Oakville's WW1 veterans interviewed, 1978
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- Oakville WW1 veterans Thomas Fairweather, David Shand, Albert Winn, and Leonard Wood were interviewed in 1978 about their wartime experiences.
Included on the Town of Oakville's TH-cam channel with the permission of film maker Gordon Reid.
Now this is what TH-cam should be recommending instead of all that nonsense.
I can't believe their accents. Canadians nowadays sound JUST like Americans except when saying a few words, whereas these men still sound very British.
It does for me down like all the nonsense like this stuff
Couldn't agree more Frank.
@@scottkrafft6830
Theres a large black community in Newfoundland with Irish accents.
Irish accents are very common because of isolation. Same would be true of isolated English communities.
Many British soldiers who served with Canadian regiments returned with their regiment.
Including a British General who was being hunted by the I R A who fled after a Field Marshall was shot in London.
He went to the Newfoundland Fusilliers to be close to his regiment, and carried 2 pistols and a knuckle duster everywhere he went
The I R A found him.
They were persuaded not to go through with the assassination because theyd never escape ,convinced by the catholic priest who they went to for confession that morning.
Many veterans were paid as Auxiliary police and "Black and Tans" paid £1 a day to suppress the population. 1919 - 1921
They created outrage by burning down 24 villages in 4 weeks , summary executions and torture.
Many found that they could not return to Britain because of infamy and a large irish population there.
@@scottkrafft6830 60% of the population is 1st English then irish, then scottish. (102,000 today ) and the population in 1920 was only 3,000.......So, 2000 odd would have been English
English 45,435 24.89%
Scottish 31,870 17.46%
Irish 30,795 18.72% (today)
1841 550 -
1871 1,684 +206.2%
1901 1,643 −2.4%
1911 2,372 +44.4%
1921 3,298 +39.0%......................that implies that they were first or 2nd generation english, irish and scots.
The children of those who moved there in 1871 would have been the right age for WW1.
The only accent theyd learn would be from other english, scots or irish.
It is kind of sad that they are all gone, forever, I hope they are all at peace now.
True but veterans of the battle of Hastings, American revolution and civil war, Mexican revolution etc are gone too. Appreciate who we have now.
cruz loera yeah but it’s extra sad because it is filmed and you know everyone in that video died.
nietjonah facts
Be a miracle if they weren't home by now
LloydDutch Smiley more people like should exist
I'm so glad someone thought to interview them while they could.
i agree, cause they're all gone now..0
World War II veterans will soon be all gone too. They are mostly already gone.
@@o-o6355 No shit Sherlock
Absolutely the interviews and footage has to be copied many times in different formats and preserved in Many places to ensure survival forevermore.
Crazy how not a single person who fought in the war is still alive. 70 million military personnel total and they are all gone.
They'd have to be over 120 now so it's not crazy really
It seems crazy but then you go deeper and realize the trillion on trillions on TRILLIONS of people who are dead right now and it's not all that shocking
is more sad to think ww2 vets will be gone too
@@-t96 It is currently estimated that around 100 billion people have ever lived, not trillions lol
Michael style trillions and trillions of people have never existed I think you meant billions
I fondly remember sitting on my grandfather's lap asking him to tell me about his days in WW1. Also he would tell me stories of his grandfather telling him stories of his days in the Civil War.
That is awesome!
....damn
That’s incredible
The hell these men witnessed and lived thru. My God. Heros everyone.
Why are they heroes? They are murderers
@@stevens5541 That all ya got? Murderers huh? Well okay then PFFFT. Enjoy the safety and quality of life you have protected by Murderers, if they weren't things would be very different for you big mouth. Just how would you get an invading army out of your home? Big hug? Thinking as you do I'd say your the "live on my knees" kinda guy rather than die on your feet fighting for those you love (if your capable of that emotion)
Steven S You dumb ass! All heroes. We enjoy this life, from there giving, some gave all. What have you given? Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
@@warrenchambers4819 The Great War caused the rise of fascism, world war 2, a great many famines and pestilences of disease spread perhaps via the mice that lived on fresh rotting corpses akin with to the Dark Ages of Europe, economic collapse. I don't have any family on my father's side because of it except my dad. Yeah, real great ''safety'' it brought, didn't it?
