Stephen, I'd like to personally thank you for taking the time and the interest in identifying and showing these historical battlefields to all of us. I had grandfathers and great grandfathers in the Battle of the Somme and Vimy and to actually see the landscape and know the names, is an amazing thing for me. Thank you again.
May I join others in thanking you for sharing your journey back to one of those unbelievable times when a human life was only worth a yard or two of dirt. The numbers are astounding. Your videos and commentaries are very well done and professional and your narration, while uniquely regional, adds a kind of poignancy. It's as if a Tommy was reminiscing. Bravo!
Thank you, you bring the souls of the conflict back to life, what a great memorial to these lost men who fought here. To think they died never seeing the landscape like this and where your drone is was where the shells bursts and signals were seen by the soldiers. Such a tragic waste. Thank you once again.
I have been watching you're videos for about a week now and they truly are incredible. The respect you show to the locations you visit and the men who fought the war is perfection. We should never forget those who sacrificed all in the great war which was unbelievably brutal. Thank you so much for making these and the time and effort you have put into them truly shows. Much love from the 🇬🇧
To echo what so many others have said, thank you so much, for this and your other videos which are an invaluable companion to the books I read about the war.
Thank you for posting such an interesting video. The aerial perspective is fascinating and your explanations very clear and informative. Cheers from Canada.
After the war, even until today, the poor farmers were/are in danger of unexploded ordnance. I know the desmineurs are still at work. Outstanding video Steven. Really top work.
My Grandfather ACSM Albert Jordan (1st SA Light Infantry) fought at the Somme - more notably Delville Wood. He was awarded The Distingushed Conduct Medal (DCM). Wounded twice between 1915 and 1917 when he was repatriated to England to recover, he returned to Northern France after each occasion. These videos are so valuable. I now have a more vivid and poignent perspective of what people went through on these battlefields.
Thank you for watching. I have walked through Delville wood or as the soldiers called it 'Devil's wood'. A very peaceful place now. There is a very good visitor centre operated by the South African government there.
I lived the first 25 years of my life about a hundred meters from the sanctuary of Lorette (just in front of "le bois des boches" near the "fond de buval") ... I remember that after the farmers plowed the fields, all I had to do was bend down to find all kinds of relics (jacket buttons, bullet casings and even shells sometimes) Every piece of land has been inundated with the blood of these brave men ... what a waste. I have a relative who belongs to the "Lorette guards" and who makes sure they all rest in peace. We do not forget. Thank you for the awesome footage (and apologise for my poor english)
Outstanding Public Service Steve! Very nicely done indeed. It is my understanding that my Grandfathers fought with the RFC & RN. Would you please consider filming the areas where some of their aerodromes were? Thanking you in advance. From Alaska....... Gary
Thank you for watching. Can you give me the locations of the airfields. I am in France quite a lot and even if I do not make a film out of it I can send you the raw footage.
Thanks you so much for bringing these wonderful and enjoyable videos.This history must not be forgotten. The work you do is amazing please keep your work coming. Thanks again.
You videos are the greatest.The drone footage enables me to really understand the lay of the land and where things happened, in a way that nothing short of going there could compare to. Even being there, you wouldn't have the view that a drone gives you.
Thank you for watching. From the ground its hard to see how the land affected the various attackers and defenders. But from the air you get a far better view to help you understand the events there.
A great job Steven, I have been researching for years and been to most of these places, you are building information and knowledge for everyone to see and understand...more please
Thank you once again for these wonderful uploads showing the 1st World war battlefields and the cost to human life. I just watched "They shall not grow old, " the excellent film by P.Jackson where he digitises and colours the old B&W films, amazing how different you look at the war when you see that film.
Thank you for watching. I have also seen Jackson's amazing film. We get used to seeing the war in silent films. Yes it was a very noisy experience and in colour for those who were there. Just seen 1917, another very good film.
Thanks Steven.. We have visited many of the WW1 battlefields and CWGraves in France in Belgium. We often walk in the rain to get a tiny tiny insight into what the conditions were. So humbling just sitting in places and reflecting on the horror that was there 1914-18. This will be on our must visit places next time we manage to get over there.. Thanks again.
