Last Man Standing Australian Boer War Anzac Light Horse Veteran

[@noislamonazisdotcom9888]

So many wars and he still tried to get into the ww2 at 60. RESPECT!

[@tonysfossickingadventure.8124]

My grand father went to the Boer war in the 3rd NSW lancers, he was in the 1st Australian light horse regiment during WW1, at the age of 65 he put down his age so he could enlist in the civil defense during WW2, they were most definitely tough guys from those times, my grandfather died in 1946, 20 years before I was born, I often wish I could have talked with him when I was growing up,

[@bullterror5]

Bless his cotton socks 💜

[@bullterror5]

How handsome was he when he was young!

[@actually_a_circle]

He got hit in the head with a sword and still tried to fight the nazis, RESPECT

[@actually_a_circle]

@@tonysfossickingadventure.8124 my grandfather (b. 1924) knew two men who enlisted with the british to go over and fight zulus and Boers, and they where ancient back then so I'll never get to talk to any of them, shame

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

Hes so old he still has a slight trace of the original English accent of the first white settlers to Australia.

[@darkstarr2321]

I thought I could detect an English accent

[@newbleppmore7855]

i already detect an English accent in most australian voices i hear

[@TimRosenburg]

There was huge amounts of English migration well ibto the 1950s

[@ScreenHackTV]

All Australians sounded British prior to around 1960 . Watch some old interviews from news stations and you'll see

[@bonza167]

as a kid and young man, I can still remember my Aussie born grandmother born in 1882 and her older sisters, the eldest being born 1872 living to ripe old ages well into their 90's. they also had Australian born parents. they didn't have an English accent at all but what maybe called an educated Australian accent similar to Pop's

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Crickey! - 108 years old and still a pipe smoker! Much respect for this splendid old gentleman. I’m a serving infantry officer in the Hellenic Army. Many years ago, I commanded an Evzone Honour Guard detachment during the annual ANZAC Day ceremonies on the island of Crete. The event honours our Aussie and Kiwi comrades who fell in defence of Greek freedom in the Battle of Crete in 1941. I was then privileged to have met many Australian and New Zealander veterans of the Battle who had come to Greece at the invitation of the Hellenic Armed Forces to be honoured for their heroic defence of the island. Most of the veterans were then in their eighties; they were all fine old soldiers with many wonderful stories to tell, and I kept in touch with some of them for a good many years. In seeing this story I was very touched, and reminded of my good friends, who have all long since passed on... The Greek people have a special place in their hearts for these brave men - and for our British and other Commonwealth Allies - for their service to our country. Each year the memory of the ANZACS and their heroic defence of Greece continues to be solemnly honoured: Requiescant Omnes In Pace. On behalf of the Hellenic Army, I send my fraternal greetings and perennial gratitude to the people of Australia and New Zealand! 🇦🇺🇬🇷🇳🇿

[@Kysushanz]

Kind regards to you from a Retired Infantry Company Commander RNZIR. The battle of Crete was a near won thing! At least after that Hitler never committed paratroops again! I have heard of the bond forged in the defence of Crete between Creek and Kiwi and it is wonderful to see that even after so many years, that comradery is still there. Now we watch with apprehension the tension between Greece and Turkey - sad, so sad. God Bless you all.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Donald Duck - Thanks, mate! Yes, the bonds of friendship forged in adversity remain strong. True, the climate is tense; as a famous WWII poster declares, “Greece fights on...”. Warmest regards back to you and your countrymen!

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

Provide us with free rexina and we will come over and help defend Greece again.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

President Xi Jinping's pox doctor - No worries, mate; you can have all the retsina you want; plus ouzo, tsipouro, raki, Metaxa, all the distilled spirits, beer, and vino you can manage. 🙂

[@petergraves2085]

ευχαριστώ for your thoughtful contribution, kyrios Philotheates

[@shootermcdabbin5876]

My great grandfather was a 1st world war veteran and I used to sit on his porch with him while he smoked his pipe and my mother of course always gave me bible lessons, well one day we’re sitting there and he said “son, when I’m gone, just know I love ya” (he was 109 years old at this point and not doing so well and he knew his time was soon) so I said “papaw, I will see you again in heaven” and he said “son, if you see me, you ain’t in heaven” the war never left him. He recalled stabbing a young German “boy” about 17 right in the eye and how he wished the boy would’ve just given up. My great grandfather Roy John Barker, May he Rest In Peace. Wherever he is.

[@metricpilot7612]

Thank you for his service!!🙏🙏

[@videochemist]

Poor Winky, never made it to 18.

