British Military March 1933 - Unequalled In The World

British Military March 1933 - Unequalled In The World
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[@edwardellery3032]

No barriers to hold the crowds back, discipline and respect just wish we could turn the clock back on our country ,England that was.

[@jackieking1522]

Lucky they weren't up North....some of the starving miners might have summoned the strength to shout a few obscenities.

[@tedwarden1608]

A lot of those lads came from those towns.

[@JJM-qf8dz]

In America we wished the same as your thoughts turn the clock back and make the America that once was..

[@jackieking1522]

@@tedwarden1608 Yeah, any port in a storm. I nearly did the same thing but wasn't tough enough so we emigrated instead.

[@samuelwright1129]

That's the time when country and honour meant everything!

[@johnbobson1557]

It's the time when we had a country.

[@thomasshepard6030]

Sadly long gone now

[@nistaffsubs6787]

Before communist ideology spread as a pest...

[@francoisdebellefroid2268]

That comment seems a bit out of touch while the exact same ceremony still takes place every single year, with soldiers taking part to it performing it with an intact sense of duty and honour.

[@Wally1967]

@@francoisdebellefroid2268 They talking about a lot of people nowadays not respecting them King Guards esp visitors.

[@notwocdivad]

More men on parade here than we have in our whole army now! Everything straighter then, Their backs were straighter and their lines and ranks were straighter! You can feel their pride leaping at you from every frame of the film!! Thank you!!

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

that's the result of ceaseless drill, not pride

[@notwocdivad]

Marching before your King in 1933 meant a whole lot more than it might do now, that is pride mate!

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

@@notwocdivad in 1933 the guards did far more ceremonial practice than they do now. Now, they work far harder. Accordingly they have less time for drill practice. The affection and esteem with which the Guards, in fact the whole army, hold the monarch is unchanged. Because they know for fact that the affection and esteem is returned. So the drop in drill standards, (and we can all see it, it's real), is nothing to do with a supposed lack of "pride" and everything to do with drill being a lower priority than training for war

[@karp6130]

It looks like they had a specific height requirement for the guards in those days. They all look about the same height. This marching precision is much better than today's and more like Chinese and NK military drill much more fascinating to watch.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

@@karp6130 they did. I think it was 6 foot, which indicates the emphasis on appearance over military effectiveness

[@thumtlnguyen3626]

Three things noticed from an outsider: 1. Uniforms and march were much better back then 2. British soldiers looked fit not fat 3. They looked proud and strong

[@wightman1525]

And all six feet tall and above.

[@ttonypayne5077]

Absolutely fantastic, A time when we felt proud to say we were British and respect for others. God save the King

[@claraedouwesdekker6389]

Truly magnificent. From an Afrikaans speaking South African. Some of my ancestors died in Lord Kitchener’s concentration camps. But that does not prevent me from acknowledging something excellent and outstanding. To this day I enjoy watching the Royal Guards, etc. only the Brits can do it so properly. The bands, the marching, the pride in their discipline ….. the word chivalry comes to mind. Thank you for sharing. It made this old lady’s morning. 👏🏻🇿🇦

[@styx14045]

Lee Enfield with an 18" bayonet. Great combination for rifle drill.

[@stefanm67]

What a wonderful video. Beautifully clear. Six years after this was filmed these soldiers were, once again, involved in another world war. So nice to see old footage without a silly 'watermark' to spoil it. Thanks for uploading it. ❤❤❤

[@edwardbrown3308]

Many on parade died never to celebrate the changing of the guard again. Somber thought.

[@raymondacbot4007]

@@edwardbrown3308I’m sure every man there knew his job

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Many more guards then than there is now. Minimum height requirement then.

[@peterdavis7579]

Reflects the shrinkage in the armed forces. Britain will shortly have its smallest army for 200 years.

[@DirkVD]

@@peterdavis7579 We in Belgium are already past that point

[@edwardbrown3308]

And noooooo women in the bands !!!!!

[@montyzumazoom1337]

@@edwardbrown3308 I was going to say that. Unfortunately though it’s true. When you see a marching band and catch sight of a short bandswoman, somehow it just doesn’t look right. However the Kings troop Royal Horse Artillery has lots of women, and they don’t look out of place there-in fact quite the opposite.

