Moving Final Tributes From The Battle of the Somme | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |

They only had a few words to express their loss, and leave a permanent memorial to their loved ones, but the personal inscriptions leave a message for future generations to come.
Here we focus on some of the most moving final tributes from those who died during the Battle of the Somme.
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[@paulroberts6687]

"Far from the home of his childhood, sleeping his last long goodbye". "My only son." "My boy." I admit I cried.

[@johnallen7807]

We must never forget their sacrifice! RIP to all who died or were injured.

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

Heartbreaking. It's so easy to look at the casualties as just numbers, but they were people. Husbands, brothers, sons, fathers....

[@ShaunWilliams-i3o]

I'm here visiting my dads great grandfathers grave. He and his 4 brothers all sent to their deaths and 2 of them had pregnant wives and never even got to hold their first born. That's unthinkable

[@Иосиф-ч7э]

Thank you CWGC. This kind of films lets us remember that war is fought by persons and each one of them is a story.

[@andreaburton576]

THIS MADE ME CRY SO MANY MEN DEID AND I THINK TO MY MYSELF WHY THEY NEVER GOT TO LIVE THERE LIVES AND WE JUST TAKE OUR LIVES FOR GRANTED SO REST IN PEACE YOU DID GOOD GOD BLESS YOU ONE AND ALL WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[@chrismaskell5702]

WE Will Remember them, 🌹🌹🌹🙂🌹🏳️

[@philipnorris6542]

At the going down of the Sun and in the morning we will remember them.

[@FCBanes]

What an amazing combination of sad, poignant & uplifting epitaphs these are. Bravo to the CWGC for this video tribute. We will remember them.

[@stuartauld3193]

Never ever forget what they went through.

[@shondra6]

This brings tears. So many young people lost to us. My beautiful grand uncle signed up at age 19 so his older brother Alf said if my brother goes so do I . Alf returned , his baby brother was lost at broodsiende 4th October 1917. . No known grave , presumed killed. Lest we forget . 🙏

[@idleonlooker1078]

He, like all the other's now sleep in peace, bathed in God's light and love. Lest we forget. 😔

[@idleonlooker1078]

Though WWI ended 102years ago, you can still feel through these simple, but powerful, epitaphs the family's sorrow and pain - undiminished - to the present day. Lest we forget!! 😔

[@johnpage4581]

If that didnt bring a tear to your eye then nothing will.RIP to all to all those brave souls.

[@jessesands4099]

Truly Heartbreaking stuff! You feel the sadness of their loved ones losses!😟😢😔🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦

[@chrismaskell5702]

Me too I feel sad now makes me feel saddest inside it just wants to make me cry who for all those brave soldiers who fought and died for our freedom

[@CarlAshcroft-mb9pp]

Thank you.❤ I'm so glad you can't see what our politicians have done to the counrty you fought for so valliantly. You sacrifice will be remembered forever. Rest in peace brave ones.🇬🇧

[@DAH55100]

These family tributes do so much to connect us to the deeper meaning of sacrifice and loss. The gulf of time disappears as you feel and identify with the pain of their loved ones.

[@colfer222]

Anyone else struck by how handsome they all were?...r.i.p.

[@kylehutchinson2729]

Lest we forget, they will always be remembered for years to come

[@jessesands4099]

Marvellous memories of fallen Soldiers eternally remembered by their loved ones!😟😢😔💂🤠🇬🇧🇦🇺

[@edwardpate6128]

So easy to see why this was referred to as the "Lost Generation". How sad and tragic that just over 20 years later another world war would ravage the same battlefields.

[@james8156]

God Bless these brave men🙏🏻❤️

[@RomanOf2002]

Good honest young men who lost their lives against brother nations. May we never fight each other again. How the world needed them..

[@jamesbrook16]

We read many of the inscriptions on the headstones. Many are very poignant. All sad, some uplifting.

[@lex1945]

We will remember them...

[@molecatcher3383]

At least the pain of the families, who had those moving comments written for their lost loved ones, is over. After more than 100 years, they are now all re-united.

