Hello Steven, thank you for another WW1 video of substance and the excellently informative use of drone footage. Although I have looked over many a map, it has not been up until I saw your drone footage that it has really sunk in just how small an area in which these major battles were fought. I have always been appalled at the huge numbers of deaths and injuries that occurred on all sides, but now having the ability to visualise the landscape concerned really makes these numbers un fathomable and pathetically unjust to those who fought here and their families.
Thank you for watching. Reading about it in a book has never satisfied me. I have always wanted to walk the ground. And now filming from above helps you to understand the landscape.
Total respect your way for video documenting WW1 Battlefields. My personal interest is in the CEF 26th New Brunswick Battalion (2nd Division, 5th Brigade) of which my grandfather was an Original member. I have been fortunate to have located some significant historic documentation ( Battalion history, individual records, War Diaries etc) having not actually visited the battlefields (I am in Canada) , I have found that the battlefield maps included in these records are of such a small scale and complexity, as to be almost unintelligible. Thank you so much for your very well produced and explained documentaries. They add so much to my understanding of those important events. Thanks so much John M. Alan, Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Thank you for watching. I got a copy of my grand father's battalion's war record and I have republished it with maps and photographs of him. Most of these records are now out of print. You may want to consider doing the same for your GF's battalion. Its one way of keeping their names alive.
Great video as always Steven! Please, please, please keep doing them if you can!! Not only are they very informative but they give an excellent view into the topography of the battlefields!
Steven Upton Mr. Upton, I would like to ask you a fiew questions for an article regarding WW1. Would you be willing to provide an email? I can send you mine first if you would like.
Thanks - this was very, very informative! With the water table being so high, I can't imagine the conditions they must have endured, when they were tunnelling 20 metres or more underground...
Thank you for watching. They would have to dig deep enough until they found a layer of a certain type (I think blue clay, but I am not certain). They could then go forward towards the other sides trenches. As the Germans were usually on higher ground it was a lot easier for the British. The Germans had to go far deeper to get lower down than the level of either the British or French trenches.
Wow. This was excellent. I live in a fairly hilly place, and it was eye-opening to realize an area so seemingly flat could be a ridge. Also, if I recall correctly from a book I read many years ago, the evening before the battle General Plummer raised a toast after supper with his staff: "Gentlemen, tomorrow we might not change history, but we will surely change geography."
Thank you for watching. Whilst in one way I can understand that the local population want to restore everything and get on with life. On the other I wish more had been preserved.
Unbelieveable when you look at the landscape now. Everything seems calm and peaceful. If you don't know anything about the war you should probably think it's a normal Belgian farmerlandscape, you should never say that 100 years ago the landscape was completely destroyed, a moonlandscape. Quite impressive how the people have built their houses again and their drainage systems.
I can only imagine the detritus of battle that it turned up every time these fields are tilled. The local farmers likely have quite the collection of ordinance.
There's a couple of things I really struggle to come to terms with. The distances and expanses of space is one. The other being the mindnumbing idea of trench warfare with thousands of lives lost for a hundred yards of mud. All warfare must be horrendous and terrifying but to know you're climbing out of a trench into a hail of machine gun fire really is too much to ask of any man.
Fantastic as always Steven. Your going to be going over one of the areas the Caterpillar that my grandfather mentioned in his journal. Looking forward to seeing your next offering. Terry&thepirates
Thank you so much for posting these amazing videos. Bringing back the History of WWl is incredible. You work is so good I enjoy all of these wonderful videos. I hope to see many more and hope you do more much more of this wonderful work. I can't thank you enough.
Amazing - always wanted to know more about this place after visiting it once in deep snow - seeing the footballs piled against the Chums Cross and walking into the wood where trenches and an old pill bok still can be seen - it a deadly quiet place where warm breath lingers among the heavily ladened branches - its hard to imagine men lived fought and died here in the bitter cold
I have visited the Caterpillar. And lochnagar at the Somme. Will check this out next time i am over. Cheers for posting. Any info as to which area, the Somme area or Ypres area will be the best place to attend for the 100th yr Commemorations in November?
Thank you for watching. I have some footage of Hill 60 and the Caterpillar, but not happy with it. I intend refilming them and all of the other surviving craters.
