inundation as a defensive strategy. If you control downstream you can raise the water level upstream, a significant obstacle for infantry and cavalry. You can conceal wire and mines underwater and move troops away from enemy incursions. A thought, I wasn't there.
Thanks! Albert I from Belgium use inundation. Next week more on this.
Greetings Stefan, may you make videos about all battles of Ypres salient, including battle of Passchedaele? Also I have a question: how long does it take for you to travel across europe to get one location for the video? Do you think it is worth it? Are you doing alone or with crew?
Thanks for your reply. For sure I'll cover the other battles too.
As for your questions: depends where it is, it's worth it, I work alone.
A great town with a great history!
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My a grandfather was there for the second battle of Ypres
Thanks for sharing this.
1:00 "Liége" was the name of my beloved mother 💗. It is a very rare name here in Brazil. Is it a rare name for women in the Netherlands too?
Obrigado! 🇧🇷
Actually I don't know anyone with that name. Very rare indeed!
RIP Steward Esplin Canadian Black Watch 1915. Please do a video on 2nd Battle of Ypres.
One day!
Thanks for reply. Stewart is included on a enigmatic memorial stone in Arbroath Scotland. He emigrated to Canada and returned to fight.
Call his name: Hendrik Geeraert - the man who opened up the sluices in Nieuwpoort, flooding kilometers of land to force the Germans in to a stalemate.
Thought it was opened on more places. This werk more on the Yser.
By the end of the 1st battle of Ypres, the original BEF had ceased to exist. Perhaps the most professional army in the world at that time had been destroyed after 4 months of intensive fighting. But the worst of it was that was only a fraction of the casualties sustained by all the nations engulfed in the Great War.
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
The race to the sea reminds me of the Overland campaign of the American Civil war
Okay! Don't know much about the American Civil War.
@@HistoryHustle Check out the American Battlefield Trust thy have great animated maps and narrations about it.
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Belgium seems like it is two countries. Were the Flemish and Waloons equally opposed to the German invasion?
Well, in case you're interested I talk about it in this older video:
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Great Tom, thanks!!
i live there and i collect things from ww1
Cool!
Everything about WW1 is just so tragic, at first it was all patriotism and everyone thought they would crush the enemy in a couple months or so in some glorious adventure, then it turned into this grinding nightmare of trenches and mud and gas and machine guns. Not to mention those artillery bombardments that pounded everything into that hellish landscape of shell craters, naked soil and dead tree stumps.
WW1 was indeed an nightmare and tragic.
War is Hell.
It sure is.
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Im from Yper
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The fact that hitler fought in ypres.......
I know.
Slow down when showing maps.
Ok.
The mad minute cut down many German soldiers
That's what happened.
The British called it "Wipers."
Yes.
The beginning of the great tragedy of trench warfare.
Indeed.
im early
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Nice, quick video about the most mispronounced city/battle name of WWI. Ding dong & take care.
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Wipers.
Wipers Times is good beer.
@@HistoryHustle Wipe away the tears? Maybe Wipers had a slang double meaning.