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[@charlesfrancis6894]

I am 75 and my dad was at the Somme in WW1 as a sergeant in the Lancashire Fusiliers i was 6 when he died and he told me nothing of the war as far as i remember, though my older brother told me he was gassed and of him swimming across a river to attach a line so when others like myself pass there will be no human contact with WW1 as happens after every war such as after Waterloo etc : film does however reveal history in non human form and makes me wonder what if film was available at Waterloo or Trafalgar .I have seen photographs of old men in uniform from Waterloo but film has so much impact.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

My grandfather too was gassed (survived) they never spoke of that war

[@geoffpriestley7310]

Both my grandads were in ww 1 and ww 2. My dad and mum were in ww2. My great auntie was killed by Germany shelling in 2. My mates grandma was killed when a German plane crashed on her house, there's still a gap the row of houses now . Every family was effected in some way

[@pauldurkee4764]

I think the most evocative images of the first world war, are from the film made in the sunken lane in front of Beaumont Hamel prior to the attack. The look on those men's faces has always stayed with me ever since I first saw those images. As you are probably aware those men were from the Lancashire Fusiliers.

[@timholder6825]

Timed mechanical fuses. Some were designed to explode mid air above enemy positions and shower the enemy below with lethal shrapnel.

[@ayeready6050]

It was at a place they called The Somme, on the first day of July When twenty thousand Ulstermen prepared to fight and die Sure they bravely charged through No Man's Land with the Red Hand flying high With the cry of "No surrender boys", old Ulster's battle cry Well, the Germans in their trenches deep could scarce believe their eyes When up and charged those Ulstermen and they heard their battle cries For what kind of men are those they said who would leave their native land Just to die upon this battlefield and what is that strange red hand? So on and on they fought that day where others feared to tread And on the wire and in the mud, they left behind their dead For the only flag to fly that day behind those German lines Was the old Red Hand of Ulster with its Shamrocks bound in nine

[@RockinDave1]

I smell a fellow Bear 😂

[@Mickman007]

Both grandads went through ww1 and they would only talk about it together in secrecy but my father crept behind a curtain at a party and heard his own father an RSM say that he had to shoot those running away and that if there were no officers around he'd let them run. WW1 was a human abattoir.

[@NuWhoSucks]

"They could hear it?" Absolutely. There's only 100 odd miles between The Thames & the Somme.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

But of course... The Somme is a little further east than London. With the main weather direction being from the west and the corresponding wind moving from west to east, you can certainly hear that. Especially when there has been continuous fire on the German positions for 10 days. I think it's more likely that there was a thunderstorm going on somewhere than anything else. Use your common sense...

[@Steelninja77]

The aussies and canadians always had our backs.And others. New zealanders etc

[@hr35rasmus]

My grandfather was at the Somme, got gassed and lost a thumb from a sniper, but he survived, I knew him in my childhood in the 1960s and he was a very cheerful fellow….😊

[@martynnotman3467]

One of my great great uncles died on the first day of the Somme. My Grt Grandfather fought at Gallipoli, survived that then got gassed on the Western Front. He was terrified of gas leaks for rest of his life.

[@johnwilletts3984]

Those first Tanks with the wrap around tracks were designed to cross trenches. The guns placed on the side were then meant to fire sideways along the German trench. The official name of the first vehicles was Landships. They were made at a company called Foster’s in Lincoln. Foster’s were told to keep these secret and so when someone asked “What are those big things that look like Water Tanks?” an Engineer thinking quickly said that they were meant to carry water to the front lines. This cover story was still being used even when they arrived in France. So mobile water tanks became shorted to TANKS.

[@timholder6825]

Sound travels faster through water than through air. The denser the medium the better and faster sound travels.

[@whitedwarf4986]

“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

[@gazbradster]

Have a look at the 2022 German film All quite on the western front, the horrors on both sides. It's in German view of what happens, I've watched it maybe 3 times

[@frogmaster83]

I have been to the Somme battle fields. Its scary how close to each other the trenches were at some points.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I have 2 great uncles who were gassed at the Somme and another who got a comendation from Churchill, he was a gardener after the war he could not cope with inside.it was only when he died at 99 years old we found out about his comendation, a very, quirt, and kind man. He never talked about the war but he did with my brother who was very young but he would sit at his feet and just take everything in he was also at Eap and other terrible places.