I love your videos! I have always been a "Map guy", so seeing the drone footage and the maps together is awesome. I wish you could draw the trench lines on the video footage somehow. That is the only thing that could make this better! Love the history most of all. Great job!
Just finished watching the brilliant Aussie movie Beneath Hill 60 about how Oliver Woodward and his small Australian regiment helped defeat the Germans with their underground mines. As others have said it's hard to believe that this quiet, unassuming town and lovely countryside was once literally akin to hell on earth. Thank you for the very interesting video Steven. Also, it's quite fittingly and coincidentally ANZAC day here in New Zealand
if you see the earth coloured smudge at 4-0-clock position at ultimo crater,there was a professional archeological dig maybe 6 -10 years ago, that just by chance I happened upon,,,,got talking to the guys doing the dig, and according to their assessment, that was the location of a Australian lewis gun position they had uncovered,,, probably dug just after the explosion of the mine in the ridge of spoil thrown up, the former German front line being behind them the position gave a excellent field of fire,,,,,, in about the 2-0-clock position, they also uncovered the remains of a German dugout, all properly filled in post dig. hope you find the info interesting
Hi Steve! very informative and a great aspect of past history. just a question, in the ash crater is that a white memorial stone i can just see ,of some sort ?
For a second, I thought the date was wrong, but it wasn’t because just by chance, exactly the same amount of mines were detonated in 1916 on July 1st and German casualties of the day were exactly the same as the deaths of the messines mines(10-12k) so I got confused.
Thank you for watching. I have filmed two of the craters on the Somme from July 1916 (see other films), and intend to film the location of more of them.
Thank you for watching. I have sets of push pins in MS Auto Route of hundreds of GPS plotted locations all along the Western Front. It helps me plan where to film next.
Steven Upton I spent a long time researching the Somme battlefields and placing markers helped. I took my 12 year old daughter with me and having a plan and a story behind each place brought it to life for her and unbelievably she absolutely loved it. She’s French, I’m American. I haven’t visited the Messines area yet, and your films have really helped and were fascinating. I really look forward to going. Thanks again.
What is seldom mentionned is that the earth and the water here are still polluted with poisonous heavy metals and chemicals like lead, arsenic, zinc and copper, just from regular shells. apart from the "red zone" around Verdun, all these fields were returned to agricultural use just a few months after the end of the war
Have you ever heard of hellfarm ? At messines my great grandad john edward holt 50841 got his military medal there saving a officer serviving with the 10th cheshires 105 years ago today nice presentation !
Thank you for watching. A week ago someone brought me some medals belonging to their great uncle asking me if I could identify them. It was a MM, 15 star, 14-18 war medal and Victory medal with a MID. A very nice MM with MID group. They had no idea what they had. We were able to trace their relative and where he is buried. I hope you have your GGF's medals in the family.
Sadly not but writing about him he was a barber and then went to war waa given 3 weeks to live and lived till he was 70 mustard gas altered his dna passed down generations
Absolutely brilliant, great aerial pictures of the British front line, northeast and east of Ploegsteert Wood. The 4th Division sappers established the trenches and wiring in no-mans land in October 1914. Really good to see the area from the air. Thank you for another excellent presentation.
Extremely compelling viewing and I'm captivated by your knowledge on this subject. Is it reasonable to assume that the mines placed under Le Pelerin (The Birdcage) that were not detonated in the Great War are still there? i.e. TONS of Amatol....
Thank you for watching. One of the mines under (I think) the birdcage went off in about 1951 when an electricity pylon above it was struck by lightening. There is still one of the Messines mines under a farm. However, mining was conducted all along the Western Front and there are dozens of unexploded charges still I the ground.
Again, Stephen really exceptional video and commentary. As a side point, I read that in the mine that exploded in 1951, a cow was killed and was therefore classed as a war casualty.
I think this is the best information channel that exists on the First World War, and I find that you have a very accurate and precise way of speaking English so that even an Italian who, like me, has only studied English at school, can perfectly understand yours explanations.
Very interesting, thank you! I really like the extra bits of history thrown in for context. That mine going off all those years later must have been quite the shock!
Thank you for watching. I do not know how deep that are. Look at the Lochnagar crater which is dry and it will give you some idea how deep these may be.
