The Unknown Warrior Story | The Bands of HM Royal Marines | Reaction

[@hughfranklin4002]

You can say what you want about my country, but we know how to honour our fallen. To give the ultimate gift to your country should be honoured.

[@pizzademonXX]

You can always judge the measure country by the way it Honers its Fallen🙏

[@nigethesassenach3614]

Well said Hugh.

[@guywerb]

As a Belgian, I absolutely agree with you. And if the drums of war were to be heard again in Europe on a similar scale than in WW1 and WW2, I'm sure Britain would stand up as always against tyranny. As the proud nation you have always been.

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

Wilfred Owen wrote of such stuff "If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie: 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.'" [Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori = it is right and proper to die for your country] And, as Owen writes, it's all a lie. Rudyard Kipling also wrote "If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.” War is a lie, it begins with a lie, it is maintained with lies, and after it ends it is glorified and justified by even more lies. The first casualty of war is truth. Truer words have never been said. The soldiers who joined up were lied to, and when they got to the front lines they saw they had been lied to, but were not permitted to say they saw the lies, on pain of severe punishment, and they were lied to every day by their superiors until the war ended, or the war ended them. And then the lies continued with talk of 'the glorious dead.' If you've seen a man cut in two by a flying piece of metal, or seen a man blown into a pink spray by an artillery shell, or seen a man's head explode from being hit by a bullet, or seen a man mortally wounded, just 19 years of age, lying in mud, calling for his mother as he dies, the glory of dying for your country fades pretty damn quick. Don't honour the dead. Apologize to the dead!

[@loireloire482]

Your country? 😂

[@marynorth7988]

Such an emotional service... for remembering UK's fallen heroes BUT also all of the allies from across the world who fought alongside us ! Humble thanks to all who lost members of their families . THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ...NOT EVER .

[@florrie2303]

Nice reaction. The Unknown Warrior was such a good idea that both France and the USA have their own unknown warriors/soldiers. In France I believe he's buried under the Arc de Triumph, and in the USA in Arlington. The USA have a special guard called Sentinels who stand watch over theirs. In the UK the tomb of the Unknown Warrior is the ONLY grave in Westminster Abbey that it is forbidden to stand on. You can jump up and down on the tombs of past Kings and Queens, and of great men, such as Winston Churchill, but you can NEVER set foot on that tomb as it would be disrespectful. Royal Brides have a tradition of leaving their wedding bouquets on the tomb as a mark of respect.

[@lorrainehood5218]

Just to say - there is no tomb of Churchill in Westminster Abbey, it is merely a memorial stone. He is buried in the cemetery near his birthplace (Blenheim Palace)

[@g_dubya71]

Also the tomb is traditionally saluted by anyone who served, it was acknowledged by members of the royal family in uniform during the Queen’s funeral

[@Trucksofwar]

Australia also has a Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier he overlooks the hall of remembrance where the name of every Australian serviceman Killed In Action is inscribed into the walls.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Not sure but I think France did theirs at same the time

[@florrie2303]

@@paulthomas-hh2kv Yes I believe they did the ceremony on the same day. What I meant was that the Unknown Warrior/Soldier was such a good idea that other countries followed suit, and I think the French were consulted about it all from the beginning, given that most of the British cemeteries are in France, and thus their permission for the exhumation and transport of this soldier would've been needed. The French response to this Act of Remembrance was immense given that they gave the British Unknown Warrior an honour guard. Such respect for those who fell will never be forgotten.

[@artfuldodger9312]

The British Unknown Soldier was laid to rest amongst monarchs. This signifies the immense respect and honor bestowed upon this soldier who remains unidentified. It is a symbol of the sacrifice that countless soldiers have made for their country, and the gratitude that is owed to them for their selflessness. The decision to bury the Unknown Soldier with kings demonstrates the recognition of the magnitude of the loss that war brings, as well as the importance of acknowledging and honoring those who have given their lives in service. The Unknown Soldier's resting place serves as a reminder of the bravery and valor that are integral to the British identity, and the need for continued reverence for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. This act of commemoration and respect is a testament to the deep sense of patriotism and gratitude that is felt by the British people, and serves as a powerful symbol of the nation's unity and resilience in the face of adversity.