[@timholder6825]

Tanks were the only effective solution to barbed wire. People couldn't just wander around the battlefield with cables and such. It was called No Man's Land for a reason. It was swept with fire and exposing yourself meant death. The belts of barbed wire were often many metres thick and very dense. Look at a few photos of WW I battlefields you'll see what I mean.

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

Both my Grandfathers survived WW1 but two of my Great Uncles were killed at the Somme.

[@alexbardoux7297]

In WWI there are 2 types of shells . One type detonates by percussion, one detonates in the air with a fuse and drops schrapnell . The brittish used a lot of the second type . The need of great quantities of shells in 1915 and 1916 obliged to the creation of hundreds of manufactures and the recruitment of unskilled workers, that's why many shells failed to explode . At the end of the war there were millions...and there are still some even today .

[@Ikit1Claw]

10:27 shells have detonators, like pretty much every explosive device - no bomb is really left t5o explode on its own 11:54 and you just alerted enemy to your assault, and it takes a lot more strenght than you think

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Many artillery shells had a kind of time-clock ( I don't know the correct English word for it ) . Anyway, it's a mechanism that triggered the bomb at a certain moment after firing . Others had impact detonation triggers in the point. At the end of the day many artillery shells from W.W 1 either landed the wrong way , so not hitting a hard service with the point , landing flat , or landing in the mud & dirt so the pressure tip didn't go off. The time-mechanism often got damaged at impact , etc,etc.

[@Janie_Morrison]

My mum's Grandad was in that war and he never talk about it

[@ericjackson9496]

Hello people

[@ayeready6050]

Hullo

[@theAkildare]

Austria-Hungary was an ally to germany and the assassination attempt in Sarajevo on the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, is considered to be the trigger for WW 1

[@chrisholland7367]

60,000 battle casualties, 20,000 dead, and the rest missing or woundrd in just a few short hours. The first day of a campaign that lasted for about 4 months. On of darkest chapters in the history of the British Army.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Don’t know if you’ve covered it but The Falling of WW2 interesting

[@robertlangley1664]

My grandad and his brother fought on the first day the battle of the Somme,my grandad was captured and his brother was killed. No one in my dad’s family would talk about the Great War . My dad was in the Somerset light infantry and was sent to India in ww2 by the way he volunteer he was working the in Air craft factory called De Havilland with his brother sorry I when on to ww2

[@matspurs1629]

a fuse or a detonator

[@claregale9011]

Hell on earth , bless them all we will never forget them .

[@bubee8123]

My dude will never watch that Szigetvar video. 0:06

[@Crunch2327]

My grt grandad was there, medically discharged, he caught 3 bits, gut, arm and leg.

[@RockinDave1]

Regarding the bombardment, it was also further diminished by the that the Germans had dug their bunkers into the ground.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

If it was a victory, since the entente advanced, I suppose it was. It was, I think close to being a Pyrrhic Victory! (My great aunt lost 2 brothers in this battle, one on the 7th July, the other a week later on the 14th)

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Of course it was no victory. What kind of benchmark, did you choose?

[@DB-stuff]

Not sure why London was referenced.

[@K8E666]

For decades following the Somme the story was of ‘Lions led by Donkeys’. In other words brave Soldiers led by incompetent Generals. It’s only in recent years that history has been revisited in detail and we now understand that the old idea is wrong. The soldiers were ridiculously brave but the General’s weren’t the incompetent fools they were made out to be.

[@RockinDave1]

The Australians were part of the British Empire until 13 years before World War One broke out so their ties to Britain were (and are) extremely close. More so than America and Britain I’d say in truth. The point modern historians make about it being necessary is to say that they could have just not fought the battle at all and instead attempted a breakthrough elsewhere, but what they are saying was that in hindsight that wouldn’t have been the best idea so the Somme is somewhat justified. I personally don’t know if I agree with them. There’s a lot of revisionism going on around the history of the world wars at the moment and I’m not convinced it’s all being based on the facts.

[@apollo1015]

The battle of the som was the dawn of modern warfare at the time, the heavy machine gun & flanking machichine guns, it was a massacre

[@timholder6825]

German Empire (with African territories), Austro Hungarian Empire (Austria, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Poland) Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Iraq, Jourdan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine/Israel).

