This is a great video. I recently moved back to Cumbria after my Wife and I lived in Buntingford for 5 years. We used to do walks every night for those 5 years in the fields just outside of Buntingford. I miss it so dearly, and your video allows me to relive those memories! God bless.

I got scared when you said you had found something in the woods, makes me remember when you and dad found the grenade.

Good god you must be very bored… and you obviously do not live here do you…

If you're looking for another reason Rupert mightve become Robert... I am a Rupert and have emails addressed to Robert all the time. Might be a simple admin error that was later corrected for his gravestone

I had an old neighbour who left school during WW2. For over 30 years I knew him as "John", but when he died I found out that was not the name on his head stone. It seems that often when boy's were given a traditional family name, they were often known by a different name inside the family. I am wondering if he grew up being called "Archie" by his family, but took the opportunity of joining the army to change it to something more "manly" sounding. The family would have had an input into his gravestone. As they chose the verse to be included. I suspect that they could also have specified the name to be used. Thereby, reclaiming the name his family gave him.

Thank you, I used to live in Wicken back in the late 1990s and it was trip down memory lane seeing the Fen and the Pub.

guys stop complicating sh.t, I have one question, do you sir have a big residential building nearby ? if so, ask the plumber he'll tell you all the detail.

All the people tramping through can't be doing it any good.

Beautiful Essex always so understated yet your walks shows the world how beautiful it is thank you both from an old Essex girl

Lovely place, like England used to be

In case you were wondering, the loud "whoop" was the testosterone just screaming through the nozzles.

In the group photograph with Rupert he, and a few others, are clearly wearing brass, Terrortorial Army, shoulder titles. So your idea he had military experience prior to the conflict seems to be correct...

David that was an absolutely incredible story, I was glued to my screen for every minute of this. You did a great job with your research, getting in touch with the family members and telling & narrating this story. It really is both fascinating and frustrating never actually knowing how's these little pieces of metallic history end up in the ground. This sort of video should garner the attention of TV companies, because it would make an awesome TV program

Great investigative work, you may have not found all the answers, but you learned more than you had ever anticipated. Interesting

My ancestor Sir Knight Robert de Gravele is buried in st Andrews and St Mary's church in the floor. He lived under Edward longshanks. I live in America. Im coing to see one day.

Great bit of research. My head keeps coming back to the fact that the dead mans penny was folded over - I would not think that as an easy thing to do! and of course the location is a mystery. Some great suggestions around that.

Great Video David

Farmers have all kinds of 'junk' hanging around in the outhouses, it's possible the plaque ended up at the wrong address, as you say, and used to cobble a hasty repair on a tractor and then fallen off in the field. Maybe it got folded as it needed to be thicker to bridge a gap in a potential bodge job. Great video you made here 👍👍

I have a suggestion. As a long standing genealogist, you make a tree for the family. Then have their DNA done. The reason I suggest this is, this soldier may have fathered a child from that area. The mother may be the person who buried the death penny. I have tried this myself and you would be surprised what comes up. Also old news papers will reveal a lot of information. That’s my top tip. Good luck. ❤

Oddly fascinating.

Or it was stolen and chucked away....if kids got hold of it who knows. These death plaques were also used as fillers in roads, , they were the right size for filling in , tram poles I think....I read it somewhere...or saw a YT video on it. I bought a ww1 certificate on ebay for £5 , from a soldier from a village. I joined the village group and was able to reunite the family with the certificate, which along with the soldiers medals were stolen in the 1960s......😊

Maybe his name was misspelled Rupert became Robert because of ineligible writing or a typo?

What a great story, Good of you to research all of the facts, thank you for sharing, I know how difficult it is to do this research, as I tried to find out details of my grandfather's brother who was killed at the second battle of Soissons in 1918 and was never found.

very good bob

What a story! Well done indeed, I have a great uncle lost beneath the battlefield somewhere around Arras, did you find his attestation paper this may indicate medical conditions etc

Well done, sir. Amazing work!

Wow, that was very cool... thanks fir putting it up there 👍

Thanks very much for this. Really interesting. What you have done is so important to our history. You have certainly encouraged. me to keep digging in to my family history!

I've had a similar journey, no plaques just papers.

This is an amazing story for many reasons, your theory is quite possible because the plaque was folded in half as if to forget the mistake but buried out of respect instead of being destroyed completely. I had no idea that these plaques were given to the families of the dead soldiers. But your research was not wasted at all. Well done indeed!

Fantastic

Thank you for sharing your experience, you did a wonderful thing for that family.

The midden heap was often piled onto a cart and dumped in the fields. This is why bits of crockery are found scattered away from dwellings. It's possible the 'Devils Penny' was just thrown out the back of the house onto a rubbish dump by the family who received it in error and was deposited in the field you found it in.

Great tale.

Brilliant story

Fantastic story, and well told. Thanks for sharing!

Coincidentally, I first saw that computer program this afternoon. My daughter got it for her birthday today and we were helping her to add family history. Well done, Dave for a very interesting story, which I shall now share with my daughter. 👍

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What an absolutely amazing story. I was gripped throughout the whole video. I wonder if there is anything else in that field. My cousin discovered that Fredrick Fleet who was the surviving lookout on the RMS Titanic was his Great Grandfather. On my father’s side we had a relative who had been in and survived the charge of the light brigade at Balaclava. Thank you for such an interesting video.

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Fantastic story- thanks for sharing - lest we forget.

The George is believed to date from the mid-17th century, 1650s. There is a sad story that during the 1840s, when times were hard, two local lads broke into the pub through the daub walls and stole some wine, bread, cheese and cash. The noise they made woke the landlady and she woke the guests and residents, who went down to the cellar to see what was going on. By the time the landlady got down there, one of the miscreants was half way out of the hole in the wall with one of the guests hanging on to his legs. His accomplice had apparently been outside the pub, trying and failing to drag his friend free. Both lads were sentenced to deportation to Australia for 10 years, and at least one of them never came back, dying there in 1910.

great walk thank you David, mate and I did it very recently.

Wow! Thank you! (Though I preferred the Roman ditch!)

I think this place is full of mystery and fantasies and you will never get to the bottom of it i have since been talking to someone and they say nothing is buried there but so many people say there is it is a mystery which is is great

Very, very cool!

The name game their was a game keeper called game up hammels Lane in the 50 and 60s i had some Runnings with him and the other game keeper was white up mentley lane Puckeridge

interesting i must say i know that area so well but that story about The Highwayman i have heard so many different stories

I cannot get out walking at the moment so really enjoying your walk with you.

We are here now it's beautiful