My grand father went to the Boer war in the 3rd NSW lancers, he was in the 1st Australian light horse regiment during WW1, at the age of 65 he put down his age so he could enlist in the civil defense during WW2, they were most definitely tough guys from those times, my grandfather died in 1946, 20 years before I was born, I often wish I could have talked with him when I was growing up,
@@tonysfossickingadventure.8124 my grandfather (b. 1924) knew two men who enlisted with the british to go over and fight zulus and Boers, and they where ancient back then so I'll never get to talk to any of them, shame
Crickey! - 108 years old and still a pipe smoker! Much respect for this splendid old gentleman. I’m a serving infantry officer in the Hellenic Army. Many years ago, I commanded an Evzone Honour Guard detachment during the annual ANZAC Day ceremonies on the island of Crete. The event honours our Aussie and Kiwi comrades who fell in defence of Greek freedom in the Battle of Crete in 1941. I was then privileged to have met many Australian and New Zealander veterans of the Battle who had come to Greece at the invitation of the Hellenic Armed Forces to be honoured for their heroic defence of the island. Most of the veterans were then in their eighties; they were all fine old soldiers with many wonderful stories to tell, and I kept in touch with some of them for a good many years. In seeing this story I was very touched, and reminded of my good friends, who have all long since passed on... The Greek people have a special place in their hearts for these brave men - and for our British and other Commonwealth Allies - for their service to our country. Each year the memory of the ANZACS and their heroic defence of Greece continues to be solemnly honoured: Requiescant Omnes In Pace. On behalf of the Hellenic Army, I send my fraternal greetings and perennial gratitude to the people of Australia and New Zealand! 🇦🇺🇬🇷🇳🇿
Kind regards to you from a Retired Infantry Company Commander RNZIR. The battle of Crete was a near won thing! At least after that Hitler never committed paratroops again! I have heard of the bond forged in the defence of Crete between Creek and Kiwi and it is wonderful to see that even after so many years, that comradery is still there. Now we watch with apprehension the tension between Greece and Turkey - sad, so sad. God Bless you all.
Donald Duck - Thanks, mate! Yes, the bonds of friendship forged in adversity remain strong. True, the climate is tense; as a famous WWII poster declares, “Greece fights on...”. Warmest regards back to you and your countrymen!
President Xi Jinping's pox doctor - No worries, mate; you can have all the retsina you want; plus ouzo, tsipouro, raki, Metaxa, all the distilled spirits, beer, and vino you can manage. 🙂
as a kid and young man, I can still remember my Aussie born grandmother born in 1882 and her older sisters, the eldest being born 1872 living to ripe old ages well into their 90's. they also had Australian born parents. they didn't have an English accent at all but what maybe called an educated Australian accent similar to Pop's
Wow! 108 years old in 1988. I would have loved to speak with him. It would be very interesting to understand the thinking and, attitudes of someone from that time.
@@WorkingforGODglobal Are you a jihadist? 'cuz that's ISIS's goal, too. But you're gonna claim that your faith is the only correct one, which is what ISIS [and all the other religio-cults] claims as well. Y'all can both stuff yer religions and meet each other in Hell.
Working for God GLOBALLY there is a podcast on the 2nd Anglo Boer War, by Des Latham. Have you listened? If so, what are your opinions on it. Where can we find a good account of that war? Tired of hearing the British account.
i don't like the brits for what they did in the boer war to the little kids and women and so personaly i think the first and second world wars were karma for the brits
My great grandfather was a 1st world war veteran and I used to sit on his porch with him while he smoked his pipe and my mother of course always gave me bible lessons, well one day we’re sitting there and he said “son, when I’m gone, just know I love ya” (he was 109 years old at this point and not doing so well and he knew his time was soon) so I said “papaw, I will see you again in heaven” and he said “son, if you see me, you ain’t in heaven” the war never left him. He recalled stabbing a young German “boy” about 17 right in the eye and how he wished the boy would’ve just given up. My great grandfather Roy John Barker, May he Rest In Peace. Wherever he is.
@@themessenger5868 I don't think the boys were hoodwinked in WW1. A lot flocked to sign up. Some as young as 13 and were refused multiple times but eventually found the way. Yes, a lot also felt the social pressure also but not even remotely most. A lot also refused combatant roles as conscientious objectors and yet still signed up serving as unarmed medics and in logistics. Nobody at that point foresaw the absolute carnage of a fully mechanised war. Everyone thought that one army would be defeated and driven back and peace by 1915. Nobody imagined that machine guns would facilitate the stalemate of trenches and end of the horse cavalry era. Commanders were as inept to the new reality of warfare. The result was the first real war of attrition where men's lives were 'sacrificed' to drain the enemy's resources. As for heaven, God judges all by his will. He brought about, through the wickedness of men, the calamity of the world wars and other wars. It is a sin to give God some form of reasoning to salve the conscience for the events of these world, such as 'criterias' in judgement (it is in neither Scripture or Holy Tradition). If by His wisdom he condemns all to hell or non existence, His will be done. The first law is to love God above all. This includes family and friends as by the example of Jacob...
@kieran carpenter He was a soldier, and he killed another 'Soldier'...you're an idiot ! "Kraut ?" Your disrespecting the German soldier with your derogatory comment and your virtue signalling bullshit has blinded you to your own bigotry.