[@ememe1412]

@@themessenger5868 I don't think the boys were hoodwinked in WW1. A lot flocked to sign up. Some as young as 13 and were refused multiple times but eventually found the way. Yes, a lot also felt the social pressure also but not even remotely most. A lot also refused combatant roles as conscientious objectors and yet still signed up serving as unarmed medics and in logistics. Nobody at that point foresaw the absolute carnage of a fully mechanised war. Everyone thought that one army would be defeated and driven back and peace by 1915. Nobody imagined that machine guns would facilitate the stalemate of trenches and end of the horse cavalry era. Commanders were as inept to the new reality of warfare. The result was the first real war of attrition where men's lives were 'sacrificed' to drain the enemy's resources. As for heaven, God judges all by his will. He brought about, through the wickedness of men, the calamity of the world wars and other wars. It is a sin to give God some form of reasoning to salve the conscience for the events of these world, such as 'criterias' in judgement (it is in neither Scripture or Holy Tradition). If by His wisdom he condemns all to hell or non existence, His will be done. The first law is to love God above all. This includes family and friends as by the example of Jacob...

[@Caroline.123]

Disgusting

[@themessenger5868]

@kieran carpenter He was a soldier, and he killed another 'Soldier'...you're an idiot ! "Kraut ?" Your disrespecting the German soldier with your derogatory comment and your virtue signalling bullshit has blinded you to your own bigotry.

[@MrPotatoesLatkie]

Wow! 108 years old in 1988. I would have loved to speak with him. It would be very interesting to understand the thinking and, attitudes of someone from that time.

[@WorkingforGODglobal]

MrPatatoes.... I'll tell you all about the 2nd Boer War

[@jacksp1787]

@@WorkingforGODglobal Are you a jihadist? 'cuz that's ISIS's goal, too. But you're gonna claim that your faith is the only correct one, which is what ISIS [and all the other religio-cults] claims as well. Y'all can both stuff yer religions and meet each other in Hell.

[@garyodriscoll7988]

Working for God GLOBALLY there is a podcast on the 2nd Anglo Boer War, by Des Latham. Have you listened? If so, what are your opinions on it. Where can we find a good account of that war? Tired of hearing the British account.

[@FreshWholeMilk]

It was an evil war of aggression orchestrated by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, Lord Rothschild and their cronies

[@springbokkie_center9399]

i don't like the brits for what they did in the boer war to the little kids and women and so personaly i think the first and second world wars were karma for the brits

[@seanhuds229]

The things that man seen in his life. What an old gentleman. Rest in peace sir, you've worked bloody hard.

[@chrisholland7367]

A soldier of the "old Queen "Victoria. The commonwealth salutes you.

[@cubasedoos]

We shot you to shit..pity we didn't want to..you asked for it..we did it..from a Boer's great grandson

[@ralphraffles1394]

Glen Blignaut surrendered, then served the King in ww1 and ww2.except die hard Boerswho supported Hitler and sabotaged S. Africa in ww2.

[@buckbumble]

@Roman von Ungern Sternberg Yeah, Africa came out of everything pretty solid though didn’t they?

[@hanoitripper1809]

@@cubasedoos after a change in tactics by the commonwealth the boors got shot to shit by the colonials

[@ArnoBach]

@@hanoitripper1809 Sonny boy, wake up! 1. Boers, 2. A handful of civilians, including old people and children shot and decimated a trained military empire!! There is a reason they call it black week! I would not go as far as calling rape, murder, theft, abuse, forced detainment and starvation "tactics"! I do not know if you are dumb or just asleep, but I do know there is no cure for your kind of ailment...

[@siyamanci2596]

Wow. This man survived the Anglo Boer war, First World War, Second World War and Cold War? That would be the interesting man to speak to.

[@cubasedoos]

You sure have a lot of innuendo's hahahha

[@Vicentemetalero]

Yeah but He didn't fought on ww2 or cold war dude wtf

[@terryaboyce]

@@Vicentemetalero if you read it, survived the war's not fought in all the wars

[@Doug-vo1xm]

The man is a legend.

[@pekka1900]

Man I don't know.. Wait till you could talk to me. I survived once a whole afternoon when the power went down.

[@Ghull17]

I can assure you his story is correct as he was my great,great uncle.