Excellent, as always. You keep us in touch with your directions, maps and red arrows, otherwise I personally would get lost. Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and your spirit of respect, good work.
Steven you show me so much of the detail of the war. It is good. I will say I live in Pennsylvania USA and what are called hills in France would be called a gentle rise here. Thank you again !
Steven, I really appreciate your videos and this one in particular. I was at Vimy a month ago (and the Loos Memorial) but would have visited the area in your video had I seen it by then. It's on next year's list! The views you show and your oral descriptions are very useful. Thanks
The number of casualties is staggering..... incomprehensible.....obscene and insane. The capacity of human beings to kill each other seems to be something that we cannot stop.
Excellent video, thank you very much. What was perhaps the most stirring when i went there was seing the graves, side by side, of a father and son who died for France, one in 1915, the other one in 1940. inside the big obelisk, there are unknown soldiers from every french war of the last 200 years. 1914, 1940, Algeria, Indochina, etc. Very moving.
Thank You, Mr.Upton for your efforts and time to show us the incredible shots of the battlefields, clearly not enough views. As an American, and with respect I wonder what would Europe & Great Briton be like today if the best of those nations didn't die.
Thank you for watching. I often wonder what the USA would be like if you had stayed in the British empire and were now in the Commonwealth. It would have changed so many things including the First World War.
Thank you again for this very educational video. I find it hard to take in the scale of that French war cemetery. The loss: every grave representing a bereaved family or community. As you say, Steven, we will remember them.
Thanks for another great vid! Living so close to France, I have never ever visited a cemetery or a battlefield there, I have bin to Bastone n the early 90s when i was a small lad. When I see this , I am thinking I realy have to catch up...Thanks again! And happy hollidays (Dec 2022)
Thank-you for your short films. I have visited Verdun and Amiens. My grandfather and great uncle and a 2nd cousin fought on this ground and described it to me. I was just a child at the time and did not understand what they were describing. The topographical maps of the ground are most helpful as well as the drones eye view. Gives me an appreciation of the hell they fought through and survived and died. (My second cousin did not survive and is buried somewhere out there. I wish I could find his grave.
Thank you for watching. Have you tried the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website to trace your relatives grave? they have a very good search facility.
@@StevenUpton14-18 I hope you realize Steve that I am hitting you with the viewer's version of your succinct replies to all your viewers. These awesomew vids mean so much to alot of us, and you're so humble in your replies. I reflect that now with a huble thanks for uploading for all your videos I watch. :)
Great work that helps you understand the battlefield. It improves my understanding for my next visit to these sacred places. There is an impressive fairly new museum opposite the road leading to Lorette it is behind the old museum on the road and easily missed. Well done.
Thank you for watching. Most British and Canadians visiting this area only go to the Vimy Ridge memorial and miss out on the other side of the motorway.
Thank you Stephen, for the beautiful filming and sobering and respectful, and factual presentation style you have. I have seen a few now, and so have subscribed. Keep up your great work, as this is history not usually found on mainstream media. Happy New Year too.
You really must do some reading about WWI before making statements about the war being for nothing. That has not been the generally accepted view for many, many years. The very least we can say is that it put a (temporary, but that was the fault of the Versailles Treaty, not the war itself) end to German militarism. Have a look for example at the ultimatum Germany gave Belgium before marching into it in August 1914. The men who fought in the Allied side in the War knew what they fought for - don't demean their memory with this trite and ignorant nonsense.
Your films seem very sensitively done. Thank you. A relative of mine died as late as August 1918 in the Battle of Amiens. Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois.
Djeeezuss the scale of those names... o m g Thanks man, great video. Unbelievable what happend in that time in that place. This new movie "Im Westen nichts Neues" give a bit of a feeling how senseless this all was. No honor, just death.
Nicely done. When I visited Vimy Ridge I looked out onto the surrounding areas and wondered what had happened out there. Now I know. The death toll on all sides is staggering.
Thank you for watching. Most people that visit Vimy completely ignore this area which is just on the other side of the motorway. There is a lot to see here.