[@rosaliegolding5549]

😞😲Australian and New zealanders not on the European front HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE ANZACS they were in the front already in GALLIPOLI FOR STARTERS 😮😥and in France ,Belgium EVERYWHERE THESES TWO COUNTRIES LIKE THE ENGLISH CAN

[@fabs8498]

I am french. The cemetaries are still there and we remember.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@fabs8498 Tu devrais faire ça aussi ! Car après tout, la France voulait cette guerre à tout prix...

[@fabs8498]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 faire ca quoi ?

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@fabs8498 Ce qu'il faut faire? Eh bien… Obtenir la guerre à laquelle la France travaillait depuis si longtemps. Qu'en penses-tu? Et juste pour qu'il n'y ait pas de malentendus ici... je vous ai pardonné. Vous avez appris votre leçon.

[@fabs8498]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 quelle guerre la France souhaite ? Suand on a eu deux guerres dur son propre territoire avec des millions de morts encore la on ne veut pas la guerre. Mzis on se prepare a defendre le pays.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

The same spiel over and over again... Of course the Battle of the Somme was a defeat for the Entente. In fact, British and French losses were at least 170,000 men higher than those of the Germans. The argument that this significantly changed the Battle of Verdun is also absolutely ridiculous. The (idiotic) idea of the German high command bleeding the French army dry by attacking a position that France would defend to the last man is a completely different approach than the little narrator here wants us to believe. Because if you think the matter through, it makes no difference whether the French fall at Verdun or 205,000 of them, like they did at the Somme. All that, for this ridicolous advance! The slaughter of 1916 made such an impression on the French troops, that it led to a mutiny in the French army in the spring of 1917. The fact is, however, that the battle did not achieve the desired goal for the Allies. The chance for a surprising success with the tanks was carelessly wasted and the Battle of Verdun still only ended in November, like on the Somme. As already said, it's always the same nonsense... And never underestimate the Germans! It is just as the New England historian so aptly said: "...and England entered the war that ruined her..."

[@Sotsufferer]

British empire was falling apart regardless of ww1 and the German casualties considered of a lot of well trained soldiers and officers who had served for years whilst the British casualties were almost entirely freshly recruited. Tldr: the German casualties had a larger impact on Germany than the entente casualties had on Britain and France.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@Sotsufferer Yep! Only... These young men of England were all volunteers. Before the battle, there was no conscription in the Empire. After that, it was! Or, as a historian once so eloquently put it: "They were the best that England could field..." So please don't try to downplay the quality of these men so that the defeat doesn't look as devastating as it does was reality. And of course the German losses were not just extremely combat-experienced units. There were always fairly inexperienced replacements, freshly trained at home, sent to the front. And what has been completely ignored here... At the same time, all Russian offensives in the east were stopped and the Romanian army, which had just entered the war in August, was crushed and Romania was 2/3 occupied. A German army was sufficient for this. In August 1916, no one would have put a single shilling on the German card. In November, the Allies' mood had reached rock bottom...

[@Sotsufferer]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 well according to records by Germany, France and Britain, there were 158,000 dead/missing entente soldiers from the Somme and 160,000 dead or missing Germans. Britain and France counted more kinds of injuries as casualties compared to the Germans which is why the total German casualties figure is heavily debated. However, in terms of dead - the Germans are seen to have suffered more which is surprising in a German defensive battle. Britain and France had a larger manpower pool compared to Germany which further points to a slight attritional victory.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@Sotsufferer It's very simple: According to official statements, the Germans lost 335,688 men. However, probably around 465,000. And of those, 125,000 fell or died from their wounds. Why always this nonsense? There is good data available. This reminds me of the Battle of Jutland. Always the same talk... Whoever lost more men and couldn't achieve the goals is the loser. End of the story...

[@Sotsufferer]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 weird that Germany lost and couldn’t conduct any successful offensive after 1916…

[@anthonymullen6300]

The British had no right coming to the aid of France. France who was yearning for payback after the Franco Prussian War. The war would have been over in a matter of weeks with a German Victory.... but no the British had to come to protect their Empire and in doing so ended up losing their Empire.

[@user-gi1ek3vz4m]

To many of my family were there a father and son from my family met each other there after not seeing each other for years reconnected there unfortunately 6 of my grans uncles died in the mud there my gran went too school and saw 6 men’s names baring her mums surnames too find out later that day that’s what happened too her uncles in her school days 1920s