My Great Grandfather Murdo , Pipe Major Scotts Guards veteran of Sudan, The Boer war, then 1916 France was the end of his life, aged 54. Taught the Royal family Scottish dancing and sat for Londons artists, a Highlander from north of the Great Glen, who belonged to a world that no longer exists today. Extraordinary.
My Grandad was just a Navy stoker in the engine rooms during WW1. A helper was required for a job and , as the youngest, Grandad was sent. Turned out all he had to do was pose for an artist for a couple of hours. Best job I had that war he always laughed.
@ Dear Luke, your grandad wasn’t just a stoker, without men like him the ships could not have sail and they would have been unable to carry out their crucial role.The stokers worked phenomenally hard and stayed at their station while their ships were under the heaviest bombardment of the enemy. They were all gentlemen of valour and shall be remembered for ever in the valour of the senior service, which kept this country safe in the most perilous days of our long history, and ensured food and supplies reached our island. We shall always salute their memory.
"The Road to Mandalay" is a nostalgic poem about his time in the Far East, written when he was returning from 7 years in India via Burma. Kipling claimed that when in Moulmein, he had paid no attention to the Great Pagoda his poem later made famous, because he was so struck by a Burmese beauty on the steps. He wrote at the time "I love the Burman with the blind favouritism born of first impression. When I die I will be a Burman … and I will always walk about with a pretty almond-coloured girl who shall laugh and jest too, as a young maiden ought." Very broad-minded for 1890.
@@robinclarke9978 “…there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!” Those are not the words of a racist or bigot.
@@taggartlawfirm I pay no attention to fashionable labels. They come and go with whatever people feel they need to say for attention. Their opinions held as fast as the next screen that captivates them. The fashionable can call Kipling what they like. Won't change our opinion of him one iota.
Gordon did as he was ordered, but he knew it was headed south . He requested aid but parliament dither so long , it was no use and by the time aid was sent , all was lost .
Kipling was a hero to my Grandfather who served up on the northwest frontier in India and I intern took a book of Kipling poems with me to Iraq when it was my turn to go with the colours, never forget your heroes, no matter what the politicians and the papers say about them, because Kipling wrote everything you need to know about them as well!
Yes and isnt the world a far sadder and badder place without it. British Imperialism bought an end to slavery, bought justice and order to half the world, kept bloody tyrants and despots out. Since and end of it, its all been down hill with mad bloody dictators murdering and robbing left and right. Africa is been robbed and plundered by experts, ruthless Tyrants who pay the Presidents money in Swiss bank accounts and treat the poor like garbage. The world was going forward for two hundred years and now its stuffed and going back wards, slavery is back, tyrants and dictators are back, there is no world order anymore, the yanks are hopless at it. The British Empire may not have been perfect, but it knew right from wrong and always did its best to ensure at least half a shake for the people it ruled.
Well written.
Well delivered.
Well said.
WELL STATED ,
This orator is top notch.
My Great Grandfather Murdo , Pipe Major Scotts Guards veteran of Sudan, The Boer war, then 1916 France was the end of his life, aged 54. Taught the Royal family Scottish dancing and sat for Londons artists, a Highlander from north of the Great Glen, who belonged to a world that no longer exists today. Extraordinary.
God rest him. The world still exists it’s just been blinkered
My Grandad was just a Navy stoker in the engine rooms during WW1. A helper was required for a job and , as the youngest, Grandad was sent. Turned out all he had to do was pose for an artist for a couple of hours. Best job I had that war he always laughed.
@ Dear Luke, your grandad wasn’t just a stoker, without men like him the ships could not have sail and they would have been unable to carry out their crucial role.The stokers worked phenomenally hard and stayed at their station while their ships were under the heaviest bombardment of the enemy. They were all gentlemen of valour and shall be remembered for ever in the valour of the senior service, which kept this country safe in the most perilous days of our long history, and ensured food and supplies reached our island. We shall always salute their memory.
@@davidgray3321 Thanks
That 'Colonial Past' civilized much of the world through both war and peace
Not true, but keep coping
Every country has invaded and been invaded
It was civilised once, now returned to nature
Kipling has never been more relevant from his time till today
That great military historian Corporal Jones spoke of them when he said ; They don't like it up 'em, them fuzzy wuzzies.
fuzzy wuzzy ...the legends Sudanese Warriors from beja tribe
I thought he was talking about Ale. The Man Who Would Be King, If...
Kipling was one of the best English poets. He's not well regarded due to the colonial past. He only had the best intentions for India and it's people.
Nonsense. He was a tool of British imperialism, which destroyed India and impoverished it for centuries.
"The Road to Mandalay" is a nostalgic poem about his time in the Far East, written when he was returning from 7 years in India via Burma. Kipling claimed that when in Moulmein, he had paid no attention to the Great Pagoda his poem later made famous, because he was so struck by a Burmese beauty on the steps. He wrote at the time "I love the Burman with the blind favouritism born of first impression. When I die I will be a Burman … and I will always walk about with a pretty almond-coloured girl who shall laugh and jest too, as a young maiden ought." Very broad-minded for 1890.
@@robinclarke9978 “…there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!”
Those are not the words of a racist or bigot.
@@taggartlawfirm I pay no attention to fashionable labels. They come and go with whatever people feel they need to say for attention. Their opinions held as fast as the next screen that captivates them.
The fashionable can call Kipling what they like. Won't change our opinion of him one iota.
Gunga Din. The Ballad of East And West. Oonts. The Young British Soldier. Danny Deever.
Top notch . I agree ..pity it is not full version ..I maybe wrong . suffice to say loved it.
Gordon at Khartoum. He learned, too late...
Gordon did as he was ordered, but he knew it was headed south . He requested aid but parliament dither so long , it was no use and by the time aid was sent , all was lost .
Evidently they don't like it up em.
Looked for this. 👍
Don’t tell them your name Pike
Same@@a.y.t.a.s.494
I really identify with Kipling 'ere.
I, too, suffer from a fear of the letter "H".
Was waiting for the bit....they don't like it up em........🤣
broud to be a fuzzy wuzzy girl
and they did what the French could never do...not Austria or Russia...they broke the Square
I guess the fuzzy wuzzys will have the ladt laugh.
Kipling is well known for his cakes and novels and poems . If, being the best.
He was an exceedingly good poet.
Kipling was a hero to my Grandfather who served up on the northwest frontier in India and I intern took a book of Kipling poems with me to Iraq when it was my turn to go with the colours, never forget your heroes, no matter what the politicians and the papers say about them, because Kipling wrote everything you need to know about them as well!
My house is named wuzzy
They don't like it up 'em
British bloody imperialism via Kipling was of its time.
Yes and isnt the world a far sadder and badder place without it. British Imperialism bought an end to slavery, bought justice and order to half the world, kept bloody tyrants and despots out. Since and end of it, its all been down hill with mad bloody dictators murdering and robbing left and right. Africa is been robbed and plundered by experts, ruthless Tyrants who pay the Presidents money in Swiss bank accounts and treat the poor like garbage. The world was going forward for two hundred years and now its stuffed and going back wards, slavery is back, tyrants and dictators are back, there is no world order anymore, the yanks are hopless at it. The British Empire may not have been perfect, but it knew right from wrong and always did its best to ensure at least half a shake for the people it ruled.
white people are fucked up...
Jealousy
Why do you say that?
All PEOPLE are Fucked Up!
Yeah why would you say that? Aside from being a generalizing racist bigot. Of course that’s just my guess.
Not this "white man". I'm quite sane and nice...You've been slumming, my dear. Get out of the gutter.
They don't like it up 'em