@@hanoitripper1809 Sonny boy, wake up! 1. Boers, 2. A handful of civilians, including old people and children shot and decimated a trained military empire!! There is a reason they call it black week! I would not go as far as calling rape, murder, theft, abuse, forced detainment and starvation "tactics"! I do not know if you are dumb or just asleep, but I do know there is no cure for your kind of ailment...
My Great Grandfather served in the Colonial Lighthorse and then the irregular Bushmanland Borderers unit. He was the last President of the New Zealand Boer War Veterans Association before they disbanded. He died in 1977, 2 days short of 98. There is an audio interview with him with NZ Sound Archives talking of his experiences.
Queen Victoria died in 1901. Televisions as we know them started appearing 30 years later. Colour technology was around early on but took longer to become cost effective in a home tv. The telephone was invented a few years before Queen Victoria died. So anyone living in the 1950s who were in their 50s were born in the Victorian era and saw the things mentioned above, hardly amazing. The development in aircraft is amazing as is personal electronics. I never thought when I was a kid that one day I could walk through the house with a book sized computer watching a movie, that I could use the same thing to talk to people and see them on the other side of the world. Even ten years ago I wouldn't have thought that drone technology and gopro cameras would have such an impact on how we see the world.
@@SomeHarbourBastard Yep! I saw that. Pretty amazing! Did you see the TH-cam video showing the rebels from the civil war doing their rebel yell? It was filmed in the 1920's and all these guys were about 90 years old. Freaking amazing we get to hear actual civil war soldiers do the rebel yell!
When this brave old soldier heard Edward Woodward singing "The Soldiers of the Queen" from the movie Breaker Morant he began crying, perhaps the only thing that could break his tough old exterior as he remembers the past glories. The video isn't about politics or who was right or wrong in a war fought nearly 120 years ago. Instead it's about the last man standing from a bygone era of empire and someone who did his duty for queen and country.
YEP, and that's the whole point to ANZAC Day, not to celebrate what happened, simply acknowledging that it did, and those who were involved, I think "enemy soldiers who have immigrated here are allowed to march as well.
It's easy to romanticise and ignore the reality of being a 'real' man in the 20th century. My grandfather lived his life in an unhappy marriage moving from one manual job to the next and smothering his depression after he left the army. He would have been healthier and happier if he were able to speak about his feelings and express himself like men of today can. Go back a generation before that and teenage boys had to stand in a sodden trench until their feet rot, they lost a limb, lost their minds or bled to death after being shot by another working class boy who, in another life, may have been their friend.
A lovely video that I like to return to every now and then. Just imagine all the changes that this gentleman witnessed from 1880 to 1988. Still doing things his way at the age of 108 and bearing the limitations of great age with dignity. RIP Pop and thank you for your service and spirit.
I can remember veterans of the First War when I was very young. They were very elderly men, mostly wheelchair-bound, who turned up every year to the ANZAC Day parades. I also remember talking in quite lively fashion with my Great Uncle, who flew Halifax bombers in the war. He happily told his stories, treated me like I was grown up. Of course, they are all gone now, these men of men, but it has been a rare privilege to know them.
@@thepuppylover8595 Yes, my great-grandfather was there too, managed to get in the way of something. He came home with a huge scar down the right side of his face, having gone on to serve in France. Lovely man, so I'm told, never met him, he never spoke about the war or what happened to him.
What a great man. He is everything that is great about the commonwealth and the bonds that bind us. Its why I cannot stand those who want to tear down the very things that are worth defending. I'm a Scot, proud to be British and proud of everything that the commonwealth stood up for, when the chips were down for real. Why we are still standing together today. I'm lucky to have stood shoulder to shoulder at Villers Bretonneux with Australians, Messines Park with New Zealanders, Delville Wood with South Africans, Beaumont Hamel with Canadians and Newfoundlanders, Nueve Chapel with Indians and Gurkhas, With Welsh Friends at Mametz Wood, Irish pals at Ulster Tower, and chatted with English mates at every site where my own countrymen and family fought and fell. To stand looking out over the wet muddy fields of Passchendaele with freezing low lying mist on a dark Winters morning, you can almost hear the far away skirl of the pipes, and all the accents mixing together. They will never be forgotten. Especially with Edward Woodward and Soldiers of the Queen. What a man was Pop.
My grand father was an australian who rode with the boers against the brits,he was a sniper and specialized in shooting officers,it was like shooting sitting ducks as they were on horses while the men walked.
Fighting to maintain independence is as noble a cause as any I have no knowledge of Australians fighting for SA I thought it was only the South African English and the Americans who fought against there own in this war
Soldiers of the Queen but is also known as Soldiers of the King (depending on gender of who sits on the throne). The song was used as a musical theme on the Australian Boer Movie 'Breaker Morant' thus the connection.
A wonderful book on the Boer War 'Commando' by Denys Reitz is still in print. It gives a vivid account of what the Empire soldiers had to face written by a young Boer who fought as light cavalry.
@@normdunbar2943 According to some nutter trolls here we all sided with Germany. Except for a few all the South African Generals in both world wars were "Boers".
@@davethorstry6700 The vast majority of Boers did not support fighting with the English in WW1, Germany was never our enemy, the English were. It would be the same as to ask Jews to fight for Germany 12 years after the end of WW2.
To educate you, before 1901, New Holland as it was commonly referred to, was made up of colonies, and the colony of New South Wales was the only one to send soldiers as New South Welshman, not as Brits.