Very impressive. I thank you for so informative a video. It gives a different and clear perspective to see the distances from a video from above the ground.
Yes, I do remember. I have made a note of it. As it is very close to the motorway from Calais to Reims I do pass by there quite often. I will try to make time to film it in August. Can you message me via FB with a contact email and I can send you a link to download the raw footage.
Thank you and yes i will. We are visiting the Somme and Flanders in September this year. September 29th marks the 100th anniversary of my great great uncles death during a diversionary attack at pigeon ravine.
Yes he is. That would be great thank you. I know some of the history of the battle he fought and died in. I can message you on Facebook about the brief details.
Thank you for watching. I hope to visit the museum in Oosterbeek in August on my way to Germany - Covid permitting. My father was there in 1944 (Elste) and has friends buried in the CWGC cemetery there.
Thank you for watching. I am not a mining expert; however, the ground is not all the same, it is in layers. Dig below the top layer and the next one down was clay (I think). In that layer it is dry to tunnel.
Once again, you've given an amazing appreciation of the Western Front and what happened. My grandfather was at Gommecourt and survived. It would be nice if you have a chance to film that area. Thanks Steven.
I came across this by chance, but have to thank you. My wifes grandfather died at the birdcage, in December 1914, and we have visited the site. He was 1st Bn, Somerset Light Infantry, and a regular soldier. One of my best friends, who servered with me, became a battlefield tour guide in Ypres, and he took us to his grave, and the battlefield. A very moving experience. Once again, thank you.
This channel is amazing, the perspectives are great and it is great to see the old maps too. Thanks for uploading!
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excellent Steven. The drone gives everyone a different perspective, of what went on here. Thanks for sharing
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Your videos are amazing, thank you for making them!
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Hello Steven, thank you for another WW1 video of substance and the excellently informative use of drone footage. Although I have looked over many a map, it has not been up until I saw your drone footage that it has really sunk in just how small an area in which these major battles were fought. I have always been appalled at the huge numbers of deaths and injuries that occurred on all sides, but now having the ability to visualise the landscape concerned really makes these numbers un fathomable and pathetically unjust to those who fought here and their families.
Thank you for watching. Reading about it in a book has never satisfied me. I have always wanted to walk the ground. And now filming from above helps you to understand the landscape.
Total respect your way for video documenting WW1 Battlefields.
My personal interest is in the CEF 26th New Brunswick Battalion (2nd Division, 5th Brigade) of which my grandfather was an Original member.
I have been fortunate to have located some significant historic documentation ( Battalion history, individual records, War Diaries etc) having not actually visited the battlefields (I am in Canada) , I have found that the battlefield maps included in these records are of such a small scale and complexity, as to be almost unintelligible.
Thank you so much for your very well produced and explained documentaries. They add so much to my understanding of those important events.
Thanks so much
John M. Alan, Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Thank you for watching. I got a copy of my grand father's battalion's war record and I have republished it with maps and photographs of him.
Most of these records are now out of print. You may want to consider doing the same for your GF's battalion. Its one way of keeping their names alive.
Great video as always Steven! Please, please, please keep doing them if you can!! Not only are they very informative but they give an excellent view into the topography of the battlefields!
Thank you for watching. There will definitely be more films over the coming months.
watching now love all your videos
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Steven Upton Mr. Upton, I would like to ask you a fiew questions for an article regarding WW1. Would you be willing to provide an email? I can send you mine first if you would like.
steven@s-upton.com
Steven Upton Thank you sir, I will be in touch.
Thanks - this was very, very informative!
With the water table being so high, I can't imagine the conditions they must have endured, when they were tunnelling 20 metres or more underground...
Thank you for watching. They would have to dig deep enough until they found a layer of a certain type (I think blue clay, but I am not certain). They could then go forward towards the other sides trenches. As the Germans were usually on higher ground it was a lot easier for the British. The Germans had to go far deeper to get lower down than the level of either the British or French trenches.
Wow. This was excellent. I live in a fairly hilly place, and it was eye-opening to realize an area so seemingly flat could be a ridge. Also, if I recall correctly from a book I read many years ago, the evening before the battle General Plummer raised a toast after supper with his staff: "Gentlemen, tomorrow we might not change history, but we will surely change geography."