I have been there twice briefly. Went into the building with the ‘British Legion’ types standing in silence over the pit of coffins depicting the dead of WW1, WW2, Indo China and Algeria. Did not know about the ring or the preserved trenches. Thanks.
If ever I save enough money to spend a summer in England, France and Belgium.... I hope to visit and pay respect to those who fought. I believe strongly ever child should be taught about these wars and the individuals who paid a horrible price.
Thank you, I am a retired mechanic in the USA. I live well but do not have the means to travel as I would wish. You take me to places which I would visit if it were in budget. Since I have retired things have only gotten tighter. The Biden administration is causing inflation. Being frugal has been a way of life so I can handle it. I am interested in the study of Heroes. There are so many who never get spoken of. You keep faith with them. Thank you !!
Thanks Steven,great knowledge,and video,I'm planning a trip this spring to trace the steps of my grandad who survived The Great War and sadley his brother who didn't.,all your videos are very helpful.p.s. your drone flying is very good.
Thank you for watching. I presume you have researched where your GF and his brother served. I have travelled the entire Western Front, mapping every British cemetery and many features still. If you need help in finding a particular location let me know.
Yes I was given some medals,press cuttings etc off my mother and with the help of a friend have traced a lot of there movements and Georges(my grandads Brother)last few days and were he was killed,also his war grave Loos Memorial Pas De Calais.Thanks for your kind offer,were's the best source of trench maps though.
If you tell me what area and what date you want a trench map of, I may have it. I have several hundred on computer. I load them on an iPad and using GPS can see exactly where I am on the ground.
I have several maps of this area; one dated 2 Jul 18 is the closest date wise. It clearly shows Du Bois Farm. Send me your email address and I can email it to you. My email is steven@s-upton.com
Hi Steve, fantastic vids, I love first world war was tern front history, I try and go over twice a year but alas not this year, I normally tent around ypre and have taken several friends on motorcycle tours over with me, your information is increadable, thank you very much. Dusty, Norfolk.
@@StevenUpton14-18 hi Steve, good luck with your trip, my father was in the R.A.O.C (airborne ) we had two 4yr stints in Germany, one in Belefeld, when i was very young and one in Detmold 1975-80, I finished my school yrs at King's school Gutersloh, this is probably where I get my interest in war history from. What bikes are tou taking touring Steve??
@@StevenUpton14-18 wow nice bikes Steve, ive tried to get into modern stuff but they just don't do it for me, when I tour in Belgium and France im always on my most trusted bike, ...I have several. The one I take ive owned for over 3yrs, 1974 850 commando, ive altered it, tuned it and re-geared it, she can cruse at 75 fully laden with camping gear, with enough left to scoot up to 85-90 to get me out of trouble, mind you at that speed your fillings fall out and you can't see anything as your eyeballs are going round in their sockets!!!! Have a great trip mate, you sound like west country guy??? Would love to meet you one day and chat about our interests in ww1 and bikes!!! Dusty.
When you hear about the numbers of soldiers that lose there lives during World War 1the numbers are hard to comprehend. Seeing the cemetery in this video the numbers of the dead become real and are staggering.
My God that memorial really hit home for me just HOW DEVASTATING the first world war truly was!! So many names and JUST for that one area!!! My God. RIP to all of them
Thank you for watching. I have seen places where opposing trenches are within 25 yards i.e. grenade throwing range. At Le Ligne in the Voges there is a section of opposing frontline where the Germans are not only a few yards away form the French, but also about 20 feet higher up the side of a steep incline. No-mans land is at a 45 degree angle.
07:49 In the casualty list, you have an Aloïse Urbain (French) and an Alois Urban (German) the line under... We’re all the same and these two were even more...
In the painting depicting the French trying to capture the Germans in the church on the hill, the French army is wearing the uniforms of the Franco Prussian was. I wonder if this was the case. Excellent presentation,
Thank you for watching. In 1914 the French army wore red trousers. Officers often word white gloves, and standard bearers still carried the flag in infantry charges. You also have the cavalry wearing polished breast plates and helmets. After the first few months they realised the folly of it and changed to clothing more sensible.