[@DirtTherapyDownUnder]

Where is he buried mate , would really like to lay some flowers on his grave to let him know he will never be forgotten

[@warwickclark2143]

Dirt Therapy Down Under yes, agreed. Let us know please

[@ssssSTopmotion]

Wow

[@grose24]

@Blummer 82 shut the fuck up

[@aviator6935]

TheClassyMustache well said

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

Once upon a time, the entire continent consisted of men like "Pop" Williams. Vale.

[@rhysnichols8608]

Better men than today for the most part. It is difficult in this decadent environment to be masculine, but I’m trying ‘n

[@jroch41]

Now we've been invaded by 3rd world trash brought in by our own governments :-(

[@orsondy]

@@jroch41 everyone feels so bad for shut the fuck up with your identity politics

[@starcorpvncj]

Right. Now it's run by rabid feminists, soy boys, transvestites, and climate nutjobs.

[@shanesampson9730]

@@orsondy If you support trash you are trash and need to be purged

[@benjaminbonilla2683]

These young kids with their "Great War"

[@Utiaux]

Best comment here

[@Sotaa_Z]

@@Utiaux Best Comment here

[@honeybadgerstudios21]

All wars are great

[@jamesagwe2981]

@@honeybadgerstudios21 the wars are only good to those whom never experienced it

[@splashafrica]

Originally the phrase great war was often confused for the South African war so actually historically accurate

[@asterixdogmatix1073]

My Great Grandfather served in the Colonial Lighthorse and then the irregular Bushmanland Borderers unit. He was the last President of the New Zealand Boer War Veterans Association before they disbanded. He died in 1977, 2 days short of 98. There is an audio interview with him with NZ Sound Archives talking of his experiences.

[@TIC4848]

Is it available on KZbin? If so, do you have a link?

[@genericbauble9633]

106 and oupa still smoking well and good What a legend

[@trevorbyron9448]

What a blessed age...the life he's seen...the history....a legend at his age. Wish I knew him

[@LesterMoore]

Sadly we will never read a book on his life. His memories. Tragic.

[@mtango9985]

This is a breed of men long gone and will be forever missed! Shame what men are turning into today.

[@newbleppmore7855]

its a shame of society not the men themselves, we don't raise ourselves

[@eddt430]

@@newbleppmore7855 Couldn't agree more. Social media and modern world bollocks.

[@TheMelorino]

didnt he literally commit a war crime?

[@fanatamon]

Yeah not all of us.

[@Jamie.Richards]

It's easy to romanticise and ignore the reality of being a 'real' man in the 20th century. My grandfather lived his life in an unhappy marriage moving from one manual job to the next and smothering his depression after he left the army. He would have been healthier and happier if he were able to speak about his feelings and express himself like men of today can. Go back a generation before that and teenage boys had to stand in a sodden trench until their feet rot, they lost a limb, lost their minds or bled to death after being shot by another working class boy who, in another life, may have been their friend.

[@Brace67]

When this brave old soldier heard Edward Woodward singing "The Soldiers of the Queen" from the movie Breaker Morant he began crying, perhaps the only thing that could break his tough old exterior as he remembers the past glories. The video isn't about politics or who was right or wrong in a war fought nearly 120 years ago. Instead it's about the last man standing from a bygone era of empire and someone who did his duty for queen and country.

[@ranidudeBRUH]

almost made me cry

[@hanoitripper1809]

Not past glories, but past comrades and friends long gone.

[@largemarge1603]

The fallacy of 'duty' seems to get a lot of good people killed... 'in service' to bureaucrats.

[@Brace67]

@@largemarge1603Unfortunately it is the way of the world. Duty, Honor, Country.

[@kingofthejungle3833]

YEP, and that's the whole point to ANZAC Day, not to celebrate what happened, simply acknowledging that it did, and those who were involved, I think "enemy soldiers who have immigrated here are allowed to march as well.

[@poppaleggansquat3640]

What a guy, what a story, tried to go to WWII at 60 years of age! Legendary, Australia should be proud of him

[@rwearing82]

It's crazy that some one alive in victorian times could still be alive when phones cars and colour televisions were around.

[@j0nnyism]

Colour film dates back to Victorian times. And the telegraph isn’t that much different to old phone technology

[@SomeHarbourBastard]

That’s nothing. There was a game show in the 50s where one of the guests was the last living person who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

[@Catubrannos]

Queen Victoria died in 1901. Televisions as we know them started appearing 30 years later. Colour technology was around early on but took longer to become cost effective in a home tv. The telephone was invented a few years before Queen Victoria died. So anyone living in the 1950s who were in their 50s were born in the Victorian era and saw the things mentioned above, hardly amazing. The development in aircraft is amazing as is personal electronics. I never thought when I was a kid that one day I could walk through the house with a book sized computer watching a movie, that I could use the same thing to talk to people and see them on the other side of the world. Even ten years ago I wouldn't have thought that drone technology and gopro cameras would have such an impact on how we see the world.