[@burkey548]

THIS IS SO BRILLIANT XXXXXX

[@kellyhill430]

So much optimism and hope in their eyes...only to have that hope and optimism dashed in an instant and their whole future taken away. Its heartbreaking

[@jammyscouser2583]

There's an ozzie grave at Walkers ridge cemetery in Gallipoli - "His last words were 'Goodbye cobber, God bless you'"

[@chrismaskell5702]

Rest in peace to all those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom they shall not grow old as we are left grow old age not weary them nor years condemn at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them Lest we forget 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@jayjeetkataria8387]

rest in peace

[@edwardpate6128]

Someday we shall understand. Well sadly it is over 100 years later and we still don't.

[@Andys-wanderings]

Wouldn't it be interesting that when people deem someone's work worthy of a 'thumbs down' that they should have to explain in 140 characters why they have chosen to do this? Because I would like to try and understand them. At the moment I struggle to do this.

[@zacjames3572]

"Have you news of my boy Jack?” Not this tide. "When d'you think that he'll come back?" Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. "Has any one else had word of him?" Not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. "Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?" None this tide, Nor any tide, Except he did not shame his kind- Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide. Then hold your head up all the more, This tide, And every tide; Because he was the son you bore, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!”

[@wearsideexile6616]

Heartbreaking

[@karlnijhof9386]

R.I.P mijn helden . GOD is nu uw lijder

[@polydueres]

Thank you....

[@edmcconnell2105]

They are always missed by those that love FREEDOM ❗

[@camperp195]

I really have no words watching this,im struggling to type,god rest them all 😔

[@Dave9thesnob]

I couldn't agree more.

[@Dave9thesnob]

W.E Dailey age 16 killed on Somme your whole life was ahead of you

[@SageHarrison-p8i]

Anyone else struck by how handsome they all were?...r.i.p.. R.I.P mijn helden .GOD is nu uw lijder.

[@MrBernt1968]

Heartbreaking 😪

[@bonnieshelswell4203]

😢❤️sad so many !

[@Connect_with_Yourself]

😭😭😭😭

[@H4CK61]

Did he die in vain.. That Broke my heart reading that.

[@Mutrino]

What a waste of life. It makes me sick thinking about it. How many Albert Einsteins or Isaac Newtons did we miss out on because of this senseless slaughter.

[@Dave9thesnob]

@Catherine Heridis This statement is pure ignorance Albert Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb . Beside did you want Nazi Germany to develop the atomic bomb.

[@ms-terious]

@Ekaterina The Greek so mass energy equivalence, an equation that provides the key to understanding the most basic natural processes of the universe, an understanding in which we take advantage of today via technology like PET scanners, radiocarbon dating.....SMOKE DETECTORS, the basis of the study of kinematics, is proof that Einstein is 'evil' because it also gave use a greater understanding of how things go 'boom'? So the fact that it was first published in 1905 has no bearing on your ascertain? Or the fact that otto hahn actually discovered nuclear fission in 1938 or that the manhattan project started in 1941 and Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb was more instrumental in its creation than Einstein? You're a fucking moron.

[@jamesbrook16]

Meanwhile Hitler survived the First World War…

[@charleslommens173]

Can anyone name this piece of music? Thank you.

[@davesap]

Senility Mel Croucher

[@charleslommens173]

@@davesap Thank you so much!

[@anthonyeaton5153]

Michael Lewis the last sentence of you comment is stating the ‘Bleeding obvious’ Is your point another whinge. By the way Britain provided the most troops and suffered the most casualties both by % of population and % of troops in combat. Not The Aussies, not the Kiwis or the Canadians.

[@shahsojib9595]

He who died in the battle will not come again .

[@DBshoes2164]

Does anyone know what this music is?

[@davesap]

the music is senility by mel croucher

[@alexamerling79]

Such a waste of life

[@Thirdfish]

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

[@lew832]

A disgraceful waste of young men's lives. If it had not been for our allies help, Britain would have lost WW1 and 2.

[@Purrytat49]

What a waste, a tragedy for both sides. I believe in a justified war but this war was senseless

[@elisabethhubert300]

Never again !

[@jimmorgan5612]

For what?