Vimy ridge video see the craters etc on my visit I often see the complex of the ring from the motorway I think I will stop the next time I have a moment
very interesting and keep up the good work! This entire area looks so serene now and to think of an entire generation being slaughtered there for what?
Thank you for watching. Grenades played a major part in trench warfare. The British trained special 'bombing teams' to clear trenches. Whilst a German General in 1917 was concerned that the front line infantry had become so reliant on grenades for defence that they were no longer proficient with their rifles.
All because a Family Feud between Austrians and Russian aristocratic cousins, that drug the French and British into Hell. I watch with interest each small third party idiocy that may yet again drag us all into such an infamy. Thank you Steve for these reminders. Peace.
Stephen, I'd like to personally thank you for taking the time and the interest in identifying and showing these historical battlefields to all of us. I had grandfathers and great grandfathers in the Battle of the Somme and Vimy and to actually see the landscape and know the names, is an amazing thing for me. Thank you again.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you. I am learning an incredible amount about WW1. I am also crying over the boys who lost their lives...on both sides.
Thank you for watching. Through understanding the scale of human loss we can realise the stupidity of war.
May I join others in thanking you for sharing your journey back to one of those unbelievable times when a human life was only worth a yard or two of dirt. The numbers are astounding. Your videos and commentaries are very well done and professional and your narration, while uniquely regional, adds a kind of poignancy. It's as if a Tommy was reminiscing. Bravo!
Thank yo for watching and your encouraging comments.
Thank you, you bring the souls of the conflict back to life, what a great memorial to these lost men who fought here. To think they died never seeing the landscape like this and where your drone is was where the shells bursts and signals were seen by the soldiers. Such a tragic waste. Thank you once again.
Thank you for watching.
Steve amazing... your films are priceless to people who want to see and study ..Vimy is a complicated area so this helps massive...again thank you...
Thank you for watching. Most people only visit the Canadian memorial and miss out on so much more.
I have been watching you're videos for about a week now and they truly are incredible. The respect you show to the locations you visit and the men who fought the war is perfection. We should never forget those who sacrificed all in the great war which was unbelievably brutal. Thank you so much for making these and the time and effort you have put into them truly shows. Much love from the 🇬🇧
Thank you for watching and your comments.
To echo what so many others have said, thank you so much, for this and your other videos which are an invaluable companion to the books I read about the war.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for posting such an interesting video. The aerial perspective is fascinating and your explanations very clear and informative. Cheers from Canada.
Thank you for watching. I will be filming the new Canadian memorial at Hill 70 in April. I was there in December, but it was not completed.
After the war, even until today, the poor farmers were/are in danger of unexploded ordnance. I know the desmineurs are still at work.
Outstanding video Steven. Really top work.
Thank you for watching.
My Grandfather ACSM Albert Jordan (1st SA Light Infantry) fought at the Somme - more notably Delville Wood. He was awarded The Distingushed Conduct Medal (DCM). Wounded twice between 1915 and 1917 when he was repatriated to England to recover, he returned to Northern France after each occasion. These videos are so valuable. I now have a more vivid and poignent perspective of what people went through on these battlefields.
Thank you for watching. I have walked through Delville wood or as the soldiers called it 'Devil's wood'. A very peaceful place now. There is a very good visitor centre operated by the South African government there.
I lived the first 25 years of my life about a hundred meters from the sanctuary of Lorette (just in front of "le bois des boches" near the "fond de buval") ...
I remember that after the farmers plowed the fields, all I had to do was bend down to find all kinds of relics (jacket buttons, bullet casings and even shells sometimes)
Every piece of land has been inundated with the blood of these brave men ... what a waste.
I have a relative who belongs to the "Lorette guards" and who makes sure they all rest in peace. We do not forget.
Thank you for the awesome footage (and apologise for my poor english)
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This is my go to channel for first class information on where to visit whenever i visit the Battlefields of WW!
Thank you Sir
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Outstanding Public Service Steve!