Thank you for watching. It’s true that from this angle it looks so flat.
Love these videos. It is sad that so much of this history is disappearing within the modern community.
Thank you for watching. Whilst in one way I can understand that the local population want to restore everything and get on with life. On the other I wish more had been preserved.
Unbelieveable when you look at the landscape now. Everything seems calm and peaceful. If you don't know anything about the war you should probably think it's a normal Belgian farmerlandscape, you should never say that 100 years ago the landscape was completely destroyed, a moonlandscape. Quite impressive how the people have built their houses again and their drainage systems.
Thank you for watching.
I can only imagine the detritus of battle that it turned up every time these fields are tilled. The local farmers likely have quite the collection of ordinance.
Thank you for watching. They call it the 'Iron Harvest.'
6:40 "oh man, that was helluva lightning strike!"
also hard to imagine the football match was actually at the busy part of the western front
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@@StevenUpton14-18 thank you for uploading :)
Informative and interesting video with fantastic aerial shots from the the drone. Well done.
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There's a couple of things I really struggle to come to terms with. The distances and expanses of space is one. The other being the mindnumbing idea of trench warfare with thousands of lives lost for a hundred yards of mud. All warfare must be horrendous and terrifying but to know you're climbing out of a trench into a hail of machine gun fire really is too much to ask of any man.
Thank you for watching. It is beyond understanding!
Thanks Steve, looking forward to the next one.
Thank you for watching.
They made a movie about this happening, it is called Hill 60.
Thank you for watching. Hill 60 is a few miles from here. It is in one of my other films.
Fantastic as always Steven.
Your going to be going over one of the areas the Caterpillar that my grandfather mentioned in his journal.
Looking forward to seeing your next offering. Terry&thepirates
Thank you for watching. I did film Hill 60 and the Caterpillar craters on this trip. I am just not happy with the footage and want to reshoot it.
Thank you so much for posting these amazing videos. Bringing back the History of WWl is incredible. You work is so good I enjoy all of these wonderful videos. I hope to see many more and hope you do more much more of this wonderful work. I can't thank you enough.
Thank you for watching. I am doing some more fuming in 10 days time, Hill 70 near Loos.
Fantastic to see this area .Thank you.
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Amazing - always wanted to know more about this place after visiting it once in deep snow - seeing the footballs piled against the Chums Cross and walking into the wood where trenches and an old pill bok still can be seen - it a deadly quiet place where warm breath lingers among the heavily ladened branches - its hard to imagine men lived fought and died here in the bitter cold
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Cheers Steve 👍 When you mentioned the football match I got a shiver down my back for some reason.......
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I have visited the Caterpillar. And lochnagar at the Somme. Will check this out next time i am over. Cheers for posting. Any info as to which area, the Somme area or Ypres area will be the best place to attend for the 100th yr Commemorations in November?
Thank you for watching. I have some footage of Hill 60 and the Caterpillar, but not happy with it. I intend refilming them and all of the other surviving craters.
Steven Upton Thanks for the reply, i am definitely going to visit some more come November.
I love your videos! I have always been a "Map guy", so seeing the drone footage and the maps together is awesome. I wish you could draw the trench lines on the video footage somehow. That is the only thing that could make this better! Love the history most of all. Great job!
Thank you for watching. I wish I could draw them on as well!
Just finished watching the brilliant Aussie movie Beneath Hill 60 about how Oliver Woodward and his small Australian regiment helped defeat the Germans with their underground mines. As others have said it's hard to believe that this quiet, unassuming town and lovely countryside was once literally akin to hell on earth. Thank you for the very interesting video Steven.
Also, it's quite fittingly and coincidentally ANZAC day here in New Zealand
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Thank you ,from vancouver b.c.
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Excellent review again steven thanks for putting in the hard work!
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Absolutely loving your films.have been to a lot of these locations and will go back again when travel is again possible.
Thank you for watching. I was due back here next month, but I have had to cancel.