[@buyerofsorts]

@@SomeHarbourBastard Yep! I saw that. Pretty amazing! Did you see the KZbin video showing the rebels from the civil war doing their rebel yell? It was filmed in the 1920's and all these guys were about 90 years old. Freaking amazing we get to hear actual civil war soldiers do the rebel yell!

[@SomeHarbourBastard]

@@buyerofsorts Aye. It's just one of those things you know you'll never see, and yet, there it is.

[@cluxseltoot]

What a wonderful old man - lucid, articulate and spirited.

[@johanvandersandt8904]

Rest easy soldier. You earned your rest and our respect.

[@lowiq3409]

Geen respek. Hy het in n oorlog van aggressie kom veg ten einde twee onafhanklike lande in te neem. En hy het dit vrywillig gedoen.

[@pa5287]

@@lowiq3409 typical knob understand this english mate .....fuck you

[@lollius88]

@@lowiq3409 Speak English, barbarian

[@julianrandall2824]

​@@lowiq3409Look at your country now 😂

[@kotahurt]

god i cry i every time i see the poor old bugger, he reminds me of my father, he was born in 1908

[@sarahmulqueen9014]

how old are you?

[@zaebos0079]

@@sarahmulqueen9014 probably about 70 - 90 tho I would say closer to 70

[@marvinwatkins8889]

Were we all to live as long as this fine veteran! What a role model for now and all time. AND he still smoked at 108!

[@MrHammerman97]

This is the era i would have loved to be in, Hard times with strong brothers, not easy times with no brothers.

[@escole48]

This man must have lived an amazing life. Thanks for showing. An outstanding Anzac.

[@damagecase3271]

An absolute legend, RIP old digger you deserve nothing less

[@QLDwaylander]

They dont make them like that anymore!!

[@NathanF11989]

A lovely video that I like to return to every now and then. Just imagine all the changes that this gentleman witnessed from 1880 to 1988. Still doing things his way at the age of 108 and bearing the limitations of great age with dignity. RIP Pop and thank you for your service and spirit.

[@434551]

Lest we forget! Reminds me of the stories of Pop Beauchamp and his service of the empire, and all humanity later. From Canada

[@JackCooper243]

He looks like someone from that era as well. I’m glad we have interviews like this that we can still watch today

[@blairmccallum1111]

What a great man. He is everything that is great about the commonwealth and the bonds that bind us. Its why I cannot stand those who want to tear down the very things that are worth defending. I'm a Scot, proud to be British and proud of everything that the commonwealth stood up for, when the chips were down for real. Why we are still standing together today. I'm lucky to have stood shoulder to shoulder at Villers Bretonneux with Australians, Messines Park with New Zealanders, Delville Wood with South Africans, Beaumont Hamel with Canadians and Newfoundlanders, Nueve Chapel with Indians and Gurkhas, With Welsh Friends at Mametz Wood, Irish pals at Ulster Tower, and chatted with English mates at every site where my own countrymen and family fought and fell. To stand looking out over the wet muddy fields of Passchendaele with freezing low lying mist on a dark Winters morning, you can almost hear the far away skirl of the pipes, and all the accents mixing together. They will never be forgotten. Especially with Edward Woodward and Soldiers of the Queen. What a man was Pop.

[@jeffreyestes200]

Sort of a shame what's become of the UK.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

Yes the British gave the world the concept and practise of the Concentration Camp from the Boer War makes one so proud

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

@@rajivmurkejee7498 Whilst India has enslaved its people in a caste system, (that excludes Dalits) for nearly 5000 years.

[@lowiq3409]

You will find very few Boer names that fought at Delville Wood. They didn't fight for the English.

[@lowiq3409]

@@rajivmurkejee7498 you know your history Rajiv, from a Boer

[@Alex462047]

I can remember veterans of the First War when I was very young. They were very elderly men, mostly wheelchair-bound, who turned up every year to the ANZAC Day parades. I also remember talking in quite lively fashion with my Great Uncle, who flew Halifax bombers in the war. He happily told his stories, treated me like I was grown up. Of course, they are all gone now, these men of men, but it has been a rare privilege to know them.

