I love looking at then and now photographs and these are exceptional, brilliantly done.

All those men that gave their lives for so little territory gained it truly was a battle of attrition . All those men never envisioned a war on an industrial scale with the new devasting weapons . Then to think a new world war would break out almost twenty years later as the Germans marcged once again over this land and further . Great video , makes you think of all those men that never made it home . Lest we forget !

Beautiful music aswell. Have you got a music list? Thanks

Absolutely amazing

Damn you did a good job on this. I'm here to say thank you in 2023

Fascinating yet so sad for these brave young men , we will never forget them . Thankyou for these.

3:50 It shakes me a lot to know that many of these heroes died minutes later and theirs will always be immortalized in footage.

Magnifique hommage rendu a ces hommes . Une boule à la gorge en voyant ces hommes allant vers leur destin

Brilliant. Thank you for your hard work putting this together. Much appreciated.

Thank you for your time and effort that you guys put in to make this, a fitting memorial to that innocent generation.

WOW this is well done, thanks for sharing.

God damn this is awesome 😲 Imagine one of these today with modern HD cameras? Why does no-one do this kind of stuff anymore? 😑 I've looked all over youtube for live firing exercises.

My God this is so moving 😕

Very well done, thanks!

Superb

They shall not grow 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 shall remember them.

That music really touches my heart and is fitting for this very fine video.

Very moving. thank you!

Absolutely fantastic. What a terrible waste of young lives. God help us all. From Ireland 🇮🇪

Warrior is superbly reliable, but, had BaE carried out the mid life upgrade we so desperately needed, we could have added power elevation and stabilisation to the excellent Rarden and been able to 30mm a lot of those targets rather than hosing them down. "NEVER fly straight and level in the combat zone" they tell you, but our 1st gen turret forces us to stop to fire. Sydney Jary, after watching a demo like this, said that his WW2 anti tank teams would have massacred such easy, slow moving targets! Warrior was designed to carry the infantry to a suitable debus point then 'shoot them in'. It does a great job of that, but, with stab, it would survive better to carry on doing so. The cancelled Warrior CSP turret would have given us all that (no need for the deplorable FRENCH 40mm gun), but we are now left with the hope for Boxer to step in and fill the gap. With the Lance turret it might, but surely we should be building our own AJAX replacement which could do that in our way?

The film is great; the soundtrack is terrible. Put narration instead.

Brilliant, I visited the Somme this year 2022 Mametz wood and the 38th Welsh division was particularly moving for me as a Welsh man. Your video adds a level of realism I’ve not seen in any other videos on the Somme. Least we forget.

I actually prefer this version to the updated one (which is also excellent). I Vow to Thee my Country starting at the Minden Post segment is perfect. It's the 1st of July so I'm back watching again for the umpteenth time

Shame you didn't do more videos. This was very solemn and moving ... thank you. And great choice of music.

Best film I have ever seen on this subject. Period.

Moving!

Brilliant 🇬🇧

Buried bombs everywhere

The music (from Saving Private Ryan) I believe is beautiful and a really good choice. Makes it very evocative.

Mate,Thank you 4this excellent work...

What is the beautiful music composed by?

Nice work

Good work thank you.

Fabulous and very moving

Thank you... so often over the years I have seen the various snippets of archival film but had no idea where it was taken... seeing the modern day landscape adds context. Much appreciated

Cool.. Is it a Panther?

An excellent effort and i have been in almost all those places as well. Just a question over the near last scene claiming to be Gommecourt. This is seemingly taken from the cinema film "the Somme battle" released later that year. Most studies believe that almost all the scenes of actual assault except those by Malin near (but not at) the sunken road mainly of the wretched Lancashire Fusiliers were of practice manouevres. I fear that the Gommecourt clip might be an example of this? With respect...

The craziest part is that you cannot really see the enemy. It's looks like open fields because of the trenches.

Shame the Jaguar was retires

I miss this shit!

How did you find all this? I'm stunned and moved at the same time.

Awesome , I was a mounted gunner in a scimitar and used to love range days . Best I saw though was in Sennelager a firepower demonstration by NITAT in NI traing , the Browning machine gun was awesome .

Brilliant film. John William's "Hymn to the Fallen" (from SPR) is a great track of remembrance, but is American. And WWII. Ralph Vaughan Williams is good (and he served in the British Army, in WWI). Good bit of Elgar, though.

This might be old film but its showing an awful lot of fire power doubt they still do this.Thanks for uploading

Always sceptical of such clips but i must say, the cutouts are well done. Thanks for sharing

Found this extremely moving. Well made.

Those who think war is glorious should speak to those who have gone, willingly or otherwise, into combat. Those who have actually gone to war know better than anyone else that war is hell.

Excellent!

FANTASTIC simple as that ,

Captions are too fleeting and font is hard to read. But thanks.