Christ, he was born in a very different world. When he was born, breach loaders were new tech. The Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed. The Tsars ruled Russia. He was born under Queen Victoria. He was born before Australia existed as a country. That is crazy. Edit: changed muzzle to breach. Meant to say that breach orders were new tech.
I know. He's seen a total of 5 monarchs ascend the British throne, (4 annointed and Edward VII who abdicated before coronation) and was born during Queen Victoria reigned. Seen technology change from horse drawn vehciles to automobiles, telephone and rockets to moon. Seen Australia become Federation and independent and the list goes on. Really hope somebody in his family or close friends noted down some of his tales. Amazing. Edit: Edward VIII abdicated...
Absolute legend, he came from a time when men were men and they were tough as nails. My great-grandfather was in the 12th light horsemen in WW1, so my upmost respect goes to this man Lest we forget
My great great grandfather was apart of Company C, 135th Machine-Gun Battalion, 37th Division. He came back scarred very scarred. He never talked about his experiences at all only twice and what little my great grandfather remembered was that he was apart of the Meuse Argonne offensive and that the field medics had to remove both eyes because of a gas attack and cleaned the eyeballs and flushed the socket and then popped them back in during the one of the battles and he kept fighting when he came back he became a alcoholic he died in 1962 Memento Mori Rade Kosanovich
War is hell that's for sure, and it's sad the government doesn't do that much for veterans suffering from PTSD. And just like your great-grandfather they turn to things like alcohol
@@jarrodnaude3004 I watched a video on the hand to hand combat from what that video talked about and all the stories ive read basically had a form of shell shock
I'm an English ex infantry corporal, and may I say, this bloke, this true hero, is a typical Aussie Squaddie. They are the salt of the earth and hard as nails, god bless you all mates.
Veteran of the Boer War and WW1 !!!!! And they didn't take him for WW2 !!!!!! Shame, as his experience would've probably saved lives on Kokoda or Burma ...........The saying "They don't make them like this anymore" couldn't be anymore true !!!!!!!
what a great Australian so pleased the Boer War Memorial is finally completed in Canberra it pays tribute to fine Australians like Pop Williams LEST WE FORGET
A South african and descended from distinguished line of Boer war heroes.. I would love to see the memorial... thank you Australia for not brandishing the Boers what the rest of world does
Started work at my local district hospital in 1992 ... still a few WW1 vets and many WW2 vets coming through the geriatric ward I worked in. One man in particular I will forever remember. His parents came from England to set up a saddliery shop in Newtown (NSW) in 1904 and were soon deep in financial trouble due to a depression of sorts. He remembers his father saying to him saddle you horse and prepare for a 3 day journey as you and I are going to Bathurst to look at setting up business there ... the boy was 6 years old. The Doctors and nurses tried vainly to get old Bob to stop smoking ... a habit he had enjoyed since he was 8 years old and not likely to concern stopping at the age of 98! I would push him out into the sun so he could have a smoke and that I could hear his amazing stories of life in a past age ... his praise of the humble horse were endless and his love of working dogs deep ... recounting stories of the mathematical genius of the red kelpie and the cunning prowess of the red fox. I often did not know when his story was real or a take on my gullibility ... all good. He was old enough to see the "Cooee" boys march through his town and sadly recounted the governmental confiscation of his fathers majestic bloodline of stock horse to feed the demand for army horses ... he said that loss broke his father. I miss that generation ... rough as guts but kind as saints. Australia is worse for their passing. Vale boys ... Valhalla is no doubt happy to take you.
We don't make them like this old bloke anymore.Can you imagine if we end up in another war with this current generation.There are no safe-spaces on a battlefield my little lovelies.
Yes, about the thousands of Boer fighters, many in their eighties who endured what you can only imagine. They are the true heroes more than willing to fight for their country. Even boys "penkoppe" young as twelve. Braver than the brave.
The Boers were formidable opponents and skillful marksmen. Canadians also fought in that war. German Kaiser meddled in it by supplying arms to the Boers, Mausers, etc. Saw these captured rifles in a visit to U.K. many years ago.
The Kaiser didn't meddle, he is a heroe for selling us the best of the best. The only ones that meddled were the English and their supporters who meddled in the affairs of two independent nations and took them by force.
Kaiser meddling, What then were you dong, Think you had more right? Show how your farmed brain works! Yes, you would have liked for us to have less arms, would have saved you the terrible hiding and embarrassment you suffered. LOL.
@@davethorstry6700 That was long before my time. That intervention by the Kaiser led to tensions between Germany and the UK. My countrymen fought for many of the Empire's soldiers against the Boers. Admittedly the internment of Boer family members by the British was atrocious.
If that picture at 3:40 is him he was a handsome looking man, and looks like the guy who was executed with Breaker Morant in the movie. Woodward did a great job in the movie and singing the song.
What a proper soldier, you get the feeling that he would have been really itching to get stuck back in there in every conflict since ww2 Great Man. So glad I seen his video.
Fun fact, Australia was so eager to fight for queen and country that every colony sent troops before they even joined and became a country. Another fun fact is that Winston Churchill was there and Mahatma Gandhi fought for the British in this war.
@@lowiq3409 A normal, natural, and common thing that has been present throughout human history until it was deemed innapropriate, partly by British and French UN pressure, after WW2. I don't hear you calling Rome's invasion of Gaul a terrible war crime.
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So many wars and he still tried to get into the ww2 at 60. RESPECT!