[@pincermovement72]

Can’t make out what guards regiment it is my grandfather was in the grenadier guards then so could have been there . A 6ft 4 inch heavyweight champion boxer at his prime till he returned from Dunkirk with a shrapnel stomach wound you could put your fist in , 9 months in a Catterick hospital and was pensioned off . Often wonder what he would have thought at our country now and what he fought for ?

[@joshuapopoff9225]

Of the fifty thousand people seen on that field that day only six are still alive March, 2024. Life is fleeting.

[@johnarbuthnott3445]

Life stops for no one, sad nevertheless

[@chairmanalf7856]

It’s amazing to think that this was filmed 91 years ago and when my own Father was aged 13.

[@trainsontuesday]

It would be wonderful to see that colourized. I attended the Trooping of The Colour in 1971, a much smaller affair but a highlight in my life.

[@georgekennedy2496]

I am Scottish and I love this .

[@brianmarshall1637]

Records show that 1933 was a beautiful Summer.The film shows that as the sun shone on that June day.

[@philipchretienkarlsson8157]

A magnificent parade ! Long live the King's Guard !

[@gordonspicer]

the quality of the marching then was superb. It began to fall off in the 1990's and got worse since sadly

[@claphamalex]

Diversity was not our strength.

[@johntooth1886]

Never will be.

[@oltyret]

You had the diversity you needed: One regiment of Scots, one regiment of Irish, one regiment of Welsh and two regiments of English. At that time, that was considered plenty diverse - and strong! Now, this has been corrupted into calling and recruiting anyone who lives in the recruiting areas as Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English when they clearly are not. A unit is strong when it is exclusive and well trained. When it is inclusive with people who shouldn't be there and poorly trained, you can only pretend that it is strong.

[@majorlaff8682]

Nor was perversity.

[@pan2aja]

For you peasant ? no. For your elite land owning royalty. Diversity is their power

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

We were diverse enough within our own cultures thank you very much - don't need the rancid so called diversity being thrust upon us by rabid wokism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sandywilkie564]

Wonderful. Absolutely love this. Thank you.

[@fredwood1490]

Magnificent! It's a kind of ballet, the Dance of War, where every move in this parade was once used in battle, for purposes as different as war is now, but to assure that every man knew what the next man was going to do, every man had his place and knew how to use that place and every man knew he was among Brothers, who would and did give their lives for each other and for love of country, and totally understood that ,"dying for your country" was not the point of the exercise, killing and achieving the goal was.

[@vernonwhite4660]

Where did the Brits go wrong? Here they are strong and proud!

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

@salvadorvizcarra769 Yawn. Bitter much.

[@sasmac1829]

Nothing much the British are not able to suck blood from its colonial empire now compared to those days that's what is wrong with Brits these days

[@glennhumphries9444]

They diversified.

[@jackieking1522]

Its only a show. My relatives, the ones who survived the first WW, were starving while this performance was going on.

[@davidcross8028]

The Brits didn't go wrong; the government did. But you can only vote for what is in front of you.?? I am an Englishman, 68 this year, but I will not vote for any of the three main parties.

[@eddieraffs5909]

Glad to see "This man's Army" was indeed this man's army.

[@johng1216]

In the words of Winsor Davies, "Show them shoulders off lovely boys," not one man out of step.

[@robertbutler2481]

We had a country then

[@ssmt2]

Actually, you had an empire then.

[@neilmalloy5830]

This is when the Army was an Army, well disciplined and well trained and their probably more soldiers on this porade than their is in our whole Armyof today.

[@voiceofreason9238]

British marching bands are very similar today carrying on a proud tradition. Highest respect from your American cousins. God save the King.

[@brucebisbey9554]

Wonderful........and sad., six years to WW2. For that six years every part of the empire functioned in many ways as it had for 150 to 300 years. The day to day life, situations and business as usual...................The wonderment of it all. Thank you for sharing this. A Yank.

[@ianlogantilson7244]

The Brigade was almost the same size as the Army is today.

[@pauldurkee4764]

In the old days an infantry battalion would be 4 companies of roughly 250 men each. Present day battalions are lucky to have 600 per battalion, and they are having recruitment issues.

