WW1 was far from being about freedom. It was the political assassination of Franz Ferdinand that started an upheaval of posturing and nationalism. It arguably stopped because everyone was done killing each other. WW2 was about freedom though..
Agree totally. It puts the human cost of war on display. I wish those stupid American elites would quit saying " there is no negotiating with Russia" as hundreds of thoussnd young men are dying ag as in Europe. Maybe if the sons and saughters of America's privileged class had to fight, the tone would move to ending the war.
Since watching this very moving and emotional scene I never moan now about getting old , those men in ww1 and 2 never got to grow old they gave their today for our tomorrow , god bless them all ❤
@@bich-nganguyen5232 @Every generation says and thinks that of the next, and to be frank, the men go the lost and greatest were one of a kind. Men cut from the Victorian tradition thrown into modern combat. They grew up on the idea of self sacrifice and honor, and they threw their lives not because they were trying to secure a better position for themself, or for their country, but because they were, as the song above suggests, here. I think that if ever in my lifetime should the call to arms should be raised, and the greatest threats to our ways of life are raised, we may see the laziest of people shirk duty. But there are those who will receive this call and go forth into hell, because they’re here Look at Ukraine in ‘22. There were videos of 18 year olds being drafted and going into the trenches for their country when the time came. It isn’t every day you see people going out and dying like they did. It takes that darkest hour to bring out the people who possess that heart of oak, and soul of steel
My grandfather fought in the Australian 1st field artillery at Proyart in the Somme valley. Awarded the Military Medal. For conspicuous gallantry under extremely heavy machine gun and cannon fire. RIP the 60,000 Australian volunteers that gave their lives for England. In a war that had nothing to do with them on the other side of the world.
The last sentance just isnt true unless you also consider that all "English" servicemen that gave their lives to help found and secure your country shouldnt have done so. Prehaps you just wanted to be left alone to murder aboriginal in peace. World politics os more complex than that and you sound like a taker not a giver or even an equal participant. Hope you have a happy Christmas in a free land that many worked to secure.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Lest We Forget🌹❤️
The sacrifice of many makes are freedom what it is today let's keep this precious gift of hope in are hearts forever till the end of time and until the new beginning..
@@timcahill4676 Not really the fault of the men though. Britain also had some great wins against all odds in WW2. The Battle of Britain probably being the standout.
so crazy to think it was over 100 years ago now. nobody who experienced this war is alive anymore only a matter of time until the same can be said with WW2
Honor them always !!! they gave their lives for you. Bless them all. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them. The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon.
Ironic, they can't wear the bayonet and scabbard (not even a fake one) on their belt due to strict UK knife laws. But carry the entrenching tool, sometime in their hands as they wander around the town. The entrenching tool was of course a better hand to hand weapon for up close killing.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. from "for the fallen" by Laurence Binyon
Imagine that happening today, all those anti everything and every body would be complaining to Khan to stop it, as a Military Veteran of 15 years service this brought the hairs on the back of my neck up
It's what the British soldiers sang on the Western Front during World War One. It was part of how they dealt with living, fighting, and dying in the Trenches.
Actually not Really it wasn't it was a Very Brave Small British Army that actually STOPPED The German Advance at Mons Check it out After that It was for sometime A Mirror Image of The Boer War(both of them)The Prussian/French 1970 The American Civil War Just Exactly As The Coming War will be
How about we remember the millions upon millions of British who died in the great war. The biggest non-British contributor to the war was India and they still lost less men than Australia and New Zealand ANZAC forces despite the major population difference. Non-British contribution to Britain was minuscule and definitely not out of voluntary love for the Empire and it's people, all of whom were were of British stock.
They were allowed to serve, just like Indians and Asians from Other British colonies. They just wore different uniforms and were in seperated regiments back then.
with the yell at the end you can only imagine how loud they are in battle yelling while charging the guns
You wouldn't have heard them above the exploding shells and machine gun and rifle fire.
They would not have yelled while on the attack
This is spine-chilling. God bless the soldiers who gave us our freedom. My eternal gratitude
Respect for all the young soldiers who fought in the grate war but WW1 and the Somme had nothing to do with "freedom".
WW1 was far from being about freedom. It was the political assassination of Franz Ferdinand that started an upheaval of posturing and nationalism. It arguably stopped because everyone was done killing each other. WW2 was about freedom though..
@@addicted2tone349 ww2 wasn't much different.
freedom is rhetoric.
@@husa0190 I think he's just talking about soldiers in general who fought to protect their nations
Agree totally. It puts the human cost of war on display. I wish those stupid American elites would quit saying " there is no negotiating with Russia" as hundreds of thoussnd young men are dying ag as in Europe. Maybe if the sons and saughters of America's privileged class had to fight, the tone would move to ending the war.
Wow it's like the spirits are singing from heaven
How is it like that?
@@cacambo589 because we're here
They are ment to be spirts of K.I.A soldiers that died at the battle of the somme
Since watching this very moving and emotional scene I never moan now about getting old , those men in ww1 and 2 never got to grow old they gave their today for our tomorrow , god bless them all ❤
They represent a generation, the like of which, we will never see again.
Not this generation, who take everything for free, for granted. So sad.
@@bich-nganguyen5232 nonsense
@@bich-nganguyen5232 @Every generation says and thinks that of the next, and to be frank, the men go the lost and greatest were one of a kind. Men cut from the Victorian tradition thrown into modern combat. They grew up on the idea of self sacrifice and honor, and they threw their lives not because they were trying to secure a better position for themself, or for their country, but because they were, as the song above suggests, here.