[@thepuppylover8595]

I can remember world war 1 veterans my great great uncle was in Gallipoli

[@Alex462047]

@@thepuppylover8595 Yes, my great-grandfather was there too, managed to get in the way of something. He came home with a huge scar down the right side of his face, having gone on to serve in France. Lovely man, so I'm told, never met him, he never spoke about the war or what happened to him.

[@MrAM4D3U5]

I had to do a rewind when he said he was SIXTY at the time of WWII. Incredible.

[@willmears1111]

Fantastic person and soldier. Thank you for your service. You did us all proud. A Veteran

[@jameswright6886]

My grand father was an australian who rode with the boers against the brits,he was a sniper and specialized in shooting officers,it was like shooting sitting ducks as they were on horses while the men walked.

[@YSLRD]

We respect the soldier, not always the cause. In the U.S. , we have fought pointless wars for 70 years. The men on the ground are still heroes.

[@splashafrica]

Fighting to maintain independence is as noble a cause as any I have no knowledge of Australians fighting for SA I thought it was only the South African English and the Americans who fought against there own in this war

[@davethorstry6700]

@@splashafrica He was a true man.

[@coreytaylor447]

now that is a man, plane and simple. living to see so much and doing so many things in his life.

[@davethorstry6700]

so now psychopaths are men, a murder is a murderer.

[@1915oz]

Soldiers of the Queen but is also known as Soldiers of the King (depending on gender of who sits on the throne). The song was used as a musical theme on the Australian Boer Movie 'Breaker Morant' thus the connection.

[@Wadaryu1000]

But are NEVER forgotten. Lest we forget Mr Williams Sir. Thank you.

[@funkyalfonso]

A wonderful book on the Boer War 'Commando' by Denys Reitz is still in print. It gives a vivid account of what the Empire soldiers had to face written by a young Boer who fought as light cavalry.

[@normdunbar2943]

Reitz went on to serve in WW1 as a Lt Col in a British Guards Regiment.

[@lowiq3409]

Us Boers did not have light cavalry as such. Just men on commando.

[@funkyalfonso]

@@lowiq3409 Those words were on the cover of the book but I get your point. Greetings from a rooinek in Canada.

[@davethorstry6700]

@@normdunbar2943 According to some nutter trolls here we all sided with Germany. Except for a few all the South African Generals in both world wars were "Boers".

[@lowiq3409]

@@davethorstry6700 The vast majority of Boers did not support fighting with the English in WW1, Germany was never our enemy, the English were. It would be the same as to ask Jews to fight for Germany 12 years after the end of WW2.

[@benjaamin8]

Now that all the survivors have passed on, I get a terrible feeling that the world is going to repeat history.

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

What, a Boer war 3.0 ?

[@philipg6397]

@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 You might just be right...

[@davethorstry6700]

@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 The Boer war 2 never really ended. But started well in 1948 when the dogs in mangers could not handle it.

[@davethorstry6700]

@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Third Boer war started a long time ago.

[@carnex333]

A life well lived. Outstanding.

[@jarrodnaude3004]

Absolute legend, he came from a time when men were men and they were tough as nails. My great-grandfather was in the 12th light horsemen in WW1, so my upmost respect goes to this man Lest we forget

[@deadlord1209]

My great great grandfather was apart of Company C, 135th Machine-Gun Battalion, 37th Division. He came back scarred very scarred. He never talked about his experiences at all only twice and what little my great grandfather remembered was that he was apart of the Meuse Argonne offensive and that the field medics had to remove both eyes because of a gas attack and cleaned the eyeballs and flushed the socket and then popped them back in during the one of the battles and he kept fighting when he came back he became a alcoholic he died in 1962 Memento Mori Rade Kosanovich

[@jarrodnaude3004]

War is hell that's for sure, and it's sad the government doesn't do that much for veterans suffering from PTSD. And just like your great-grandfather they turn to things like alcohol

[@deadlord1209]

@@jarrodnaude3004 I watched a video on the hand to hand combat from what that video talked about and all the stories ive read basically had a form of shell shock

[@lowiq3409]

My Oupa Grooitjie het teen die Engelse Baklei in die Tweede Engelse oorlog. En hy het verseker nie vir die Engelse gaan baklei in WW1 nie.

[@Erakius323]

Christ, he was born in a very different world. When he was born, breach loaders were new tech. The Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed. The Tsars ruled Russia. He was born under Queen Victoria. He was born before Australia existed as a country. That is crazy. Edit: changed muzzle to breach. Meant to say that breach orders were new tech.

