The Demon Saves the Day: Charles FitzClarence VC and 1st Ypres 1914 | Dr Spencer Jones

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[@MartinMcAvoy]

Shot though both legs but participated in a cricket match four moths later. Marvellous!

[@alpusacademy]

What brave soldiers ❤

[@tc2851]

Excellent presentation of a pivotal moment at that stage of the battle.

[@Dusty9931]

I missed the live stream of this back in February. Glad I got to catch it here. I've been working my way through Spencers books on WW1, currently on "At All Costs - The British Army on the Western Front 1916". All have been awesome reads.

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[@therainbowgulag.]

Excellent presentation.

[@wesharris2559]

Excellent analysis

[@rhysnichols8608]

While Fitz-Clarence certainly deserves a lot of credit for ordering this brave assault and rightly is commended for his perception and initiative in turning this battle around, I don’t see how he deserved the VC when he didn’t actually engage in the fighting, whereas men like Hanky and all the troops he led were the ones in the REAL thick of it bravely attacking against the odds with NO support, if Fitz Clarence got a VC then Hanky damn well deserved one too, as did some of the men under his command.

[@philippevanhove469]

Very intersting! i am going to do a guided tour around te Ypres saliant for my old boyscout group and we well be paying our respects to Fitzclarence and all of those men who faught and gave their life for our free world. Thanks for the interesting information!

[@charlescth]

I would add Edward Spears to that select group that by their actions "saved the British Army"!

[@benlewis2475]

This battle is up there with the Battle of Britain, the Spanish Armada and Trafalgar in terms of Britain being saved by some super leadership and bravery.

[@rhysnichols8608]

I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration, while a defeat at Ypres in 1914 would’ve been a serious blow to the entente war effort, I don’t think it would’ve been war ending nor would it threaten Britain overly much. As long as the navy is ruling the seas it’s doubtful the Germans could’ve done any serious threat to the British isles, and most likely the British would’ve had to fall back losing many of the channel ports but the French would’ve shored up the line and the British army episode dug in further back along north western France. At most it may have won the Germans the war but that wouldn’t really threaten the existence of Britain, most likely the war would’ve carried on for months or probably years just with the Germans having a strategic advantage, if they used this to win it still wouldn’t really harm Britain to the extent it ‘saved the UK’

[@daispy101]

You have to wonder what might have been if FitzClarence had survived.

[@yukikaze3436]

The Book "The Kaiser and His Court" has 30 Oct 14 KW II was at Charleville. 31 Oct 14 He went to Douai then Lille, Roubaix, Tounai and Warneton to see General V Schubert co XIVth Reserve Corps whose corps is engaged with the enemy, mainly the English, in and around Ypres.

[@3vimages471]

Did Hankey get a VC too?

[@morden279]

Parallels between the death of Stonewall Jackson and Fitzclarence.

[@MartinMcAvoy]

The pictures of those old soldiers are fantastic. What men they were!

[@rhysnichols8608]

Was that final trench raid really necessary?? A great shame he got himself killed and risked his men just to take back a useless stretch of trench that wasn’t strategically important just so he could have the joy of leading his regiment into battle and getting one over on the Prussian guard….pick of choose your fights and save yourself for when it’s actually important is the lesson I took here, because Fitz-Clarence would’ve been a great asset had he remained alive. I mean no disrespect and forgive me if I’m wrong but his death seemed unnecessary

[@Mr.Thermistor7228]

idk if anyone else is picking this up but i hear a very high pitched sound frequency coming through whenever he speaks. its sound like silverware clanging against glass every word he speaks into the mic, it is very very faint but i can hear it. if its just me then carry on but if not might want to check your mic equipment just a heads up. absolutely love his presentations as always and this is was no different

[@3vimages471]

I just looked up the book to buy ..... 37.11 euros is too much for a paperback.

[@jeffersonwright9275]

Also the real-life protagonist of Terence Rattigan’s famous play The Winslow Boy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Archer-Shee

[@3vimages471]

What`s The Winslow Boy got to do with Fitzclarence?

[@sparkey6746]

Excellent presentation