My grand father went to the Boer war in the 3rd NSW lancers, he was in the 1st Australian light horse regiment during WW1, at the age of 65 he put down his age so he could enlist in the civil defense during WW2, they were most definitely tough guys from those times, my grandfather died in 1946, 20 years before I was born, I often wish I could have talked with him when I was growing up,
Bless his cotton socks 💜
How handsome was he when he was young!
He got hit in the head with a sword and still tried to fight the nazis, RESPECT
@@tonysfossickingadventure.8124 my grandfather (b. 1924) knew two men who enlisted with the british to go over and fight zulus and Boers, and they where ancient back then so I'll never get to talk to any of them, shame
Crickey! - 108 years old and still a pipe smoker! Much respect for this splendid old gentleman. I’m a serving infantry officer in the Hellenic Army. Many years ago, I commanded an Evzone Honour Guard detachment during the annual ANZAC Day ceremonies on the island of Crete. The event honours our Aussie and Kiwi comrades who fell in defence of Greek freedom in the Battle of Crete in 1941. I was then privileged to have met many Australian and New Zealander veterans of the Battle who had come to Greece at the invitation of the Hellenic Armed Forces to be honoured for their heroic defence of the island. Most of the veterans were then in their eighties; they were all fine old soldiers with many wonderful stories to tell, and I kept in touch with some of them for a good many years. In seeing this story I was very touched, and reminded of my good friends, who have all long since passed on... The Greek people have a special place in their hearts for these brave men - and for our British and other Commonwealth Allies - for their service to our country. Each year the memory of the ANZACS and their heroic defence of Greece continues to be solemnly honoured: Requiescant Omnes In Pace. On behalf of the Hellenic Army, I send my fraternal greetings and perennial gratitude to the people of Australia and New Zealand! 🇦🇺🇬🇷🇳🇿
Kind regards to you from a Retired Infantry Company Commander RNZIR. The battle of Crete was a near won thing! At least after that Hitler never committed paratroops again! I have heard of the bond forged in the defence of Crete between Creek and Kiwi and it is wonderful to see that even after so many years, that comradery is still there. Now we watch with apprehension the tension between Greece and Turkey - sad, so sad. God Bless you all.
Donald Duck - Thanks, mate! Yes, the bonds of friendship forged in adversity remain strong. True, the climate is tense; as a famous WWII poster declares, “Greece fights on...”. Warmest regards back to you and your countrymen!
Provide us with free rexina and we will come over and help defend Greece again.
President Xi Jinping's pox doctor - No worries, mate; you can have all the retsina you want; plus ouzo, tsipouro, raki, Metaxa, all the distilled spirits, beer, and vino you can manage. 🙂
ευχαριστώ for your thoughtful contribution, kyrios Philotheates
Hes so old he still has a slight trace of the original English accent of the first white settlers to Australia.
I thought I could detect an English accent
i already detect an English accent in most australian voices i hear
There was huge amounts of English migration well ibto the 1950s
All Australians sounded British prior to around 1960 . Watch some old interviews from news stations and you'll see
as a kid and young man, I can still remember my Aussie born grandmother born in 1882 and her older sisters, the eldest being born 1872 living to ripe old ages well into their 90's. they also had Australian born parents. they didn't have an English accent at all but what maybe called an educated Australian accent similar to Pop's
Wow! 108 years old in 1988. I would have loved to speak with him. It would be very interesting to understand the thinking and, attitudes of someone from that time.
MrPatatoes.... I'll tell you all about the 2nd Boer War
@@WorkingforGODglobal Are you a jihadist? 'cuz that's ISIS's goal, too. But you're gonna claim that your faith is the only correct one, which is what ISIS [and all the other religio-cults] claims as well. Y'all can both stuff yer religions and meet each other in Hell.
Working for God GLOBALLY there is a podcast on the 2nd Anglo Boer War, by Des Latham. Have you listened? If so, what are your opinions on it. Where can we find a good account of that war? Tired of hearing the British account.
It was an evil war of aggression orchestrated by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, Lord Rothschild and their cronies
i don't like the brits for what they did in the boer war to the little kids and women and so personaly i think the first and second world wars were karma for the brits
My great grandfather was a 1st world war veteran and I used to sit on his porch with him while he smoked his pipe and my mother of course always gave me bible lessons, well one day we’re sitting there and he said “son, when I’m gone, just know I love ya” (he was 109 years old at this point and not doing so well and he knew his time was soon) so I said “papaw, I will see you again in heaven” and he said “son, if you see me, you ain’t in heaven” the war never left him. He recalled stabbing a young German “boy” about 17 right in the eye and how he wished the boy would’ve just given up. My great grandfather Roy John Barker, May he Rest In Peace. Wherever he is.
Thank you for his service!!🙏🙏
Poor Winky, never made it to 18.
@@themessenger5868 I don't think the boys were hoodwinked in WW1. A lot flocked to sign up. Some as young as 13 and were refused multiple times but eventually found the way. Yes, a lot also felt the social pressure also but not even remotely most. A lot also refused combatant roles as conscientious objectors and yet still signed up serving as unarmed medics and in logistics. Nobody at that point foresaw the absolute carnage of a fully mechanised war. Everyone thought that one army would be defeated and driven back and peace by 1915. Nobody imagined that machine guns would facilitate the stalemate of trenches and end of the horse cavalry era. Commanders were as inept to the new reality of warfare. The result was the first real war of attrition where men's lives were 'sacrificed' to drain the enemy's resources.