Very nicely done indeed.
It is my understanding that my Grandfathers fought with the RFC & RN. Would you please consider filming the areas where some of their aerodromes were?
Thanking you in advance.
From Alaska.......
Gary
Thank you for watching. Can you give me the locations of the airfields. I am in France quite a lot and even if I do not make a film out of it I can send you the raw footage.
Steven,
thank you for posting these magnificant films incl clear explanations.
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Thanks you so much for bringing these wonderful and enjoyable videos.This history must not be forgotten. The work you do is amazing please keep your work coming. Thanks again.
Thank you for watching. I hope to post two more films next month, December.
Thank you Steve for these great video's. Dave.
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incredible videos, really gives a great impression of the terrain. thank you for creating these!
Thank you for watching. More to come in 2018.
You videos are the greatest.The drone footage enables me to really understand the lay of the land and where things happened, in a way that nothing short of going there could compare to. Even being there, you wouldn't have the view that a drone gives you.
Thank you for watching. From the ground its hard to see how the land affected the various attackers and defenders. But from the air you get a far better view to help you understand the events there.
A great job Steven, I have been researching for years and been to most of these places, you are building information and knowledge for everyone to see and understand...more please
Thank you for watching and your encouragement.
Thank you once again for these wonderful uploads showing the 1st World war battlefields and the cost to human life. I just watched "They shall not grow old, " the excellent film by P.Jackson where he digitises and colours the old B&W films, amazing how different you look at the war when you see that film.
Thank you for watching. I have also seen Jackson's amazing film. We get used to seeing the war in silent films. Yes it was a very noisy experience and in colour for those who were there.
Just seen 1917, another very good film.
Thanks Steven.. We have visited many of the WW1 battlefields and CWGraves in France in Belgium. We often walk in the rain to get a tiny tiny insight into what the conditions were. So humbling just sitting in places and reflecting on the horror that was there 1914-18. This will be on our must visit places next time we manage to get over there.. Thanks again.
Thank you for watching.
Thankyou for making these videos both informative and respectful.
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Excellent, as always. You keep us in touch with your directions, maps and red arrows, otherwise I personally would get lost. Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and your spirit of respect, good work.
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Steven you show me so much of the detail of the war. It is good. I will say I live in Pennsylvania USA and what are called hills in France would be called a gentle rise here. Thank you again !
Thank you for watching. During WW1 the slightest height advantage you could get over the opposite side was a huge advantage.
Steven, I really appreciate your videos and this one in particular. I was at Vimy a month ago (and the Loos Memorial) but would have visited the area in your video had I seen it by then. It's on next year's list! The views you show and your oral descriptions are very useful. Thanks
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I enjoy your videos Stephen and appreciate all the knowledge and history you share. I hope to see more of your videos in the future.
Thank you for watching. I hope to be able to make more in the post-Covid world.
Thanks Steve. Great work. Cheers from Australia
Thank you for watching. More to come in 2018.
Your videos should also be on mainstream television , it is so important every one who does not know understands just what happened.
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Once again excellent Steven.
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Another great video again Steve, very imformative.
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Your films are so interesting. I'm almost binge watching . Keep them coming
Thank you for watching. I will be back on the Somme next month.
Another wonderful video Steve!
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I love your work! Thank you so much!
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The number of casualties is staggering..... incomprehensible.....obscene and insane. The capacity of human beings to kill each other seems to be something that we cannot stop.
Thank you for watching.
Excellent video, thank you very much. What was perhaps the most stirring when i went there was seing the graves, side by side, of a father and son who died for France, one in 1915, the other one in 1940. inside the big obelisk, there are unknown soldiers from every french war of the last 200 years. 1914, 1940, Algeria, Indochina, etc. Very moving.
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Excellent video Steven. Bringing history to life
Thank you for watching and your comments.
Thank You, Mr.Upton for your efforts and time to show us the incredible shots of the battlefields, clearly not enough views. As an American, and with respect I wonder what would Europe & Great Briton be like today if the best of those nations didn't die.
Thank you for watching. I often wonder what the USA would be like if you had stayed in the British empire and were now in the Commonwealth. It would have changed so many things including the First World War.