My father's family died for nothing but the ignorance, violence and imbecility of humanity.
It could have all been avoided and that poor boy who was intervewed as a man in this video could have avoided seeing the guts of another man splattered all over his field of vision while he was still an impresionnable young lad.
I'm not at all proud they had to murder Germans, it created such an emnity and horror to Germany through paranoia and fear that it gave the compost on the weeds of Hitler's rise there, and for good reason Germany was scared of the world - look how cruelly it got treated. They didn't deserve the nasty barbarism our civilization decayed into in those years.
I wish these men were still alive 😪 last living ww1 veterans died in 2012 😪
Wasn't it 2011?
@@nibsin no it was 2012. Joined at a young age, I believe the vet was an ambulance driver.
@@johnnyb7628 do you know how old he was when he died?
The greatest men to have ever walk the earth!
British veteran Harry Patch was the last survivor of the war, he passed in 2009. He said the war was nothing but "legalized murder".
When I was a kid in High School, there was a WW1 vet living a few houses away from me and when he would sit outside my friend and I would talk to him. he passed away and they said his war injury, bad lungs were partly the cause of his death.
When did he pass away if you don’t mind me asking
@@LusCrowley it had to be after 1953 but before 1960. I was in High school when i first met him
Wow how old are you now sir
@@noc805 I left Germany about two months before Elvis Presley got there and by the way we both used the same transport ship to get to Germany. the USS General Randal. I will let you figure out how old I am but I am older than what the other commenter thinks I am.
@@eogg25 I think you are in your late 70s now sir, i would say 78 or 79, must be nice having those memories
Happy these were done and now shared, otherwise these first person accounts would be lost forever. Tks.
I just came across this fantastic time capsule. Thank god for film and to the uploader but most of all thank god for the internet and youtube that let us have access to such amazing historical treasure.
The way the first veteran, Mr. Wood, recalls the trenches in the first clip and his expression changes and his face turns to sheer horror and despair as the memories come back to him. You can tell he hadn’t relived those for a long time until that moment.
Must really be hard to live with such dark memories.
Rest in piece all those that fought for you and me in WWI and WWII. Eternally grateful to all of you for this easy life I have.
I was literally thinking the same thing it’s almost like I could feel his pain 😞
Yeah, he was talking about rats on the parapet, and then something hit him...a bad memory.
...their gift of the easy life which you're all chucking away now to other invaders. I'm Nigerian and cannot believe how far down the West has sunk in the name of bleeding heart migration. FYI I'm still in my country Nigeria and intend to stay there for the rest of my natural life.
And sadly, we approach that moment quickly enought with the WWII, most of them are in their 90's
I not just realized that we don’t have much longer with ww2 vets when my grandpa died in 2019(he was a chemical engineer in his late twenties when had started on project Manhattan) and I started to really think about the fact we don’t have much time left with those wonderful people.
Look at a map of Europe in 1914, then look at one from 1978 and just think of how much change these men had seen over their life.
I can't get over the fact that these men were already elderly in the late 70's, and yet the last of them passed in the 2010's.
Human lifespan is amazing.
The first gentleman comes to tears at the thought of the trenches. I served in Afghanistan and there’s times that do the same for me. Why does man not realize that the endeavours of war is what keeps man from becoming a worthy being. We all crave the same thing, a fair chance. Only the greedy have an excuse for war.
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I don't understand, why join the military if only the "greedy" want war
It's a shame there isn't more WW1 veteran interviews on youtube.
I became a member of the Oakville Police Force June 28th, 1971. I knew some of these men. Both my grandfather's fought in WW 1. Both agreed that it was a war about an argument between King's who were related. Millions dead for nothing. WW2 had to be fought,but it was necessitated by the First War. We've learned nothing over the centuries.
hey canada, maybe learn orthography, thank you.
@@aaaab384darn aren't you smart , I had to lookup what orthography even meant
@jacobkudrowich4507 wtf. Never been to elementary school? Or just canadian?
@@aaaab384show some respect
@@heccsclips3319 To the dumbass who has never heard about orthography and thinks that "lookup" is a verb? Yes, lots of respect, canada.
The greatest men to walk the earth and they served valiantly and risked their lives so that we could be a free country and we will always remember them for all eternity
Sadly my grandfather passed in 72 was gassed disabled from the mountains of Tennessee miss you Charlie .RIP.