As for heaven, God judges all by his will. He brought about, through the wickedness of men, the calamity of the world wars and other wars. It is a sin to give God some form of reasoning to salve the conscience for the events of these world, such as 'criterias' in judgement (it is in neither Scripture or Holy Tradition). If by His wisdom he condemns all to hell or non existence, His will be done. The first law is to love God above all. This includes family and friends as by the example of Jacob...
Disgusting
@kieran carpenter He was a soldier, and he killed another 'Soldier'...you're an idiot ! "Kraut ?" Your disrespecting the German soldier with your derogatory comment and your virtue signalling bullshit has blinded you to your own bigotry.
The things that man seen in his life. What an old gentleman. Rest in peace sir, you've worked bloody hard.
Once upon a time, the entire continent consisted of men like "Pop" Williams. Vale.
Better men than today for the most part. It is difficult in this decadent environment to be masculine, but I’m trying ‘n
Now we've been invaded by 3rd world trash brought in by our own governments :-(
@@jroch41 everyone feels so bad for shut the fuck up with your identity politics
Right. Now it's run by rabid feminists, soy boys, transvestites, and climate nutjobs.
@@orsondy If you support trash you are trash and need to be purged
Wow. This man survived the Anglo Boer war, First World War, Second World War and Cold War? That would be the interesting man to speak to.
You sure have a lot of innuendo's hahahha
Yeah but He didn't fought on ww2 or cold war dude wtf
@@Vicentemetalero if you read it, survived the war's not fought in all the wars
The man is a legend.
Man I don't know.. Wait till you could talk to me. I survived once a whole afternoon when the power went down.
A soldier of the "old Queen "Victoria. The commonwealth salutes you.
We shot you to shit..pity we didn't want to..you asked for it..we did it..from a Boer's great grandson
Glen Blignaut surrendered, then served the King in ww1 and ww2.except die hard Boerswho supported Hitler and sabotaged S. Africa in ww2.
@Roman von Ungern Sternberg Yeah, Africa came out of everything pretty solid though didn’t they?
@@cubasedoos after a change in tactics by the commonwealth the boors got shot to shit by the colonials
@@hanoitripper1809 Sonny boy, wake up! 1. Boers, 2. A handful of civilians, including old people and children shot and decimated a trained military empire!! There is a reason they call it black week! I would not go as far as calling rape, murder, theft, abuse, forced detainment and starvation "tactics"! I do not know if you are dumb or just asleep, but I do know there is no cure for your kind of ailment...
106 and oupa still smoking well and good
What a legend
These young kids with their "Great War"
Best comment here
@@Utiaux Best Comment here
All wars are great
@@honeybadgerstudios21 the wars are only good to those whom never experienced it
Originally the phrase great war was often confused for the South African war so actually historically accurate
My Great Grandfather served in the Colonial Lighthorse and then the irregular Bushmanland Borderers unit. He was the last President of the New Zealand Boer War Veterans Association before they disbanded. He died in 1977, 2 days short of 98. There is an audio interview with him with NZ Sound Archives talking of his experiences.
Is it available on TH-cam? If so, do you have a link?
What a blessed age...the life he's seen...the history....a legend at his age. Wish I knew him
Sadly we will never read a book on his life. His memories. Tragic.
I can assure you his story is correct as he was my great,great uncle.
Where is he buried mate , would really like to lay some flowers on his grave to let him know he will never be forgotten
Dirt Therapy Down Under yes, agreed. Let us know please
Wow
@Blummer 82 shut the fuck up
TheClassyMustache well said
It's crazy that some one alive in victorian times could still be alive when phones cars and colour televisions were around.
Colour film dates back to Victorian times. And the telegraph isn’t that much different to old phone technology
That’s nothing. There was a game show in the 50s where one of the guests was the last living person who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Queen Victoria died in 1901. Televisions as we know them started appearing 30 years later. Colour technology was around early on but took longer to become cost effective in a home tv. The telephone was invented a few years before Queen Victoria died. So anyone living in the 1950s who were in their 50s were born in the Victorian era and saw the things mentioned above, hardly amazing. The development in aircraft is amazing as is personal electronics. I never thought when I was a kid that one day I could walk through the house with a book sized computer watching a movie, that I could use the same thing to talk to people and see them on the other side of the world. Even ten years ago I wouldn't have thought that drone technology and gopro cameras would have such an impact on how we see the world.
@@SomeHarbourBastard Yep! I saw that. Pretty amazing! Did you see the TH-cam video showing the rebels from the civil war doing their rebel yell? It was filmed in the 1920's and all these guys were about 90 years old.
Freaking amazing we get to hear actual civil war soldiers do the rebel yell!
@@buyerofsorts Aye. It's just one of those things you know you'll never see, and yet, there it is.
When this brave old soldier heard Edward Woodward singing "The Soldiers of the Queen" from the movie Breaker Morant he began crying, perhaps the only thing that could break his tough old exterior as he remembers the past glories. The video isn't about politics or who was right or wrong in a war fought nearly 120 years ago. Instead it's about the last man standing from a bygone era of empire and someone who did his duty for queen and country.
almost made me cry
Not past glories, but past comrades and friends long gone.
The fallacy of 'duty' seems to get a lot of good people killed... 'in service' to bureaucrats.
