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My Great uncle Thomas Wilfred Hancock 12/1763, Y&L 13th Btn (1st Barnsley Pals) KIA 1st July 1916. His body was never recovered. Visited Saturday 22nd June 24 and laid a wreath.

I have over 100 books in relation directly to The Somme. I would only recommend 3

RAMC- Rob All My Comrades

Being a Liverpool girl I have a great affinity for Noel Chavasse. In fact his monument is not far from my work place. I try to go every 4th August with a little floral tribute. He was a great humanitarian. And I feel privileged to have visited his grave a number of times. Lest we forget.

A great podcast Paul. Thanks.

My great uncle Timothy Brennan from Newfoundland was killed here on October 1, 1916.

Canada Newfoundland Regiment 1915 Gallipoli War 🇨🇦

ANZACS one of the best just watching again. There is a quite a new one ANZAC girls about nurses. Well worth a watch.

This monument looks really satanic.

Thank you for this podcast. My friend's great uncle, James Edmondson, is buried at ADANAC cemetery. He was 20 when he was killed just off the D147 road at a tiny wood called Willow Patch in 1916.

This is a song I wrote about the first British soldier to be executed for desertion, Thomas James Highgate, at the age of 19… ua-cam.com/video/ObLZugL1OFc/v-deo.htmlsi=QCma2X4zKolDy2a5

Challenge the world with heart We can feed the world, we can start To believe we can stop the power hungry We can fight disease, we're not just cogs in a machine We are human, we can think There's too much at stake, we cannot blink Challenge the world with heart We may have differences, but together we can chart A new course, change our fate Leaders should listen, it's not too late Challenge the world with heart Let's take a stand, let's make a start For a better world, for a brighter tomorrow Together we can overcome the sorrow Challenge the world with heart We have the power, we can play our part To heal the wounds, to bridge the divide With love and compassion, let's turn the tide Challenge the world with heart It's within our grasp, it's time to start.

Great presentation Paul - learnt a lot…..

Always fascinating, Paul. Thank you!

In 2018, I went to a ww1 themed dinner at Mexborough; the hostess cooked a version of Maconochie, which I have to say was delicious. We ate out in the garden (decorated with flags and posters); the corner was fenced off, with a notice that read 'Danger - Unexploded Bomb'!

It’s very sobering and sad to think about those men. My great grandfather survived despite being wounded at least twice, part of the 7th RIF 16th Division. He enlisted at 37 years with 7 children. Can u imagine. My great uncle was killed at Fampoux Fr on 11 April 1917, as part of the suicidal attack by the 10th BDE, 4th Infantry Division. The 1st BN RIF got wiped out along with the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders in a broad daylight attack across 1500 yards of flat, open ground, and they got murdered by 32 machine guns, artillery, and infantry. It was murder. So sad. So many lost for pointless attrition attacks. He was missing for almost 30 years until he and two others were found during a housing development dig. His poor mother and father died never knowing where he was. Luckily he was found, and reburied with the other two found with him in Terlinchtun Cemetery near Boulogne Sur Mer.

My great uncle was killed in action in July 10 1917 his body was never found.

I know the Topliss's are thought to be "conjecturely descended" from the Percy family, the Duke of Northumberland. And Percy Toplis's name reinforces that link in my eyes. And I have a friend from university whose name was Parry. So there was a kind of reconciliation between Parry and Toplis in another life, I like to think 😊

I must share an ancestor with Percy Toplis

I find it disheartening to listen to videos of the battle of the some and realise that there is no mention of the newfoundland regiment at all. Why did our little nation sacrifice so much for so little to the point that their sacrifice never warrents a mention? Not in this video or any other.

When i was a kid, we were surrounded by ww1 veterans. And they all disappeared. I remember the last of them, those tough old birds that made it to a century. Its kind of sad that we are once again seeing the fading out of a generation of great veterans, with the last of them, once again, those wonders of nature able to hit 100. My family members among those veterans - which was all of them on the male side - are long gone. The world seems very different to how it was but a lot of people dont seem to have learned much from two world wars. Ps one of my great uncles was in the RNAS in ww1. His metal badges, which we still have, all have an armoured car on them, including one with ‘1907’ on it (the 1907 is on a rectangular piece of metal with a fastening pin on the back, connected to a medallion with the RNAS armoured car emblem by a two or three link metal chain). He passed away long before i was born and ive never been able to figure out exactly what he did or where he was during ww1. All i know is that he was a gifted mechanic and either a regular or a territorial in 1914 and, after losing a bunch of fingers somehow, he was discharged sometime in 1918, possibly after serving time for striking an officer. He has the same trio of medals, including the 1914 version of the 1914-15 star, as my great grandfather had (my great grandfather was a royal engineer, as was my grandfather and my father). My great uncle’s service in the RNAS has always been a mystery to my dad and I. What we do know is he never had anything to do with planes.

Great video…. Visited the museum at Hooge during a stay in Ypres not long ago, & it was excellent, second only in the area probably to the one at Passchendaele. Incredible places to visit in the immediate area, always interesting things to learn about this war so really enjoyed this video👌 Sub’d too, look forward to watching some more of your travels…

Just finished my trip to the Somme, Vimy, Ypres

One of the 5(-6 ) caribous is in the town were I was born Kortrijk, so I've known it forever. I always found it a most impressive memorial but only understood why it was there later on... A pity schools didn't go into the subject more and explained what it stands for.... Thankfully technology has moved on and we can now learn about so many things thanks to people like yourself that don't keep their knowledge to themselves but put time and effort into sharing it all in great podcasts and vlogs 👍🏼

The underground war on the Western Front is utterly fascinating. Thanks for explaining the origins of the British side.