10 billion plus shells fired in ww1 i read some where before, was a certain kind of hell that war, thanks for uploading this
Thank you brave men.
God bless these brave men and R.I.P
FANTASTIC VIDEO!! Both of my Great Uncles fought (and died) at Vimy Ridge.
Them and ww2 vets were my heros growing up .. now im older i remember the sadness in them all .. great men .. look atbkids heros today .. what happened ...
im a kid and the ww2 veterans and the soldiers fighting overseas in afghanistan and iraq are also my heroes
@@jjcapo3426 God bless ya son .... these kids were kids ..... 20yr olds flying bombers.. in my country . New Zealand ... ww1 ww2 effected everyhouse ..... every family .. being such a small population , had family fighting .... when i grew up it was still raw in peoples minds .... it was 15yrs ago ... now im old i realise that 15yrs ago was yesterday ... now i know why they didnt talk .. they all drank in their sheds all wkend and at night ... always a touch of sadness in them .... if theyspoke about the war .. u listened ,i could see the tears behind their eyes .... so glad that they have been interviewed .. should be shown in schools ..... so war is personalised .... then it hits home .. like it did to us older people ... my mum is in her 90s .. i still see the tears talking about uncles, cousins etc that were never seen again ...
Mike S I'm quoting this off of someone else but they said "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and wise to go kill eachother"
@@jjcapo3426 so true ..
Proud to be Canadian 🇨🇦
David Christen just remember that you have justin trudeau
I'm sure you're proud! You did an excellent job being born in exactly the right place! Great thing you've done there buddy!
Winning Grinn it’s an outstanding country
@@douglaslyckholm1857Trudeau>Biden>Trump
Vaccinium augustifolium Trump isn’t even the president anymore. I see he lives rent free in your low IQ head.
damn I feel so young. January 18th 1978 here. God bless to all Veterans out there... Hooyah...PS. Thank you for up loading this fantastic interview or rather pseudo documentary.
Deathfromabove sadly there a no world war 1 veterans left. Unless you meant veterans in general
January 18th 1997 here, i would've been around the exact age to go join the war if born 100years earlier
"Damn big man eater!" Never heard that expression before for an artillery shell. Those kind of little peculiar things only people who were there know are fascinating with interviews like this.
Damn big man eater was he not talking about a Rat?
@@discoveryman59 1:55 he says “y’know what that was? A big man eater, a rat” I think they called them man eaters because rats would devour the organs of corpses in No mans land.
I’m learning about this war in my world history class. I’m so thankful i found this video. God bless all the brave people involved in this war. May they rest in peace.
My grandfather served in the Marine Corps in WW I in France and told me stories when I was a kid. Incredible stories and what he saw.
Very emotional, I really appreciate the sharing this video.
They were just young lads around 20 years old and they had to endure that horror. The memories are still fresh in their minds 60 years later.
They never forgot that horror.
They tried but they couldn't.
Proud to be from the same town as these brave men
History must be preserved.
The eyes of the first veteran... No words..
I'm only 20 and my dad's really into war documentaries and served in the army. I really appreciate everything these soldiers have gone through to protect us man. It hurts and it sickens me to think as the brave men lying taking their last breaths were thinking or even screaming for their mothers or father's etc. It's frightening to think about. War is pure evil WW1 would of been so awful in the trenches. If you didn't run out you got shot onsight for cowardness, to think how young all these soldiers were man. No matter what I hope they get a special place in heaven man
The interviews are amazing
It's crazy that all the WW2 veteran's are the same ages as the WW1 veteran's was in the 70's and 80'S, R.I.P to all the WW1/WW2 veteran's 💙🙏🌹🕊️💙
many thanks for the upload..
MINDBLOWING!!!! GOD Bless from Texas. Y’all ‘s bravery was and still is second to none. WW1 the war that doomed the world over elitists greed and hurt feelings. RIP. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Same thing is still going on today mate .
Brave brave men - i feel your strength every day.
*Well ... Even with all the veterans of the Great War having already died, the world still has many veterans and their historys. Iraq,Vietnam,Korea and even some WWII veterans are still alive*
All honour to these men -I was very interested that these Canadian men I presume born in the 1890's had British accents where as Canadian's today have American ones
These men were born and raised in the UK, and immigrated to Canada and became Canadian citizens post WW1. They retained their accents even after living 40 - 50 years in Canada.