@@largemarge1603Unfortunately it is the way of the world. Duty, Honor, Country.
YEP, and that's the whole point to ANZAC Day, not to celebrate what happened, simply acknowledging that it did, and those who were involved, I think "enemy soldiers who have immigrated here are allowed to march as well.
What a wonderful old man - lucid, articulate and spirited.
What a guy, what a story, tried to go to WWII at 60 years of age! Legendary, Australia should be proud of him
This is a breed of men long gone and will be forever missed! Shame what men are turning into today.
its a shame of society not the men themselves, we don't raise ourselves
@@newbleppmore7855 Couldn't agree more. Social media and modern world bollocks.
didnt he literally commit a war crime?
Yeah not all of us.
It's easy to romanticise and ignore the reality of being a 'real' man in the 20th century.
My grandfather lived his life in an unhappy marriage moving from one manual job to the next and smothering his depression after he left the army. He would have been healthier and happier if he were able to speak about his feelings and express himself like men of today can.
Go back a generation before that and teenage boys had to stand in a sodden trench until their feet rot, they lost a limb, lost their minds or bled to death after being shot by another working class boy who, in another life, may have been their friend.
Rest easy soldier. You earned your rest and our respect.
Geen respek. Hy het in n oorlog van aggressie kom veg ten einde twee onafhanklike lande in te neem. En hy het dit vrywillig gedoen.
@@lowiq3409 typical knob understand this english mate .....fuck you
@@lowiq3409 Speak English, barbarian
@@lowiq3409Look at your country now 😂
This man must have lived an amazing life. Thanks for showing. An outstanding Anzac.
This is the era i would have loved to be in, Hard times with strong brothers, not easy times with no brothers.
god i cry i every time i see the poor old bugger, he reminds me of my father, he was born in 1908
how old are you?
@@sarahmulqueen9014 probably about 70 - 90 tho I would say closer to 70
Were we all to live as long as this fine veteran! What a role model for now and all time. AND he still smoked at 108!
An absolute legend, RIP old digger you deserve nothing less
He looks like someone from that era as well. I’m glad we have interviews like this that we can still watch today
I had to do a rewind when he said he was SIXTY at the time of WWII. Incredible.
A lovely video that I like to return to every now and then. Just imagine all the changes that this gentleman witnessed from 1880 to 1988. Still doing things his way at the age of 108 and bearing the limitations of great age with dignity. RIP Pop and thank you for your service and spirit.
Lest we forget! Reminds me of the stories of Pop Beauchamp and his service of the empire, and all humanity later. From Canada
now that is a man, plane and simple. living to see so much and doing so many things in his life.
so now psychopaths are men, a murder is a murderer.
I can remember veterans of the First War when I was very young. They were very elderly men, mostly wheelchair-bound, who turned up every year to the ANZAC Day parades. I also remember talking in quite lively fashion with my Great Uncle, who flew Halifax bombers in the war. He happily told his stories, treated me like I was grown up. Of course, they are all gone now, these men of men, but it has been a rare privilege to know them.
I can remember world war 1 veterans my great great uncle was in Gallipoli
@@thepuppylover8595 Yes, my great-grandfather was there too, managed to get in the way of something. He came home with a huge scar down the right side of his face, having gone on to serve in France. Lovely man, so I'm told, never met him, he never spoke about the war or what happened to him.
Fantastic person and soldier. Thank you for your service. You did us all proud. A Veteran
But are NEVER forgotten. Lest we forget Mr Williams Sir. Thank you.
What a great man. He is everything that is great about the commonwealth and the bonds that bind us. Its why I cannot stand those who want to tear down the very things that are worth defending. I'm a Scot, proud to be British and proud of everything that the commonwealth stood up for, when the chips were down for real. Why we are still standing together today. I'm lucky to have stood shoulder to shoulder at Villers Bretonneux with Australians, Messines Park with New Zealanders, Delville Wood with South Africans, Beaumont Hamel with Canadians and Newfoundlanders, Nueve Chapel with Indians and Gurkhas, With Welsh Friends at Mametz Wood, Irish pals at Ulster Tower, and chatted with English mates at every site where my own countrymen and family fought and fell. To stand looking out over the wet muddy fields of Passchendaele with freezing low lying mist on a dark Winters morning, you can almost hear the far away skirl of the pipes, and all the accents mixing together. They will never be forgotten. Especially with Edward Woodward and Soldiers of the Queen. What a man was Pop.
Sort of a shame what's become of the UK.
Yes the British gave the world the concept and practise of the Concentration Camp from the Boer War
makes one so proud
@@rajivmurkejee7498 Whilst India has enslaved its people in a caste system, (that excludes Dalits) for nearly 5000 years.
You will find very few Boer names that fought at Delville Wood. They didn't fight for the English.
@@rajivmurkejee7498 you know your history Rajiv, from a Boer
My grand father was an australian who rode with the boers against the brits,he was a sniper and specialized in shooting officers,it was like shooting sitting ducks as they were on horses while the men walked.
We respect the soldier, not always the cause. In the U.S. , we have fought pointless wars for 70 years. The men on the ground are still heroes.
Fighting to maintain independence is as noble a cause as any I have no knowledge of Australians fighting for SA I thought it was only the South African English and the Americans who fought against there own in this war
@@splashafrica He was a true man.
Soldiers of the Queen but is also known as Soldiers of the King (depending on gender of who sits on the throne). The song was used as a musical theme on the Australian Boer Movie 'Breaker Morant' thus the connection.