Valuable historical information should never be forgotten. Excellent work Thank You.🙏✌🏻
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Amazing. Splendid job writing, narrating, editing. Lots of hard work for you and great benefit for your audience. Thank you.
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Thank you again for this very educational video. I find it hard to take in the scale of that French war cemetery. The loss: every grave representing a bereaved family or community. As you say, Steven, we will remember them.
Thank you for watching. Every cross is two graves, one each side. Plus several mass graves.
Thanks for another great vid! Living so close to France, I have never ever visited a cemetery or a battlefield there, I have bin to Bastone n the early 90s when i was a small lad. When I see this , I am thinking I realy have to catch up...Thanks again! And happy hollidays (Dec 2022)
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Your videos are addicting and incredibly informative!
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Thank-you for your short films. I have visited Verdun and Amiens. My grandfather and great uncle and a 2nd cousin fought on this ground and described it to me. I was just a child at the time and did not understand what they were describing. The topographical maps of the ground are most helpful as well as the drones eye view. Gives me an appreciation of the hell they fought through and survived and died. (My second cousin did not survive and is buried somewhere out there. I wish I could find his grave.
Thank you for watching. Have you tried the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website to trace your relatives grave? they have a very good search facility.
I did not know that. I will give a look. Thank-you.
Thanks for uploading.
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@@StevenUpton14-18 I hope you realize Steve that I am hitting you with the viewer's version of your succinct replies to all your viewers. These awesomew vids mean so much to alot of us, and you're so humble in your replies. I reflect that now with a huble thanks for uploading for all your videos I watch. :)
Excellent video Steven , thank you for sharing 👍
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Great work that helps you understand the battlefield. It improves my understanding for my next visit to these sacred places. There is an impressive fairly new museum opposite the road leading to Lorette it is behind the old museum on the road and easily missed. Well done.
Thank you for watching. Most British and Canadians visiting this area only go to the Vimy Ridge memorial and miss out on the other side of the motorway.
Total insanity. It only took 20 years to do it again. Thanks Steven for your study.
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Thank you Stephen, for the beautiful filming and sobering and respectful, and factual presentation style you have. I have seen a few now, and so have subscribed. Keep up your great work, as this is history not usually found on mainstream media. Happy New Year too.
Thank you for watching and your encouraging comments.
Thank you. By far, your best!
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I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I thank you sir!
Thank you Steven.
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Steve re watch...amazing.....many years ago i would have given anything for this level of information....i still would ....but its down to us ....
Thank you for watching. There is certainly a growing interest in WW1.
Amazing film Steve. Your dedication does you credit. Deeply moving, what was it all for we ask?. Nothing it seems today.
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You really must do some reading about WWI before making statements about the war being for nothing. That has not been the generally accepted view for many, many years. The very least we can say is that it put a (temporary, but that was the fault of the Versailles Treaty, not the war itself) end to German militarism. Have a look for example at the ultimatum Germany gave Belgium before marching into it in August 1914. The men who fought in the Allied side in the War knew what they fought for - don't demean their memory with this trite and ignorant nonsense.
I have only recently become aware of your videos. They are wonderful. Please keep up the good work. Kind Regards.
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Outstanding filming and explanation.
If ever a short film puts the loss of life into perspective it’s this.
Well done.
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Wonderful job, thank you for sharing.
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excellent & unique work, very well prepared, all my respect Mr Steve
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Your films seem very sensitively done. Thank you. A relative of mine died as late as August 1918 in the Battle of Amiens. Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois.
Thank you for watching. Sadly, an estimated 10,000 were killed on the last day of the war.
@@StevenUpton14-18 Sad indeed.
Very beautiful video and more than that, very interesting too ! 👍👍
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Thanks Steven. Very interesting.
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Great perspective from the air!
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Bellissimo video, grazie.
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Thank you. As a Canadian, superb info..
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Djeeezuss the scale of those names... o m g
Thanks man, great video. Unbelievable what happend in that time in that place.