[@et4751]

I know. He's seen a total of 5 monarchs ascend the British throne, (4 annointed and Edward VII who abdicated before coronation) and was born during Queen Victoria reigned. Seen technology change from horse drawn vehciles to automobiles, telephone and rockets to moon. Seen Australia become Federation and independent and the list goes on. Really hope somebody in his family or close friends noted down some of his tales. Amazing. Edit: Edward VIII abdicated...

[@ATaskProductions]

thats a mans mustace not one of those hipster staces

[@Charliechorizo]

That's a man's moustache, not one of those hipster 'staches.

[@CrashandTrash596]

Tough as nails.

[@GeorgeDundalli]

Older than Australia itself, he may have been purely a British Citizen when he fought in that war, because Australia wasn't a country until 1901.

[@Charliechorizo]

To educate you, before 1901, New Holland as it was commonly referred to, was made up of colonies, and the colony of New South Wales was the only one to send soldiers as New South Welshman, not as Brits.

[@GeorgeDundalli]

@@Charliechorizo thanks for educating me Timmy schnitzel, this blokes from Queensland though, so I doubt he would have been calling himself that

[@MiseryDesigns]

Australia was around long before 1901 mind you..

[@alexlanning712]

Great to see the images of the Old Boy, he's got character etched in every line

[@gregorykillen4564]

Veteran of the Boer War and WW1 !!!!! And they didn't take him for WW2 !!!!!! Shame, as his experience would've probably saved lives on Kokoda or Burma ...........The saying "They don't make them like this anymore" couldn't be anymore true !!!!!!!

[@TheScaryTruthCatalyst]

When World War One veterans think you're 'old-school'...

[@ahall1459]

Yes, he lived at small cattle property at Bridgeman downs, a suburb between Aspley and Albany creek, Queensland, Australia.

[@maddyg3208]

His house looks like a Queenslander

[@travispoulsen8958]

Great video, great man! I come back and watch this every year. We will remember them..

[@1teamski]

Simply amazing.

[@stevejames5900]

Started work at my local district hospital in 1992 ... still a few WW1 vets and many WW2 vets coming through the geriatric ward I worked in. One man in particular I will forever remember. His parents came from England to set up a saddliery shop in Newtown (NSW) in 1904 and were soon deep in financial trouble due to a depression of sorts. He remembers his father saying to him saddle you horse and prepare for a 3 day journey as you and I are going to Bathurst to look at setting up business there ... the boy was 6 years old. The Doctors and nurses tried vainly to get old Bob to stop smoking ... a habit he had enjoyed since he was 8 years old and not likely to concern stopping at the age of 98! I would push him out into the sun so he could have a smoke and that I could hear his amazing stories of life in a past age ... his praise of the humble horse were endless and his love of working dogs deep ... recounting stories of the mathematical genius of the red kelpie and the cunning prowess of the red fox. I often did not know when his story was real or a take on my gullibility ... all good. He was old enough to see the "Cooee" boys march through his town and sadly recounted the governmental confiscation of his fathers majestic bloodline of stock horse to feed the demand for army horses ... he said that loss broke his father. I miss that generation ... rough as guts but kind as saints. Australia is worse for their passing. Vale boys ... Valhalla is no doubt happy to take you.

[@moegillyard8118]

what a guy!!! i wish i could understand him

[@Jesse-B]

He passed three months later, 28/05/1880 - 10/07/1988

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

RIP

[@justgjt]

What a bloody legend ! Good onya Pop. Lest We Forget

[@normdunbar2943]

I'm an English ex infantry corporal, and may I say, this bloke, this true hero, is a typical Aussie Squaddie. They are the salt of the earth and hard as nails, god bless you all mates.

[@SamhainBe]

We must never forget!

[@Charliechorizo]

...the British led horrors of the Boer War whereby they invented concentration camps?

[@kayesuga9371]

what a great Australian so pleased the Boer War Memorial is finally completed in Canberra it pays tribute to fine Australians like Pop Williams LEST WE FORGET

[@Shack01]

A South african and descended from distinguished line of Boer war heroes.. I would love to see the memorial... thank you Australia for not brandishing the Boers what the rest of world does

[@davethorstry6700]

@mcchickenz Really? Well what we always knew about UK being racist has come out now straight from the harry horse's mouth last night!

[@lowiq3409]

They must just add a note that it was a war of aggression against two independent nations.

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

What a legend. Nothing but respect.

[@tanacz5505]

Thank you sir.

[@Paisly17]

Onya Digger, we’re here because of you👍

[@life4fireforever273]

This should have been included in the documentary Australians at War

[@jimdale6001]

Bloody hell! What a bloke.