Now that all the survivors have passed on, I get a terrible feeling that the world is going to repeat history.
What, a Boer war 3.0 ?
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 You might just be right...
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 The Boer war 2 never really ended. But started well in 1948 when the dogs in mangers could not handle it.
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Third Boer war started a long time ago.
Great to see the images of the Old Boy, he's got character etched in every line
They dont make them like that anymore!!
A wonderful book on the Boer War 'Commando' by Denys Reitz is still in print. It gives a vivid account of what the Empire soldiers had to face written by a young Boer who fought as light cavalry.
Reitz went on to serve in WW1 as a Lt Col in a British Guards Regiment.
Us Boers did not have light cavalry as such. Just men on commando.
@@lowiq3409 Those words were on the cover of the book but I get your point. Greetings from a rooinek in Canada.
@@normdunbar2943 According to some nutter trolls here we all sided with Germany. Except for a few all the South African Generals in both world wars were "Boers".
@@davethorstry6700 The vast majority of Boers did not support fighting with the English in WW1, Germany was never our enemy, the English were. It would be the same as to ask Jews to fight for Germany 12 years after the end of WW2.
Older than Australia itself, he may have been purely a British Citizen when he fought in that war, because Australia wasn't a country until 1901.
To educate you, before 1901, New Holland as it was commonly referred to, was made up of colonies, and the colony of New South Wales was the only one to send soldiers as New South Welshman, not as Brits.
@@Charliechorizo thanks for educating me Timmy schnitzel, this blokes from Queensland though, so I doubt he would have been calling himself that
Australia was around long before 1901 mind you..
He passed three months later, 28/05/1880 - 10/07/1988
RIP
Christ, he was born in a very different world. When he was born, breach loaders were new tech. The Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed. The Tsars ruled Russia. He was born under Queen Victoria. He was born before Australia existed as a country. That is crazy. Edit: changed muzzle to breach. Meant to say that breach orders were new tech.
I know. He's seen a total of 5 monarchs ascend the British throne, (4 annointed and Edward VII who abdicated before coronation) and was born during Queen Victoria reigned. Seen technology change from horse drawn vehciles to automobiles, telephone and rockets to moon. Seen Australia become Federation and independent and the list goes on. Really hope somebody in his family or close friends noted down some of his tales. Amazing.
Edit: Edward VIII abdicated...
Yes, he lived at small cattle property at Bridgeman downs, a suburb between Aspley and Albany creek, Queensland, Australia.
His house looks like a Queenslander
A life well lived. Outstanding.
thats a mans mustace not one of those hipster staces
That's a man's moustache, not one of those hipster 'staches.
Great video, great man! I come back and watch this every year. We will remember them..
Tough as nails.
Absolute legend, he came from a time when men were men and they were tough as nails. My great-grandfather was in the 12th light horsemen in WW1, so my upmost respect goes to this man
Lest we forget
My great great grandfather was apart of Company C, 135th Machine-Gun Battalion, 37th Division. He came back scarred very scarred. He never talked about his experiences at all only twice and what little my great grandfather remembered was that he was apart of the Meuse Argonne offensive and that the field medics had to remove both eyes because of a gas attack and cleaned the eyeballs and flushed the socket and then popped them back in during the one of the battles and he kept fighting when he came back he became a alcoholic he died in 1962 Memento Mori Rade Kosanovich
War is hell that's for sure, and it's sad the government doesn't do that much for veterans suffering from PTSD. And just like your great-grandfather they turn to things like alcohol
@@jarrodnaude3004 I watched a video on the hand to hand combat from what that video talked about and all the stories ive read basically had a form of shell shock
My Oupa Grooitjie het teen die Engelse Baklei in die Tweede Engelse oorlog. En hy het verseker nie vir die Engelse gaan baklei in WW1 nie.
Simply amazing.
what a guy!!! i wish i could understand him
What a bloody legend ! Good onya Pop. Lest We Forget
This should have been included in the documentary Australians at War
When World War One veterans think you're 'old-school'...
I'm an English ex infantry corporal, and may I say, this bloke, this true hero, is a typical Aussie Squaddie. They are the salt of the earth and hard as nails, god bless you all mates.
Thank you sir.
Veteran of the Boer War and WW1 !!!!! And they didn't take him for WW2 !!!!!! Shame, as his experience would've probably saved lives on Kokoda or Burma ...........The saying "They don't make them like this anymore" couldn't be anymore true !!!!!!!
Onya Digger, we’re here because of you👍
what a great Australian so pleased the Boer War Memorial is finally completed in Canberra it pays tribute to fine Australians like Pop Williams LEST WE FORGET
A South african and descended from distinguished line of Boer war heroes.. I would love to see the memorial... thank you Australia for not brandishing the Boers what the rest of world does
@mcchickenz Really? Well what we always knew about UK being racist has come out now straight from the harry horse's mouth last night!
They must just add a note that it was a war of aggression against two independent nations.