[@ianlogantilson7244]

@@pauldurkee4764 That's why I put my comment my family have been involved with the Army since the 1890@s when there were up to 10+ battalions of most Regiments. There must have been at least 20 Battalions of Guards at the time this film was made. 🙂

[@chrispalmer7456]

Amazing footage. Very sad to think that all these fine people are now all gone.

[@jankrusat2150]

At 1:25 the Austrian march "Under the Double Eagle"

[@Rolkass1]

„Unter dem Doppeladler“

[@Sshooter444]

Great tune

[@gunhojput]

Not woke not diverse just some british ways in the british country something to be proud of. just immaculately refreshing, here here to the british way of life. now can we have it back please. thanks for posting this british slice of life.

[@marco-58]

When Guardsmen ( And Policemen), had to be 6' tall and the Drill was sharp and precise. No more.

[@Coolerman565]

When my Dad came out of the Guards after the war some of his friends went on to join the Police, when i was growing up the Police officers always looked big, a young lady one of my neighbours has just joined the police very nice girl but don't think she would be much use trying to restore order in a Pub brawl.

[@marco-58]

I remember coppers with WW2 medal ribbons. My Grand Father was a London copper who served 1 year in West Africa (Empire), as is counted as 2 years towards his pension. It was that bad over there.@@Coolerman565

[@roybrookes9433]

No body does it better and still in 2024 ! ! ❤🎉

[@kennethquesenberry2610]

Their marching movements such as swinging the arms and stamping the feet weren't as exaggerated as they are today.

[@simonmonk7266]

The drill is a lot sharper too.

[@williammohan9784]

@@simonmonk7266 i was about to remark on that.

[@grahamcayzer5721]

“Bend the knee thigh parallel to the ground” and “swing the arms shoulder high” were to teach recruits foot drill. Trained soldiers only need to lift the foot 6” and swing the arms waist belt high - or did back in the 70s and 80s

[@kennethquesenberry2610]

@@grahamcayzer5721 My copy of the Drill Manual, All Arms (1965) does indeed instruct to swing the arms so the bottom of the hand is level with the top of the waist belt (Recruits will swing the arm forward so the top of the hand is in line with the top of the breast pocket. Personally, one really needs one's own drill sergeant to properly understand everything. Naturally, being American, there are many instructions that almost need translating, since Americans don't exactly speak English. I've been to the U.K. and we clearly do not quite speak the same language. But expressions like "shoot the left foot forward," "bend the right knee," and so on. And it is beyond me how, in shouldering the 7.62 SLR, one can, "with a flick of the right wrist throw the rifle up to the front of the right shoulder." In watching videos of that movement, it happens very quickly. Anyway, my Canadian drill manual (1951) uses almost the same language, even including "shooting the left foot forward."

[@boblovell5789]

I'm sure we were taught to swing arms only waist height. But maybe that was peculier to our regimental tradition. ​That was DCLI in the 50's ! @@grahamcayzer5721

[@andrewhammond1949]

A few lessons for the Americans. 1. How to march, not walk in time. 2. How to spell “Honour and Colour “.

[@thatguyinelnorte]

We gave our answer in 1776...

[@bluestorm9977]

No need for the Yanks to have an exaggerated marching style to look powerful when the Yanks are quite powerful themselves. ("The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest is the US Navy.")

[@otterspocket2826]

@@thatguyinelnorte- 1776? Was that the one where instead of charging people for providing the protection of empire we let them just pay for their own defence and admin instead, but continued to trade as profitably as before (the purpose of colonies)? It's obviously a big deal over there, but your war of independence really is a non-event to Brits. I bet 90% have no idea it ever happened, or conflate it with the civil war - just something that happened in America. I'm not saying that as a put down, it's just the way it is.

[@gnolan4281]

This at a time when the collossal deaths of WWI and the ghoulish Grim Reaper harvest of the Spanish flu were fresh in the minds of the public. The UK had barely had time to get back on sound footing, and there was, in the wilderness one lone former naval person telling anyone who would listen that Blighty would soon be put though it all over again. Depleted as she was the United Kingdom on principle stood up to Hitler and fought him alone for many months. May God bless that magnificent civilization.

