First World War - Lt. Honey VC, DCM, MM.

Lieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, VC DCM MM was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Empire forces, during the First World War.

[@Gord19]

Thanks for sharing Steve ,Samuel Honey is a Canadian war hero! My Great Uncle served with him in the 78th battalion. Private Charles Oddsson 294266 He died August 8th 1918 age 18 . I was fortunate to visit his grave site in Caix France on the 100 year of the battle of Amiens .Greetings from Vancouver Canada.

[@StevenUpton14-18]

Thank you for watching and sharing your family story. We will remember them.

[@davidfirth2932]

The accolade ‘hero’ is given far too often now. This man was a real hero!

[@StevenUpton14-18]

Thank you for watching. He certainly was. Also, he was only 23 when he died.

[@lifeinthe5-069]

Even after all this time this war, these places and the people buried in the cemeteries mean so much, particularly to the families. I witnessed this first hand during my only trip to the battlefields in 2014. I was at the Railway Dugouts Cemetery resting in the entry arch when a guide brought a couple thru, took them to a grave and left them there. He told me they were making the very first visit of any family member to the grave of their Australian great uncle. They were extremely emotional, as if it he had been killed recently. Your films over the battlefields, visits to displays, the showing the resting places and giving detailed information is informational for me (and I am grateful) but I feel they might be transformational for a family of a fallen soldier, even after all this time. Patty USA

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[@Paleoman]

I can't begin to imagine what he faced in order to earn such recognition for gallantry. I get chills every time I view these videos showing the actual areas where such carnage took place. The numbers are almost unbelievable of how many fell. Thank you for honoring their memories. Hopefully history will never repeat itself.

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[@roblambert1196]

This gentleman has lineage to my unit and is honoured ! Lest we forget!

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[@clive.r1414]

Thank you Steven for this piece about Lieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, VC DCM MM.

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[@wallyhaskett6737]

Another hero, Thanks so much Steve for information in this video. Look forward to many more. This work you are doing is so important thank you so much.

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[@dougthomas1582]

Freedom is not free. God Bless Lt. Honey, and his sacrifice on the alter of freedom will never be forgotten.

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[@joepalooka2145]

Hello again Steven---- as one of the dedicated fans of your wonderful videos, I look forward to the latest. You've taught me so much about the Western Front, which I have never visited but always wanted to. I realize you have a long list of requests, but could you consider at some point----- if you have not done so already ----- a video about the air war over the battlefields? Your drone gives us a marvelous birds-eye view that the fighting pilots of the time would have had. It would be extremely interesting to see where Baron von Richtofen was shut down, etc. and where other aces like Billy Barker actually flew and fought. Also the location of airfields on both sides of the lines. Once again, many thanks and keep up the great work.

[@StevenUpton14-18]

Thank you for watching. Regarding the air war there's not much to film. I went to the site of the airfield at Abele and nothing remains other than the small CWGC cemetery.

[@joepalooka2145]

Great video about a Canadian hero. Mr. Upton---- any chance you could do a drone video on the Battle of the Canal du Nord, where Lt. Honey won his VC? Eleven other Victoria Crosses were awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers. This battle isn't as well known as many others.

[@StevenUpton14-18]

I could, but it will have to join a long list. In January I am doing the Bellewaarde ridge at Hooge near Ypres.

[@dervolkstribun6240]

Bravery far beyond any measure of duty, thats the stuff the VC is made of. You found those skills on all sides, no matter Croix de guerre, Pour la merite or medal of honor and of course the VC. Lets honor our fallen by rememberance and gratitudy for their deeds. They died so we may live.

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[@Jin-Ro]

A gallant hero. Can I also pay respects to Lance Corporal Jamie Webb, who served with my son, and was killed in Aghanistan, 26th March 2013. Died when a UGL hit the mess tent during a Taliban attack. RIP Jamie.

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[@sugarkane4830]

Lest we forget.

[@patrickbrink7859]

Wow, speechless.

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[@tombrydson781]

Lest we forget never

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[@louisgunn]

hero's all,, was this chap commissioned from the ranks? officers I believe got a MC,, rankers the MM

[@StevenUpton14-18]

Thank you for watching. Both the DCM and MM were only awarded to other ranks, not officers.

[@The_JEB]

Hi Steven, love the videos. Do you have plans on visiting Flanders Fields?

[@StevenUpton14-18]

Thank you for watching. I will be at Hooge in January 2020. I have already done some filming of the southern part of the Ypres salient.

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank - you . ( 2024 / Mar / 25 )

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[@barryolaith]

I remember standing in a small Commonwealth War Grave cemetery near Ypres a few years ago and overhearing an English teacher tell his group of boys gathered around a headstone about the daring deeds that won the young occupant of the grave a posthumous VC. From then on I began to question the motivation of an education system that presents these individuals as role models and an example of ultimate achievement. I think it is an anachronism, and perhaps worse. Remember, the nearby New Menin Gate was described by Sassoon as a "sepulchre of crime", which chimes well with Harry Patch's judgement on the battles around that area as "nothing more than legalised mass murder". Everything I have read or heard (and I was lucky enough to meet veterans of The Great War) tells me that most men in the field, even junior officers, were soon divested of any notions of a higher cause and fought for each other, not King and country or God, and became pretty bitter and cynical about their 'superiors' in the 'establishment'. It is that same establishment today that uses examples such as this brave man as a recruiting sergeant in order to perpetuate the hierarchy and privileges enjoyed by a section of society and some institutions while dressing it up as 'remembering them'. I don't mean you Steven, the details of military history are endlessly interesting and you are a master at unearthing and recounting them.

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[@brusselssprouts560]

I bow in humility to him and his fellow heroes. I am British, but also feel a part Canadian.

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