Great piece of reporting!!! thanks for creating the memories
You unbelievably lucky old man. Imagine how he must’ve felt being the last? How bloody sad😢😢😢
the old people of old the old days seem healthier than modern old people
Started work at my local district hospital in 1992 ... still a few WW1 vets and many WW2 vets coming through the geriatric ward I worked in. One man in particular I will forever remember. His parents came from England to set up a saddliery shop in Newtown (NSW) in 1904 and were soon deep in financial trouble due to a depression of sorts. He remembers his father saying to him saddle you horse and prepare for a 3 day journey as you and I are going to Bathurst to look at setting up business there ... the boy was 6 years old. The Doctors and nurses tried vainly to get old Bob to stop smoking ... a habit he had enjoyed since he was 8 years old and not likely to concern stopping at the age of 98!
I would push him out into the sun so he could have a smoke and that I could hear his amazing stories of life in a past age ... his praise of the humble horse were endless and his love of working dogs deep ... recounting stories of the mathematical genius of the red kelpie and the cunning prowess of the red fox. I often did not know when his story was real or a take on my gullibility ... all good.
He was old enough to see the "Cooee" boys march through his town and sadly recounted the governmental confiscation of his fathers majestic bloodline of stock horse to feed the demand for army horses ... he said that loss broke his father.
I miss that generation ... rough as guts but kind as saints.
Australia is worse for their passing.
Vale boys ... Valhalla is no doubt happy to take you.
What a legend. Nothing but respect.
Wow, this is great. He even knew the Breaker
He would be 138 years old today
passed away 2 months after this was filmed sadly
What an Aussie legend.
They don't make 'em like Pop Williams any more.
Deepest respect Sir!
I feel sorry, for his old warrior. God May help him, o spend his days in peace.
We must never forget!
...the British led horrors of the Boer War whereby they invented concentration camps?
Bloody hell! What a bloke.
thank u for ur service sir
I have two relatives who were veterans of both the boer war and ww1, one cut his foot on some glass and had to march 40 miles the next day.
Thanks posting 👍 a legend of a man 👏
We don't make them like this old bloke anymore.Can you imagine if we end up in another war with this current generation.There are no safe-spaces on a battlefield my little lovelies.
a transgender army
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Might be the go?We can put them where the fighting is the most fiercest.
Thank you
Well done Pop. Salute!
They don’t make em like that anymore.
Who could possibly dislike this post? Some, it seems.
Lefturds🤷🏼♀️
@@westaussie965 you farmed brains lot
Wow. Thank you, from Oklahoma!
We salute you from England mate.
At ease soldier. rest easy Poppy
God Bless your old soul Pop Williams
1988 in Brisbane. Greg Hunt advised in comments he is a relative..
We need to talk about the Boer war more.
Yes, about the thousands of Boer fighters, many in their eighties who endured what you can only imagine. They are the true heroes more than willing to fight for their country. Even boys "penkoppe" young as twelve. Braver than the brave.
The Boers were formidable opponents and skillful marksmen. Canadians also fought in that war. German Kaiser meddled in it by supplying arms to the Boers, Mausers, etc. Saw these captured rifles in a visit to U.K. many years ago.
rbf100 the second Boer war was also the first war Australia as a country took part in (Australia became a country in 1901)
Thieves are not entitled to walk over anyone.
The Kaiser didn't meddle, he is a heroe for selling us the best of the best. The only ones that meddled were the English and their supporters who meddled in the affairs of two independent nations and took them by force.
Kaiser meddling, What then were you dong, Think you had more right? Show how your farmed brain works! Yes, you would have liked for us to have less arms, would have saved you the terrible hiding and embarrassment you suffered. LOL.
@@davethorstry6700 That was long before my time. That intervention by the Kaiser led to tensions between Germany and the UK.
My countrymen fought for many of the Empire's soldiers against the Boers. Admittedly the internment of Boer family members by the British was atrocious.
Amazing! Wonderful old man! Gee, he would have remembered Queen **Victoria** in his youth!
A mountain of respect from me here in New Zealand.
Respect to you Sir 🇬🇧
Tough bloke just like Morant. All the best from England mate.
are you slow? this video is over 20 yrs old, he is long dead.
@@yellowpete79 no, im not slow.
Morant was a coward, murdering unarmed people.
@@lowiq3409 tough guy doing what he was meant to do, killing cowardly terrorists. I seem to recall the SA forces doing the same with SWAPO guerillas
@@lowiq3409 imagine caring for the other side in a war. Do not blame him for killing them, they’d have killed him if they could.
He’s the true Aussie battler. Seen plenty of war and still smoking at 108. I have beyond respect for this man. Thank you for your service.
If that picture at 3:40 is him he was a handsome looking man, and looks like the guy who was executed with Breaker Morant in the movie. Woodward did a great job in the movie and singing the song.
nice story..greetings from croatia
What a proper soldier, you get the feeling that he would have been really itching to get stuck back in there in every conflict since ww2 Great Man. So glad I seen his video.
We will probably never see another human who has balls of pure granite ever again.
lest we forget not all of us have forgot what these men did makes me so fucking sad look at us now
Fun fact, Australia was so eager to fight for queen and country that every colony sent troops before they even joined and became a country. Another fun fact is that Winston Churchill was there and Mahatma Gandhi fought for the British in this war.
Fun fact: they all fought a war of aggression against independent nations, a war crime.
@@lowiq3409 A normal, natural, and common thing that has been present throughout human history until it was deemed innapropriate, partly by British and French UN pressure, after WW2.
I don't hear you calling Rome's invasion of Gaul a terrible war crime.
Thanks man
Incredible story
He is now 137 years old and he has been living forever. His son, Justin David Green is now the oldest Dad.
I meet a 107 year old Spanish-American war vet in 1985.