[@johncook3817]

I wonder how many of these brave men died in the war. I bet they would be horrified to see the woke mess we are in now😢

[@robp4297]

Oh dear, how pathetic. You really do need to read something other than the Daily Mail.

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

It's grim: Census data? Crime statistics? Obesity rates? Falling IQ? National standing by GDP? Hospital waiting times? ... take your pick! @@robp4297

[@ricknelms]

nah they were horrified fighting woke Fascists

[@robp4297]

@@ricknelmsdefine woke fascists

[@billybaxter6333]

All done with the old Lee Endfield .303. Bloody heavy!

[@sknations4750]

1933 The British = "The empire on which the sun never sets!"

[@braila-jf8hb]

Let me tell you why God made sure that the sun never set over the British Empire. The reason was because he could not trust the them in the Dark.

[@Bill-ed1hr]

It was replaced by the American empire

[@terrydavis1488]

The dressing then was much better than now. Lot of wavy lines today.

[@emanuelerossi7610]

Fantastic !!!!

[@knutclau705]

Anyone noticed the cloud of pipeclay at 2.56 when present arms... ? 😂

[@keithdavis4997]

Best recording mid-1960s Trooping the Colour with the Band of the Grenadier Guards/ R Bashford, cond. Amazing sound quality (at one point you can hear boat whistles from the Thames) and all the classic marches.

[@michaelwilkinson2928]

Back in the days when we used to have an army and each Guards Regiment had several battalions. I wonder how many of those professional soldiers ended their days on the battlefields of WW2, having suffered the cutbacks of the appeasing governments of the 1930's (ring any bells, Neville Sunak or Jeremy Chamberlain?).

[@robinfryer479]

I wonder how many of those chaps subsequently died, fighting for our country, 6 years and more, later.

[@jackieking1522]

My Uncle was one.... wounded at Dunkirk and later told me "Next time, the bastards can defend themselves." He was referring to the London aristocracy.

[@TheVigilantEye77]

UK RIP. It was a good run

[@olwens1368]

It was. I'm quite glad my parents who both served in WW2 popped off before things got really bad. It was still a lovely country when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. Problems certainly but somehow you thought everything would get better, not steadily worse.

[@majorlaff8682]

What! No girlie guards? No dwarves or pygmies?

[@ianjenkins5389]

Or pride flags ! Non diversity and Exclusion at it's finest.

[@robp4297]

You really do think you are clever don't you. Girlies, dwarves, pygmies? You should be ashamed of yourself.

[@robp4297]

@@ianjenkins5389I'm a gay man, do you have a problem with that?

[@ianjenkins5389]

I am sick to death of having Gay agenda shoved in our faces 7/24.@@robp4297

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

Nope - and I dare say some of those marching were as well. Homosexuals were discreet back then and didn't feel the need to tell all and sundry - now every comment today is: I'm a treat me special! Pride is the pretext to folly (which is why it is traditionally regarded as a sin) irregardless of the context. @@robp4297

[@alanhill2886]

Troops of the British Empire.

[@raymondpomfret4214]

When the British military army was a army ,not a woke shambles of a army now ,its a crying shame

[@ricknelms]

"woke"

[@philjones9339]

Those redcoats could drill! ❤

[@wasawat.cnetprahas]

Music Inspection : The polonaise in a

[@archibaldjenkins5743]

And we still had an Army!

[@groover5524]

Those lines are a lot straighter than when they do it now ! So unless that parade ground has gotten more uneven , it looks like the modern army isn't as focused on precise drilling as it used to be .

[@jimmatthews6135]

In the 60s I used to love marching (I wasn't in the armed forces) at first I was rubbish but eventually I got better. Perhaps they could introduce it into schools. It's a group thing, competitive, and fun, but it probably wouldn't wearing trainers.

[@goldamadine6112]

ich bin ein grosser Fan vom Britischen Königshaus und seinen Traditionen

[@berteisenbraun7415]

That's too bad some of the Best Soldiers out there!