So good i have to say
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if you see the earth coloured smudge at 4-0-clock position at ultimo crater,there was a professional archeological dig maybe 6 -10 years ago, that just by chance I happened upon,,,,got talking to the guys doing the dig, and according to their assessment, that was the location of a Australian lewis gun position they had uncovered,,, probably dug just after the explosion of the mine in the ridge of spoil thrown up, the former German front line being behind them the position gave a excellent field of fire,,,,,, in about the 2-0-clock position, they also uncovered the remains of a German dugout, all properly filled in post dig. hope you find the info interesting
Thank you for watching and for your information.
Hi Steve! very informative and a great aspect of past history. just a question, in the ash crater is that a white memorial stone i can just see ,of some sort ?
Thank you for watching. In answer to your question: I do not know. I did not get very close to it on foot.
For a second, I thought the date was wrong, but it wasn’t because just by chance, exactly the same amount of mines were detonated in 1916 on July 1st and German casualties of the day were exactly the same as the deaths of the messines mines(10-12k) so I got confused.
Thank you for watching. I have filmed two of the craters on the Somme from July 1916 (see other films), and intend to film the location of more of them.
Drone footage with explanations of locations is really informative. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Its Flemish region so its called - Mesen pronounced mayzen, Messines is French.
Thank you for this clarification.
you make excellent videos Sir...Cheers to ya
Thank you for watching and your feedback. Just working on the next one.
Just fantastic. Really well done. I followed along with apple maps placing markers and descriptions at each point for a future visit. Thank you.
Thank you for watching. I have sets of push pins in MS Auto Route of hundreds of GPS plotted locations all along the Western Front. It helps me plan where to film next.
Steven Upton I spent a long time researching the Somme battlefields and placing markers helped. I took my 12 year old daughter with me and having a plan and a story behind each place brought it to life for her and unbelievably she absolutely loved it. She’s French, I’m American. I haven’t visited the Messines area yet, and your films have really helped and were fascinating. I really look forward to going. Thanks again.
@@gustavvader2207- I hope you get chance to visit this area.
What is seldom mentionned is that the earth and the water here are still polluted with poisonous heavy metals and chemicals like lead, arsenic, zinc and copper, just from regular shells.
apart from the "red zone" around Verdun, all these fields were returned to agricultural use just a few months after the end of the war
Thank you for watching.
Excellent presentation. You have to wonder, How, and what effort, was done to return the fields from the devastation that occurred.
Thank you for watching. There are 200+ villages that were never rebuilt.
how did they not build a soccer pitch on the spot of the Christmas truce soccer match? there should be a yearly tournament held there.
Thank you for watching. Good thought and I agree. you could ask the British and German armies to provide teams. I am sure they would do it.
Has anyone been inside of these craters now that they've filled with water or is there hazardous chemicals preventing it?
Thank you for watching. I am not aware of anyone going in them. If there was hazardous chemicals there would be notices and a fence preventing access.
very intressting video!! perfect thumps up !!!
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Have you ever heard of hellfarm ? At messines my great grandad john edward holt 50841 got his military medal there saving a officer serviving with the 10th cheshires 105 years ago today nice presentation !
Thank you for watching. A week ago someone brought me some medals belonging to their great uncle asking me if I could identify them. It was a MM, 15 star, 14-18 war medal and Victory medal with a MID. A very nice MM with MID group. They had no idea what they had. We were able to trace their relative and where he is buried. I hope you have your GGF's medals in the family.
Sadly not but writing about him he was a barber and then went to war waa given 3 weeks to live and lived till he was 70 mustard gas altered his dna passed down generations
Excuse me but because of the British "axe scent" I cannot understand what is said at 6:57. Can someone help please?
Thank you for watching. 'Accent?' I am British it is everyone else who has an accent!
Fine Steven, but what are your words just after 6:57?
Well explained! It’s not Ploegstreet but Ploegsteert btw … ‘steert’ is dialect for ‘tail’
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Absolutely brilliant, great aerial pictures of the British front line, northeast and east of Ploegsteert Wood. The 4th Division sappers established the trenches and wiring in no-mans land in October 1914. Really good to see the area from the air. Thank you for another excellent presentation.
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good movie
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Silly question but can you fish them ?
Sorry, I have no idea.
Are there still explosives buried under the birdcage, like those which went off after the lighting strike?
Thank you for watching. I do not know if there are any under the 'Birdcage', but there is a complete mine under a farm a couple of miles away.