I think that if ever in my lifetime should the call to arms should be raised, and the greatest threats to our ways of life are raised, we may see the laziest of people shirk duty. But there are those who will receive this call and go forth into hell, because they’re here
Look at Ukraine in ‘22. There were videos of 18 year olds being drafted and going into the trenches for their country when the time came. It isn’t every day you see people going out and dying like they did. It takes that darkest hour to bring out the people who possess that heart of oak, and soul of steel
Hopefully, we never have to.
I am soo proud of ALL these brave souls whom they represent!
My grandfather fought in the Australian 1st field artillery at Proyart in the Somme valley. Awarded the Military Medal. For conspicuous gallantry under extremely heavy machine gun and cannon fire. RIP the 60,000 Australian volunteers that gave their lives for England. In a war that had nothing to do with them on the other side of the world.
No more brother wars
The last sentance just isnt true unless you also consider that all "English" servicemen that gave their lives to help found and secure your country shouldnt have done so. Prehaps you just wanted to be left alone to murder aboriginal in peace. World politics os more complex than that and you sound like a taker not a giver or even an equal participant. Hope you have a happy Christmas in a free land that many worked to secure.
If the Kaiser invades England,England would have to rely on its Empire for help
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lest We Forget🌹❤️
A haunting poem about the horrors of the Western Front
Very moving indeed.
The sacrifice of many makes are freedom what it is today let's keep this precious gift of hope in are hearts forever till the end of time and until the new beginning..
rhetorics
Saying they died for freedom... You know very little of WWI, eh?
The British soldiers of WW1, WW2 and the Korean War were by far the best fighting men the nation had ever seen.
Chaps at Agincourt would disagree
@@jamestodd1104The term “Lions led by donkeys” was well before WW1 also.
Crecy? Jenkin's Ear? Bechuanaland?
Tbh not ww2 really. France 1940, Singapore, initially in Burma were all disasters
@@timcahill4676 Not really the fault of the men though. Britain also had some great wins against all odds in WW2. The Battle of Britain probably being the standout.
this is nothing to do with flags, countries or ideology. this is about courage and chivalry
Azuadee Azmin no nothing but this is written on humanities like a contract with the universe.
Wrong. This is to commemorate soldiers of the British Empire fighting in the name of their flag and their country at the battle of the Somme
Pretty sure ww1 killed any notion of war being chivalrous
It's about the unimaginable hell and the condoned slaughter of hundreds of thousands of young lives. And the complete uselesness of it all.
Chivalry died at Agincourt
Just across a few generations, those voices can almost still be heard in the air.
John Green brought me here.
same
mddupont sameee 😂😂😂😂😂
same
+ We're here because we're here
DFTBA Y'ALL
Beautiful.
What a poignant moment of the memory of so many young men lost in the battle of the Somme.
Lest we forget.
My great grandfather was a Grenedier Guard and is burried in Flounders alongside so many brave souls
WE REMEMBER THEM 😔😔🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@mrnobody1067 LEST WE FORGET.
so crazy to think it was over 100 years ago now. nobody who experienced this war is alive anymore
only a matter of time until the same can be said with WW2
this comment hits different
Honor them always !!! they gave their lives for you. Bless them all.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them. The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon.
im crying
Ironic, they can't wear the bayonet and scabbard (not even a fake one) on their belt due to strict UK knife laws. But carry the entrenching tool, sometime in their hands as they wander around the town. The entrenching tool was of course a better hand to hand weapon for up close killing.
They can't have weblys (CORRECT MY SPELLING) or Lee Enfields because they are weapons
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.”
Very dramatic, poignant and moving, as well as shocking.
Arthur Ridley bought me here.
Hey, anyone know the name of the original tune or melody?
No sorry, but you can google it if you want. "We're here because we're here melody" or smt
Never mind! I found it! It's Auld Lang Syne
@@thug2217 was gunna say you can tell that by how they were singing, but you found it
This fucking sends shivers
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
from "for the fallen" by Laurence Binyon
How has this had so little attention
mY GREAT UNCLE DIED AT THE Somme--------------l/cpl Thomas Baird
RIP, Sir Thomas Baird! Thank you for your service!
I like the video
Men, Soilders, we're here because we're here
Ölmeden mezara koydular beni, ooof, gençliğim eyvah...
Imagine that happening today, all those anti everything and every body would be complaining to Khan to stop it, as a Military Veteran of 15 years service this brought the hairs on the back of my neck up
How to find this song?
July 1st, 1916, The first battle of the Somme.
dang, imagine this but in the trenches, when the british are ready to charge at the german trenches, then the charge commences once they shout
Is sad they will be lost in time
I don´t get it. "We are here because we are here?!"
It's what the British soldiers sang on the Western Front during World War One. It was part of how they dealt with living, fighting, and dying in the Trenches.
lions led by donkeys
James Reidtabo nice cliché you got yourself there
Actually not Really it wasn't it was a Very Brave Small British Army that actually STOPPED The German Advance at Mons Check it out After that It was for sometime A Mirror Image of The Boer War(both of them)The Prussian/French 1970 The American Civil War Just Exactly As The Coming War will be
@@gopr3117 It was often true, especially at the Somme.
Thats insulting to donkeys
@@bryansmith1920 Mons was a defeat
great sight now go arrest tony blair
It’s all fun in games until they fade slowly when singing
I see some black men in there, but blacks weren't allowed to serve in the Army back then and if they did it was in segregated units in support roles.
Yes they need to be politically correct and rewrite history.
How about we remember the millions upon millions of British who died in the great war. The biggest non-British contributor to the war was India and they still lost less men than Australia and New Zealand ANZAC forces despite the major population difference. Non-British contribution to Britain was minuscule and definitely not out of voluntary love for the Empire and it's people, all of whom were were of British stock.
The point is not to recreate, the point is not to forget
They were allowed to serve, just like Indians and Asians from Other British colonies. They just wore different uniforms and were in seperated regiments back then.
@@MofOptics indeed