[@patrickchallis5063]

You can bet that every local pub were dry at the end of that day!🍺

[@taylorw]

And 7 years later they were under the Wehrmach’s guns and the Luftwaffe’s bombs on the beach at Dunkirk. How the hell did they go from this to that?

[@unitedwestand5100]

This was just a few years before they ran at Dunquerge, and abandoned their ally France.

[@thafunktapus]

nobody wanted to be on the wrong end of that

[@stevevoyles3816]

My God what has happened to the brits, they used to be so proud and strong. Now conqured by Islamists..where did they go wrong?😮

[@terryhorne2582]

A bastard named Blair & his woke Labour party started the downfall with open door immigration & we have exactly the same with the labour party nowadays, it will be even worse if they do get into number 10. Soldiers you see in this video wouldn't have fought in the 2nd WW if they could have seen the future of this once great country.

[@braila-jf8hb]

@stevevoyles3816. They chewed of more than they could eat, now it's biting them on the bum!

[@snowflakemelter1172]

British is not " conquered by Islamists" don't be stupid.

[@Fred-fl2fo]

I notice they are all the same height. Tall and magnificent. Look at them now short ones tall ones all over the place just the world we now live in.

[@jexxajess6837]

Today, that's the size of the army!

[@dann547]

Must have been some serious get there early and waiting.

[@QPRTokyo]

Needs to be fully restored to the standard of Peter Jackson’s work.

[@marinaknife4595]

Am I being picky? ... but I always feel when watching parades today, the lines never seem as straight, arms when marching not all same level and steps wide or short of each other in the same line - not all regiments but quite a few - perhaps because they dropped specific height requirement?

[@raywhitehead730]

Size British Army -both reserve and active, 1933 about 3 million. Size British Army -both reserve and active, 2020 about 110thousand.

[@johnjohnson9078]

Wonder how many of these impeccable troops were at Dunkirk ?

[@carlvaz]

Very smart!

[@TauvicRitter]

So elegant, just ballet dancers

[@michaelmayhood4286]

Sorry to hurt everyone's feelings but these guys were better than we! No evidence to the contrary!

[@robertlockett5381]

I don't understand some of the comments in relation to the video?!

[@germanalvarado5473]

It was an era which will never be repeated. Unfortunately the US is following the same path!

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

Ain't nobody can do that like the Brits.

[@markothwriter]

The American Army never could march very well. But, we were undefeated until Vietnam.

[@grahamlait1969]

Sorry to have to actually point this out to all the little Englanders commenting below, but the standard of drill was no higher then than it is now. Even given that this is edited highlights, there are obvious errors. Just look at the the standard of the drill at 2.30 or the dressing of the ranks during the slow march around 4.50. The standard of the music is certainly higher now. I'm not being nasty or derogatory, just stating the blindingly obvious. Perhaps the truth is that we see what we want to see, not what is actually in front of us.

[@boomerang4864]

But the Band of the Royal Marines is still the greatest band in the world, by far.

[@khiggins7231]

Where are the coloured people in the parade? Is it because the film is in black & white we cannot see them but they are there ?

[@ianjenkins5389]

In Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica, etc...... Pre-Windrush days.

[@majorlaff8682]

At home. Where they belonged.

[@robp4297]

@@majorlaff8682You should be very careful, racially motivated hate-speech is quite rightly a crime in the UK. Don't imagine it will take the police long to track you down via your email address etc.

[@JoseMontero-u3o]

That's when the UK was a proper country, and had might and power, not the joke that it is now.

[@Gutsy9]

Guessing it’s not 1933. Certainly not George V. I’d say it’s the sole Birthday Parade for Edward VIII.

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

Edward VIII became king for a short while in 1936, the year of the three kings. This is for George V, reigned from 1910 -1936.

[@fieryfredthebeaconlighter2259]

How sad that today the whole active Regular Army could not fill the stands at the West Ham Stadium at 80,000 capacity! If you think that’s bad, the whole Army Reserve and the Brigade of Gurkhas combined will leave spare seats at Elland Road. Food for thought?

[@senianns9522]

To think that just about all persons seen in this footage have 'passed on'!