So they are British veterans not Canadian one's?
@@5888max I suspect so given the strength of the accents after living in Canada for so many years; it seems logical they served with the British Expeditionary forces as young men, and emigrated to Canada post WW1.
British, Canadian, doesn't matter. We are forever grateful for their sacrifice. PS. I'm from the far north of Scotland and one a few Shands. I wonder if your chap there was related....
Britain and Canada were one in the same back then, not so much nowadays
Don't be sad that their gone, be glad they were around and shared their wisdom to us.
Very interesting video I always sense a terrible sadness with these WW1 men in particular as they had to harbour all those dark memories to themselves for many years. They were only young men when they went to war but it was the unfortunate era of having to be stiff upper lipped and not letting their emotions show. And when the war was over they were expected to just fit back into society imagine having to do that
You couldn't talk about Vietnam when we came home, it makes people feel guilty. My father threw me out of the house when I came home because I told him the war was wrong. No one in my family knows any thing about my war experiences and like these men we all carry the anguish of lost friends forever, veterans carry the darkness while society runs away. Both my grandfathers fought in France.
I'm glad I'm old enough to remember WW1 vet marching on ANZAC day.
It's sad to see that in 1978 world war 1 had ended 60 years ago (still pretty long ago) and there were still many veterans left. Pretty sad how time passes so quickly it has been 40 years since 1978 and 100 years since world war 1 has ended. And there probably isnt even one world war 1 veteran alive
Unfortunately the last WW1 veteran to pass away was in 2012.
@@netneutrality5461 yes I know RIP to all who served
@@netneutrality5461 young people go suffer in ww1 and ww2 and old people plan it out
Very few of World War II too, how many are left?
@@forgttenjungle1248 probably in their hundred of thousands. Pretty sad there won't be any left in the next 15-20 years. I've been blessed to meet 6 WW2 Veterans. I live in New York and every year in Washington DC on the first of September, they have a WW2 Remembrance day where lots of WW2 veterans come. I still remember it was very hot and I was impressed on how the old men were able to stand in that heat 😅
Imagine surviving ww1 and living to 100 yo plus and seeing the development of War through the years
I remember as a child I was in grade school and WWI veterans would come and talk to us about the history of what happened. It is so crazy to think they are all gone.
A rare & precious gem in the vault of history
Nowadays young students, the same age now that these men were in WW1, get "trigger warnings" of any material in their courses which might upset them. They're warned in case they READ something which upsets them. Not experience something upsetting but read about it. What have we become?
pbegley99 I don't know but I hate it
Mollycoddled wimps--that's what we've become.
We have become incredibly weak
We haven't become weak, THEY have, maybe you have, but I haven't.
Nathan Chancellor
Good but quite a few people have issues because they are not hardened
3:50 If you look you can tell he still can see everything he is talking about vividly. Like he is there. So amazing and beautiful.
Here I am at home in 2021 and the worst of my worries in lockdown in Sydney Australia. What these brave people dealt with during war are the stuff of nightmares.
May they all Rest In Peace and hopefully their nightmare is over
Just think about every soldier that maybe saved his brothers and killed man after man and fought for his life in hand to hand combat but was killed in the next days push or an artillery shell fell on him and erased his past from history with nobody being able to share what he had done
Billy talent
@@520angling5 yes sir.. saw them live twice
Love the harmonica tune 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and 'Click goes the shears' on the piano...
Rest in peace brave souls... We salute you and... We shall remember you...
Thank you for this video it truly is amazing and these memories accounts true history need to be saved and passed passed on
We can't imagine how these brave souls suffered in the years after the war. Nightmares, flashbacks, regrets, days without sleep, still they went on.
I was told my when my Grandfather came back to Canada from WWI he packed his war chest , medals and all and disposed of it and never spoke a word about it for the rest of his life . RIP
How sad but totally understandable. It was an absolutely brutal war.
Those men would no doubt say that they were ''just doing their job'', but they were each & every one of them , absolute unsung heroes. Thank you for your service genlemen, may you & all of your fallen comrades rest in peace.
I met a few veterans in my youth brave men who went through hell for us.