This new movie "Im Westen nichts Neues" give a bit of a feeling how senseless this all was. No honor, just death.
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I’ve had the good fortune of walking around there, it’s incredibly moving. It’s hard to comprehend the totality of human loss.
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Nicely done. When I visited Vimy Ridge I looked out onto the surrounding areas and wondered what had happened out there. Now I know. The death toll on all sides is staggering.
Thank you for watching. Most people that visit Vimy completely ignore this area which is just on the other side of the motorway. There is a lot to see here.
as always - well done Steven
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I have been there twice briefly. Went into the building with the ‘British Legion’ types standing in silence over the pit of coffins depicting the dead of WW1, WW2, Indo China and Algeria. Did not know about the ring or the preserved trenches. Thanks.
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Very, very good and a big thank you! Keep it Up...
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If ever I save enough money to spend a summer in England, France and Belgium.... I hope to visit and pay respect to those who fought. I believe strongly ever child should be taught about these wars and the individuals who paid a horrible price.
Thank you for watching. I hope you get the opportunity to make a visit.
I find it so remarkable that opposing lines came so close !
Thank you for watching. In some places they were only a few feet apart. In others no mans land could be up to a mile wide.
Thank you, I am a retired mechanic in the USA. I live well but do not have the means to travel as I would wish. You take me to places which I would visit if it were in budget. Since I have retired things have only gotten tighter. The Biden administration is causing inflation. Being frugal has been a way of life so I can handle it. I am interested in the study of Heroes. There are so many who never get spoken of. You keep faith with them. Thank you !!
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Cool as ever Steve👍
Cheers m8😊
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Wonderful videos
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Amazing videos steve.
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Trench warfare sure leaves a mark on the land. Very interesting battlefields.
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Thanks Steven,great knowledge,and video,I'm planning a trip this spring to trace the steps of my grandad who survived The Great War and sadley his brother who didn't.,all your videos are very helpful.p.s. your drone flying is very good.
Thank you for watching. I presume you have researched where your GF and his brother served. I have travelled the entire Western Front, mapping every British cemetery and many features still. If you need help in finding a particular location let me know.
Yes I was given some medals,press cuttings etc off my mother and with the help of a friend have traced a lot of there movements and Georges(my grandads Brother)last few days and were he was killed,also his war grave Loos Memorial Pas De Calais.Thanks for your kind offer,were's the best source of trench maps though.
If you tell me what area and what date you want a trench map of, I may have it. I have several hundred on computer. I load them on an iPad and using GPS can see exactly where I am on the ground.
Steven this is what i have his last day,8th sept 1918 Bois Trench old german front line ,200 yds south east of Du Bois Farm,Richbourg.
I have several maps of this area; one dated 2 Jul 18 is the closest date wise. It clearly shows Du Bois Farm. Send me your email address and I can email it to you. My email is steven@s-upton.com
Wow. Every kid in every nation should have to visit one of these sites in life
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Hi Steve, fantastic vids, I love first world war was tern front history, I try and go over twice a year but alas not this year, I normally tent around ypre and have taken several friends on motorcycle tours over with me, your information is increadable, thank you very much. Dusty, Norfolk.
Thank you for watching. I am off to Germany end of next week for a two-week bike trip.
@@StevenUpton14-18 hi Steve, good luck with your trip, my father was in the R.A.O.C (airborne ) we had two 4yr stints in Germany, one in Belefeld, when i was very young and one in Detmold 1975-80, I finished my school yrs at King's school Gutersloh, this is probably where I get my interest in war history from. What bikes are tou taking touring Steve??
@@dustybinns1351 - I was in the RAF in Cyprus in 1975. I have a BMW K1600 for touring and a Honda CB1100 for burning petrol.
@@StevenUpton14-18 wow nice bikes Steve, ive tried to get into modern stuff but they just don't do it for me, when I tour in Belgium and France im always on my most trusted bike, ...I have several. The one I take ive owned for over 3yrs, 1974 850 commando, ive altered it, tuned it and re-geared it, she can cruse at 75 fully laden with camping gear, with enough left to scoot up to 85-90 to get me out of trouble, mind you at that speed your fillings fall out and you can't see anything as your eyeballs are going round in their sockets!!!! Have a great trip mate, you sound like west country guy??? Would love to meet you one day and chat about our interests in ww1 and bikes!!! Dusty.