@@StevenUpton14-18 damn, that's scary. Thanks for the answer (and interesting vids!)
what a story about electric pole built on top of pile of explosives, in which the lightning struck and caused detonation
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@@StevenUpton14-18 just watched 2020 movie The War Below and googled my way here
I wonder if you can fish that crater? 🎣
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What about the explosives left?
Thank you for watching. Thousands of tons of explosives are still in the ground.
Extremely compelling viewing and I'm captivated by your knowledge on this subject. Is it reasonable to assume that the mines placed under Le Pelerin (The Birdcage) that were not detonated in the Great War are still there? i.e. TONS of Amatol....
Thank you for watching. One of the mines under (I think) the birdcage went off in about 1951 when an electricity pylon above it was struck by lightening.
There is still one of the Messines mines under a farm. However, mining was conducted all along the Western Front and there are dozens of unexploded charges still I the ground.
Yet another fantastic video
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iimmagine fishing and eating the fish out of those ponds.
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Still surprised they filled in all the damage
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So any of the mine entrance survive?
Thank you for watching. They were mostly filled in prior to detonation to stop the blast coming back.
Again, Stephen really exceptional video and commentary. As a side point, I read that in the mine that exploded in 1951, a cow was killed and was therefore classed as a war casualty.
Thank you for watching. I did not know about the cow.
I think this is the best information channel that exists on the First World War, and I find that you have a very accurate and precise way of speaking English so that even an Italian who, like me, has only studied English at school, can perfectly understand yours explanations.
Thank you for watching.
Wow ...that was an amazing and thought provoking video .. one of the best for information... the drone is epic.. well done
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Very interesting, thank you! I really like the extra bits of history thrown in for context. That mine going off all those years later must have been quite the shock!
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Are these ponds 20-25 meters deep ?
Thank you for watching. I do not know how deep that are. Look at the Lochnagar crater which is dry and it will give you some idea how deep these may be.
Very impressive. I thank you for so informative a video. It gives a different and clear perspective to see the distances from a video from above the ground.
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I never miss an episode!
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I find your videos very interesting. I hope there is plenty more to come.
Thank you for watching. There will be more. However, I am almost out of footage from my last trip. Next opportunity to film may be August.
I don't know if you remember, i contacted you on Facebook in regards to Pigeon ravine cemetery? Would be lovely if you could do a fly over that area.
Yes, I do remember. I have made a note of it. As it is very close to the motorway from Calais to Reims I do pass by there quite often.
I will try to make time to film it in August. Can you message me via FB with a contact email and I can send you a link to download the raw footage.
Thank you and yes i will. We are visiting the Somme and Flanders in September this year. September 29th marks the 100th anniversary of my great great uncles death during a diversionary attack at pigeon ravine.
Yes he is. That would be great thank you. I know some of the history of the battle he fought and died in. I can message you on Facebook about the brief details.
Very well made sir.
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Excellent footage! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you for watching. I hope to visit the museum in Oosterbeek in August on my way to Germany - Covid permitting. My father was there in 1944 (Elste) and has friends buried in the CWGC cemetery there.
how could they dig when the waterline is so close to the surface?
Thank you for watching. I am not a mining expert; however, the ground is not all the same, it is in layers. Dig below the top layer and the next one down was clay (I think). In that layer it is dry to tunnel.
@@StevenUpton14-18 thanks great video
Great video.
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Superb, as usual.
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It's amazing how they were able to plant the mines.
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Thankyou very much
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Very interesting
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Very interesting, love all your videos
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Once again, you've given an amazing appreciation of the Western Front and what happened. My grandfather was at Gommecourt and survived. It would be nice if you have a chance to film that area. Thanks Steven.
Thank you for watching. I have been in the Gommecourt area, but not filmed it. Just a question of time.
I came across this by chance, but have to thank you. My wifes grandfather died at the birdcage, in December 1914, and we have visited the site. He was 1st Bn, Somerset Light Infantry, and a regular soldier. One of my best friends, who servered with me, became a battlefield tour guide in Ypres, and he took us to his grave, and the battlefield. A very moving experience. Once again, thank you.
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There are no words what you did for us. From Belgium close to Ypres /Last post🎺🎶
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