Excellent video Paul.My Great Grandfather Richard Ireland,Kings Liverpool Regiment is buried there.Myself and other younger family members have visited several times over the years,

My Great Uncle was killed in action there on the first day of the campaign Sept 26th. He was in the 80th Division 320th Infantry Company E from Pennsylvania.

Thouroughly outstanding podcast.

Good morning Paul. Further to your Q & A Number 5 and the Regimental Memorial to The Q.O.R.W.K.Regiment at Trertre, St Ghislain Belgium. I know that you said that you had last visited this Memorial in March 2024. Did you also visit one of the earliest Private Memorials situated on one of the Pillars in front of the Old Marie at St Ghislain in honour to Major Charles Stewart Holland 120th Battery R.F.A. KIA by a German Sniper while Commanding his Battery on the 23rd of August 1914. Long before The Council of St Ghislain held Commemorations Ceremonies at the R,W,K, Memorial, they traditionally held one in front of Major Holland`s in the centre of St Ghislain. There is a famous picture of Major Holland riding his Battery through the Town Centre on his was to his fateful encounter with the 12th Brandenburg Grenadiers right at the beginning of this Great Conflict. { A Pen & Sword Book } He was 38 years old. Now on the nearest Sunday to the 23rd of August each year or on a Sunday which marks the day and date of this action, there is now a double Commemoration, first at Tertre and then in front of Major Hollands Private Memorial in St Ghislain. A few years ago it was my honour to give the Council a Flag which can be flown in his honour each year. This I hope adds a little by way of remembering this Gallant Officer and his sacrifice which was then multiplied by millions of others who paid the ultimate price in the years that followed.

Thanks for the reference to "To serve them all my days", never heard of that one before.

Talking of new books: I've just bought 3 beautiful volumes of "Dvēseļu Putenis" by Aleksandrs Grīns. Hardbacks 1957. No English translation, however, with google lens you can read these amazing foreign diaries, memoirs and novels now. Giving us a greater depth of knowledge of those tumultuous times.

You've prompted me to dig out my old hardback copy of Tony's "The Anatomy of a Raid". I remember that sent me down the rabbit hole of the red cross missing files. There I found many poignant, articulate letters from mother's to the authorities. It amazed me, how these mother's felt there requests for information, or requests for missing items of their sons were almost a hindrance to the authorities, and they didn't want to come across as getting in the way of more important war work. Truly a remarkable generation, and of which your valuable life's committment to their remembrance is worthy of applause Paul. 👏

We visited in 2018. Like all American cemeteries, it was amazing. I think my favorite was Saint Mihiel American Cemetery an hour or two away.

I thought it was pronounced EE -Per , RAH

Lots of debate about what the casualty figure actually means but yes they were effectively wiped out. The vibrations of that attack ripped through Newfoundland for years to come.

RIP, my fellow islands, especially Private John Charles Edwards, the great uncle of my great uncle.

I’m so excited for when they finish this.

It’s a shame that there hasn’t been many films/tv series made about the Americans in ww1. Can only really think of the Lost Battalion film. Maybe hanks/spielburg could do a series about the AEF as their next project? Help promote America’s involvement in ww1.

My German great-grandfather was with Saxon XII. Armeekorps (specifically 3. Batterie / Feldartillerie-Regiment 48) on the Aisne at La Ville-aux-Bois-lès-Pontavert from his arrival at the front in October 1914 for about two years. I have since learned that parts of the extensive defensive system built there by the Saxons (including the tunnels under the Bois des Buttes which still survive today) were briefly used by the British in May 1918.

Well done good work. Visited Tyne Cot and The Somme 10 years ago. I enjoy your excellent content. Irish listener 🇮🇪

The town was known to the troops as Eat Apples.

I had never heard that French called them 'Sammys'.

Thanks for the tour and your insight/knowledge.

Great stuff Paul. Thanks for covering the Newfoundlanders.

Absolutely incredible!

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When people think of war dead, they tend to think of the frontline regiments, but the various corps also suffered losses. The dead of the Royal Engineers were not just sappers (tunnelers) but also pioneers who built and repaired transport infrastructure with no cover and within range of enemy artillery. The 1st Labour Battalion RE had 11 officers and 1027 other ranks in August 1915 (when my great grandfather, Pioneer 1120572 Harry Mount, joined them in France) and at the end of December 1915 the number of other ranks was down to 795 - an attrition rate of 22.6% in three months due to death, injury and sickness. On 7 October 1916 Harry's company came under shellfire, one was killed, four were seriously wounded (three died of wounds in hospital) and two were slightly wounded. (see the battalion war diary held in the National Archive WO-95-492-7)

Many thanks for this video. I was fortunate enough to go on a history field trip to Belgium as a 14yr old schoolboy and I remember visiting Hill 62 & Sanctuary Wood, it made an impression on me then and still does now. Incredible sacrifice made by the Canadians. 🙏