@@StevenUpton14-18 35yrs. ..not 3!!!
When you hear about the numbers of soldiers that lose there lives during World War 1the numbers are hard to comprehend. Seeing the cemetery in this video the numbers of the dead become real and are staggering.
Thank you for watching. It certainly brings home the cost of war.
Your videos are pretty good ! Very interesting
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Thank YOU for the video.
My God that memorial really hit home for me just HOW DEVASTATING the first world war truly was!! So many names and JUST for that one area!!! My God. RIP to all of them
Thank you for watching. It really is quite shocking to stand there and look at so many names on a wall.
Thank you for this beautiful film... i d like to contact you in private, is it possible ? Thank you !
Just found your post 9 months late. Don’t know how I missed it as I try to answer them all. My email is steven@s-upton.com
Thank you for this beautiful film... i d like to contact you in private, is it possible ? for festival
Thank you for watching. My email address is: steven@s-upton.com
Can't believe just how close the opposing trenches were.
Thank you for watching. I have seen places where opposing trenches are within 25 yards i.e. grenade throwing range. At Le Ligne in the Voges there is a section of opposing frontline where the Germans are not only a few yards away form the French, but also about 20 feet higher up the side of a steep incline. No-mans land is at a 45 degree angle.
So hard to believe just how many years ago this was not! What's wrong with us?!
Thank you for watching. We never seem to learn that war is not the way to settle differences.
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In the casualty list, you have an Aloïse Urbain (French) and an Alois Urban (German) the line under...
We’re all the same and these two were even more...
Thank you for watching. Everyone had a family that grieved for them regardless of where they were from.
its hard to tell which is high ground or not it all appears the same
Thank you for watching. If you use a map in conjunction with the film you can see the contours. Or better still, go there!
In the painting depicting the French trying to capture the Germans in the church on the hill, the French army is wearing the uniforms of the Franco Prussian was. I wonder if this was the case. Excellent presentation,
Thank you for watching. In 1914 the French army wore red trousers. Officers often word white gloves, and standard bearers still carried the flag in infantry charges. You also have the cavalry wearing polished breast plates and helmets.
After the first few months they realised the folly of it and changed to clothing more sensible.
Good stuff 👍
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Vimy ridge video see the craters etc on my visit I often see the complex of the ring from the motorway I think I will stop the next time I have a moment
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and underneath those fields no doubt lie thousands of soldiers still
Thank you for watching. Yes, many thousands. You only have to look at the memorials to the missing to see how many just disappeared.
very interesting and keep up the good work! This entire area looks so serene now and to think of an entire generation being slaughtered there for what?
Thank you for watching. Most of these battlefields look this way. The scars of war are healing, at least on the land.
All those men and boys, close to entire generations on both sides . Beyond Sad!
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wow, if i didn't know better i'd say you're a pretty morbid guy. fortunately i do understand. thanks for the video, very touching.
Thank you for watching. Not morbid, just interested in military history.
Isn’t the lantern tower here also an ossuary - containing the remains of another 6,000 dead?
Thank you for watching. Yes, I think the tower in the main cemetery is also an ossuary.
Where grenades a major player in WW1 . i feel that would not be hard grenade throw from on trench to the other, it seems so close to one and other
Thank you for watching. Grenades played a major part in trench warfare. The British trained special 'bombing teams' to clear trenches. Whilst a German General in 1917 was concerned that the front line infantry had become so reliant on grenades for defence that they were no longer proficient with their rifles.
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So schön und so traurig.
Warum?
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Johnny Got His Gun. By Dalton Trumbo. Should be mandatory reading for every adolescent male.
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All because a Family Feud between Austrians and Russian aristocratic cousins, that drug the French and British into Hell. I watch with interest each small third party idiocy that may yet again drag us all into such an infamy. Thank you Steve for these reminders. Peace.
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