[@tinysaxon3826]

This is when Irish gaurds were Irishmen, Welsh gaurds were Welshmen, Scots gaurds were Scots and The English gaurds were Englishmen !! Not like todays third rate regiments, over 6ft and not 6ft round, and these boys could march !! Look at the Pride !, NOT a fat one there!!

[@dulls8475]

You will find the Scots Guards also recruit from England, mainly in the north.

[@chrismccartney8668]

No shorties

[@achuthanjk9758]

Pre WWII British Army at its Best!

[@angeloterribili3525]

Exactly the same as the German milatry marchesat the time must have been the vogue

[@Wolfen443]

Six years before the last great war by the Empire, it broke it and ended the Empire for good. But, like thew British like to say, they went out fighting taking out the New Huns. Funny story, Roman Britain seems to have carried over at first or preserve in some form the once Italy based Empire ways longer than Byzantium.

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

The year Hitler came to power..... Japan's plans for manchuria. Sir Frank whittle was finalising his revolutionary jet engine. Britain's defence expenditure was reduced, again. Ukraine was still suffering the effects of stalins forced starvation. My mom was one my dad was 2, My grandad was in the ox and bucks light infantry, and 7 years later, as a seargant, would be killed defending the river scheldt in Belgium. It may have been a sunny day, but the storm clouds of war were allready gathering.

[@davidbeavan9521]

Thats when England was England sang round the flag rule Britain's and ment it

[@davidcrocker9806]

It's also when people could spell words and write sentences.

[@michaellicavoli3921]

Where is the king?

[@shumyinghon]

a time when GB had colonies and respect from all over..

[@grahamhill2267]

No short arses or beer guts to be seen!

[@MikeHarland-m2g]

You have obviously not watched the American marching bands.

[@Panda-gs5lt]

A couple of things I notice … the drill was much snappier and crisp than it is today … there is no emphasis on bringing the knee up high and slamming the foot down … when marching the arms are less stiff and follow a more comfortable swing than the overemphasized, straight arm, shoulder high of today … also that was a time when height restrictions in the Guards were in place and it shows as a much nicer effect of even ranks rather than the hodgepodge of today. One cannot forget the slimmer profile of the Guards compared to today either. They were dam fine back then.

[@keijomattinen5447]

Is there any height restrictions today?

[@Panda-gs5lt]

@@keijomattinen5447 … I don’t think so

[@stevenbond8251]

The world has gone backward. Australia.

[@johnsakelaris7]

More money spent toward machine guns, tanks, and airplanes and less money toward that all that massive headgear might have been wise.

[@belleriffraff]

what's an "airplane"? Well no one really expected a mustachioed little ex corporal from Europe to start another war did they? And the USA was woefully under armed during the same time, so stop whinging....

[@MrFregger]

@@belleriffraff Hadn't England declared war on Germany?

[@johnc2438]

Not in 1933!@@MrFregger

[@MrFregger]

@@johnc2438 1939 ✌️

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Yes , the cost of some hats was the biggest issue in re armament 😂😂😂 peak youtube drivel.

[@flakboss1712]

Dignity, respect and discipline. All this has been destroyed by the utter failiure of so called liberal democracy over the past 50 years.

[@mercomania]

Unequalled in the world? say´s who?

[@dulls8475]

Says the worlds largest empire.

[@mongolike513]

No wonder the natives surrendered.

[@benlockett8324]

Except for the German army of course, which was more focused on building 1,000s of tanks and aircraft than marching around a square.

[@CoiboiXD]

Still lost the war, L

[@Bruce-1956]

​@@CoiboiXDthanks to the Yanks.

[@CoiboiXD]

@@Bruce-1956 it was under the efforts of the United Nations. 🇺🇳🇷🇺🇬🇧🇺🇲🇫🇷🇹🇼

[@Bruce-1956]

@@CoiboiXD in theory, without the Yanks no victory in the west.

[@CoiboiXD]

@@Bruce-1956 and the east (Asia with Japan)

[@daddybob6096]

Great stuff and all white British soldiers, such pride. Woe is me, what has happened to the British people, it's not the same. Robert. NZ Veteran. (Of Scottish Heritage). Wellington NZ.

[@dulls8475]

We have had many coloured soldiers who have been magnificent as well. Even in that era they were serving.