[@Westyrulz]

We don't make them like this old bloke anymore.Can you imagine if we end up in another war with this current generation.There are no safe-spaces on a battlefield my little lovelies.

[@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756]

a transgender army

[@Westyrulz]

@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Might be the go?We can put them where the fighting is the most fiercest.

[@haroldburrows4770]

Wow, this is great. He even knew the Breaker

[@Reaper4367]

Deepest respect Sir!

[@simonhennigan7636]

What an Aussie legend. They don't make 'em like Pop Williams any more.

[@brianingarfill1773]

Great piece of reporting!!! thanks for creating the memories

[@newbleppmore7855]

the old people of old the old days seem healthier than modern old people

[@westaussie965]

You unbelievably lucky old man. Imagine how he must’ve felt being the last? How bloody sad😢😢😢

[@Thornus_______]

God Bless your old soul Pop Williams

[@stephen9869]

He would be 138 years old today

[@skylinecams7851]

passed away 2 months after this was filmed sadly

[@christophrodig5738]

I feel sorry, for his old warrior. God May help him, o spend his days in peace.

[@michaellaurence9966]

Respect to you Sir 🇬🇧

[@rbf100]

The Boers were formidable opponents and skillful marksmen. Canadians also fought in that war. German Kaiser meddled in it by supplying arms to the Boers, Mausers, etc. Saw these captured rifles in a visit to U.K. many years ago.

[@thetrashmaster1352]

rbf100 the second Boer war was also the first war Australia as a country took part in (Australia became a country in 1901)

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Thieves are not entitled to walk over anyone.

[@lowiq3409]

The Kaiser didn't meddle, he is a heroe for selling us the best of the best. The only ones that meddled were the English and their supporters who meddled in the affairs of two independent nations and took them by force.

[@davethorstry6700]

Kaiser meddling, What then were you dong, Think you had more right? Show how your farmed brain works! Yes, you would have liked for us to have less arms, would have saved you the terrible hiding and embarrassment you suffered. LOL.

[@rbf100]

@@davethorstry6700 That was long before my time. That intervention by the Kaiser led to tensions between Germany and the UK. My countrymen fought for many of the Empire's soldiers against the Boers. Admittedly the internment of Boer family members by the British was atrocious.

[@timmo491]

Tough bloke just like Morant. All the best from England mate.

[@yellowpete79]

are you slow? this video is over 20 yrs old, he is long dead.

[@timmo491]

@@yellowpete79 no, im not slow.

[@lowiq3409]

Morant was a coward, murdering unarmed people.

[@timmo491]

@@lowiq3409 tough guy doing what he was meant to do, killing cowardly terrorists. I seem to recall the SA forces doing the same with SWAPO guerillas

[@Swoiny]

@@lowiq3409 imagine caring for the other side in a war. Do not blame him for killing them, they’d have killed him if they could.

[@ddoherty5956]

Wanting to enlist at 60 there's an Aussie who loved a scrap🤣🤣🤣

[@NZ.REACTS]

thank u for ur service sir

[@controloz3310]

He’s the true Aussie battler. Seen plenty of war and still smoking at 108. I have beyond respect for this man. Thank you for your service.

[@gaius_enceladus]

Amazing! Wonderful old man! Gee, he would have remembered Queen **Victoria** in his youth! A mountain of respect from me here in New Zealand.

[@gragrn]

Well done Pop. Salute!

[@blumie006]

At ease soldier. rest easy Poppy

[@JG-3-17]

Wow. Thank you, from Oklahoma!

[@1915oz]

1988 in Brisbane. Greg Hunt advised in comments he is a relative..

[@tonyvanderhelm2934]

The Anglo Boer war was instigated by GOLD & DIAMOND hungry politicians. Documents captured by the Boers at Dundee ( Natal ) indicated this, as the documents proved that the British government had invasion plans long before the Jameson incident. The British , being unable to beat the Boers and realizing that ; what they thought would be 'a little 3 week fracas', had bitten off much more than they could handle and asked for and received help from Australia , New Zealand and Canada. The Canadians , New Zealanders and Australians were tough soldiers and many of the Australians matched the Boers horsemanship. Granted the British were excellent soldiers , but their military leaders were not. On the boers side there were brilliant leaders who came to the fore .. such as De Wet , Del la Rey , Botha , Smuts etc. These people were basically all farmers prior to this conflict. In the far Northern Transvaal Breaker Morant was evidently acting on Lord Kitchener's orders to take no prisoners , ( Which Kitchener denied ). Morant was tried ( ?? ) and shot. Since then no Australian soldiers would ever be tried and convicted in a British military court. ( Boer }