I feel bad for Leonard Wood, you can tell on his face the war was traumatizing. Still effecting him after all those years.
We still think about you guys
Very pleased to hear these real accounts by these veterans. God bless them all.
This is beautiful. These are the last voices to warn us of what the future holds. History shall repeat itself if the lesson was not learned.
If you did not know, the last surviving World War 1 veteran died in 2011 at the age of 110.
Even in there older ages they still marched proudly, like a soldier with his shoulders back and head high. What a group of men that has walked this earth.
Fascinating
Only met two WW1, Vets! First in 1966, other in 1974, before I joined the Marines at VFW station 💕😬
magic
How old are you? old gentleman
@@alfredchung1367 68! Tomorrow 😳to you Gung Hay Fat Choy 💥😬
Every generation of veterans comes back a little less destroyed than the previous… a broken tool is still a broken broken tool… we are just getting our tools back in less pieces than previous generations… it’s easier to mend, but broken is still broken!!! 💯❤️
Thank you all ❤️
They won’t be forgot
This is why Donald S. Cherry was upset people ignore veteran sacrifice and neglect wearing the poppy. These men right here.
thank you f or this. are some of these amazing fellas british veterans? i cannot pinpoint thier accents. thank you for amazing upload and stunning footage. treasure!
Are they from Oakville, Canada? If so it’s amazing that their regional English accents are still so strong.
God bless them all.
God bless them all
God bless you all rest in peace 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Lest we forget.
Thank you for the upload, very emotional and educational, these should be televised more so that the younger generations can have the choice to educate themselves and appreciate what these great men did for us.
@@Taylor-sv7tm indeed.
Oh no, as a Nigerian I can assure you you've all forgotten. You've done far worse even, you've betrayed those men and women who paid a costly price with their lives to give you the liberties and the good life you had since those wars ended.
So all these veterans moved to Canada after the war? It's interesting how their accents are still strong. I've known people move to Canada or America and their accent changes after a year.
Alot were from Canada who had 1,000,000+ soldiers going over to fight.. including a few of my great great Canadian uncles
I feel like if you grew up somewhere, it's quite hard to change accent after that unless you make a conscious effort to
This is so moving. What incredible men, they lived through hell.
my dads grandmas uncles brother fought in ww1 he was a Scottish solider during a battle he got shot in the stomach later where he died in a French hospital
Oakville is a wealthy town that had alot of British people.
All of these are my dead human fellows. Love 😢
Thank you.
The last American WW1 veteran died in 2011 at age 110.
This is great
There were soldiers as young as 13-14 year olds in WW1
I saw a headstone of a fifteen year old in Ypres. Scary....
Cool to see this.
Notice how all the veterans have British accents despite living in Canada?
Looking at someone from the old generation almost burst in to tears talking about something, our generation should just pay attention! Since this was people that was not so easy offended.
I am happy that they are no longer here! In this way they do not have to witness the destruction of what they fought to preserve. Cannot imagine what this would do to them after all that they sacrificed!
I look at what the West has become, politically correct,soft ,white shaming ,cow towing to China ,these great proud gentlemen would be mortified.
Albert Winn seems like a very classy fellow.
Lol
And we thought our grandparents were old
@@aadil-alihamir5986 my great grandfather died in 2019. He was 99 y/o his brother died in an Alaska campaigns in ww2, he himself was a chemical engineer on project Manhattan.
My grandfather was born in 1934
ah man, that first gentleman starting to cry made me want to cry, too
I went paintballung once and we set up an ambush near a stream. It was the perfect ambush, my heart was beating out of my chest. Then I thought, imagine if this was for real and this was live ammunition. Imagine if the stench of death was in the air. Imagine being covered in lice, imagine being hungry and thirsty. Imagine all your friends dead. Imagine the thought of never seeing home again.
I let the ambush play out and just sat there thinking of these guys.
They were old even in the 70’s
Beautiful
thank you
🌹🌹 the families it destroyed... our grandfather came back with shell shock, he was a wreak we were told.., he would drink and was a nervous wreak that attacked our mother and her siblings.., 🌹 peace grandad🌹
Did this guy make it into the "They shall not grow old" movie?
RoBoVader no. The last ww1 vet died a few years ago
he may have. The voices and stories used were probably taken from old interviews such as this.