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

Those leaders are overrated smuts was a useless commander in namibia and in europe during ww1. The germans with their african auxilliaries almost overran SA in 1915

[@rogerrabbit3591]

@morton christie no it's all true moron

[@rogerrabbit3591]

sorry i meant morton bahhaaha

[@davethorstry6700]

@@TheMrgoodmanners LOL. So as "farmers" without training, uniform, discipline, no logistics, self supplied and armed, outnumbered from to 10 to 15. Fifty thousand at best against a half million soldiers with latest arms and logistics, who kicked the strutting Sandhurst dandys asses till their noses bled were useless. Crawl back under your rock!

[@davethorstry6700]

@@TheMrgoodmanners At least they did not run like rabbits to Dunkirk

[@rickydub6950]

Thanks posting 👍 a legend of a man 👏

[@gravysandwich5010]

I have two relatives who were veterans of both the boer war and ww1, one cut his foot on some glass and had to march 40 miles the next day.

[@russellcampbell9198]

Who could possibly dislike this post? Some, it seems.

[@westaussie965]

Lefturds🤷🏼‍♀️

[@davethorstry6700]

@@westaussie965 you farmed brains lot

[@fojnica2226]

nice story..greetings from croatia

[@infidel202]

Thank you

[@Shack01]

From a proud Boer in South Africa.... U salute you Sir!

[@davethorstry6700]

Boers had in most cases lovely stone houses in Cape Dutch style - with bathrooms. Thatch roofs, not like some countries clapboard houses with rusty corrugated iron roofs (even in the late 20th century). To say as Johnson does that Boers were uncivilized because they (some) spoke broken english with a accent in their OWN country, where he is the invader, is outrageous and typical of their arrogance, especially looking at the background he comes from. I bet he could not even say hello in Afrikaans. According to him murdering morant should ONLY have been reprimanded for murders!!! Next he exposes the truth at about the 2.58 minute mark into this video, when he states “that it was too much trouble carting them about” meaning of course the Boers who had SURRENDERD and were UNARMED!!! There were hundreds of POW camps and town prisons all over the country where they could have been held. His, for whatever reason, attempt to sign up for WW2 at sixty when he knew their was no chance of acceptance makes me wonder why, most probably because the Boer men they were murdering were on average middle aged and many older and even in their eighties as well as young boys as young as eleven/twelve - their bravery in the face of massively outnumbered odds, against savage, barbarous murderers, was and is unequalled. This is most likely why they besmirch their memory.

[@lowiq3409]

Fokker goed gesë!

[@davethorstry6700]

@@lowiq3409Ek kommentaar in Engels vir die dom lafaards! The English could not shape against the Boer, in both first and second wars. In the first part of the second war they were again soundly beaten. They had to run to the colonies/Empire to get more men to save them. A half million trained against fifty thousand FARMERS. LOL. As the English could not do it on their own imagine what would have happened to the Aussies had they come on their own, or even with a combination of the others......wiped out!

[@thetrashmaster1352]

Fun fact, Australia was so eager to fight for queen and country that every colony sent troops before they even joined and became a country. Another fun fact is that Winston Churchill was there and Mahatma Gandhi fought for the British in this war.

[@lowiq3409]

Fun fact: they all fought a war of aggression against independent nations, a war crime.

[@Dryhten1801]

@@lowiq3409 A normal, natural, and common thing that has been present throughout human history until it was deemed innapropriate, partly by British and French UN pressure, after WW2. I don't hear you calling Rome's invasion of Gaul a terrible war crime.

[@smegmalyzer]

Incredible story

[@waynehawkes8688]

We salute you from England mate.

[@bertsrig6153]

They don’t make em like that anymore.

[@pixelpatter01]

If that picture at 3:40 is him he was a handsome looking man, and looks like the guy who was executed with Breaker Morant in the movie. Woodward did a great job in the movie and singing the song.

[@patrickhenry6695]

Those hands, those war hands

[@audiwarpmusic7608]

It’s vitiligo that’s on his hands

[@kingofthejungle3833]

a real man's hands

[@rickwilson5611]

@@audiwarpmusic7608 lol not. Old age and a lack of blood flow

[@ironmind258]

what a legend, what is the song in the start?

[@wsam.1984]

Soldiers of the queen

[@rogerscott8211]

this man is a legened Boer war them WW1 and almost WW2 wow