[@HankD13]

The history of this tiny island is a pretty amazing one. Britain made a massive contribution to the whole concept of western civilization from the Magna Carter onwards. The list of technological and scientific advancements that spread around the world from the UK is amazing. The nation that a immense cost in blood and treasure decide to wage a crusade to end slavery for the entire world. The motherland or source for nations like the USA (though they would probably dispute it), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, not the forget the Commonwealth. Not too shabby for a tiny island people.

[@lordleonusa]

Lest We Forget, God Bless every one of those that gave their lives for their Country.

[@Cyberjyuubi]

It's an interesting fact that the tomb of the unknown warrior is at the very entrance of the chapel so it doesn't matter whether you are a King, Queen prime minister, president or supreme leader of a country you must give way to the unknown warrior.

[@bikerkermit]

So...once selected at random, the remains were: 1) watched over by a French legion; 2) moved under the vigil of the French infantry during the transfer back to the UK; 3) were piped aboard HMS Verdun using an Admiral's salute 4) taken with an escort of 6 battleships (that's A LOT of firepower) across the Channel 5) taken to Westminster Abbey past thousands of people 6) past the Cenotaph, a memorial to 1.1 million dead, killed during WW1 7) honoured with a wreath laid by the King 8) received by 100 recipients of the VC - only 1358 people have EVER received this medal 9) met by 100 widows from the Great War 10) respected by a 7 MILE queue of mourners This was, in all probability, a volunteer - just a person of no import who sacrificed his life, and was so honoured that to this day no-one EVER steps upon his tomb. Thankyou for covering this.

[@karlc9773]

They lost there lives for the rights we are loosing today, weve sorely let these brave men down

[@mairiconnell6282]

Hear, hear!

[@jimharrison748]

This always brings tears and gratitude in me. Every year on rememberance I give thanks and always will.

[@davebooth5655]

Utmost respect to all our fallen totally without regard to race or religion, they gave the ultimate gift, at the going down of the sun and in the morning we WILL remember them! Eye's front SALUTE.

[@tomhollandroberts1737]

All the metal work for the coffin of the UNKNOWN WARRIOR was made in the Brunswick Ironworks in Caernarfon, North Wales by order of Prime Ministor David Lloyd George.

[@casp11]

Absolutely amazing reaction 😊. Thank you for reacting to UK content especially military 🇬🇧. Much respect Birmingham UK ✌️.

[@WilliamEvans-bs5sj]

Thank you for your service Many respects from 🇬🇧

[@garymcalea3815]

The Unknown Warrior was awarded the Victoria Cross by order of the King. When the US were doing similar in Arlington, the King Awarded the US Unknown Warrior the Victoria Cross and the US Senate awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour to the British Unknown Warrior.

[@carolemiller198]

The poppy wreath being laid on the drum altar just lovely.

[@thomassugg5621]

Thank you for reacting to this, watching this always gets me emotional since many of my great great grandfathers served in the British armed forces during the World War One.

[@notwocdivad]

The last bugle call on the video was called SUNSET, It was played in the Marines to recall them back to camp at night! It was played at my Father in Law's funeral as e was an ex Royal Marine Commando

[@johnhall7679]

My uncle Colin fought in Bomber Command during WW2 retired in the 80's as a Winchman on SAR, he was a helicopter pilot on Wessex 5. At his funeral the RAF gave a fly past. At least that's what's I'd like to think. 2 Tornadoes.

[@gmdhargreaves]

Heartbreaking but at the same time warming, imagine a mother that believes that this soldier is her boy, the pride must be immense, the soldiers grave at Westminster is the first you see above and beyond any KINGS grave and the ONLY grave no body can walk over such is it’s esteem in British culture and history

[@russellmarmon2847]

Beautiful reaction thank you so much for your sincere kind words.

[@SheenaSelby]

This ceremony with the drums etc is usually performed infront of a packed arena. This was filmed during the pandemic so it was just the military and chior

[@mayajrj]

@bored Ruky on top of the coffin was laid a medieval warriors sword and it was bound to the coffin with iron made in wales. The King chose the sword 'The medieval crusader's sword was selected from the Tower of London Collection. The cortege, escorted by the pallbearers and followed by the King, members of the royal family and ministers of state, arrived at the north door of Westminster Abbey.8 Nov 2020' There are quite a few articles written about it if you look on google UK. Thank you for sharing your thoughts .

[@nickgrazier3373]

During WWI there were millions of British Empire Soldiers fighting alongside each other in France so the unknown warrior could have been from any country from the empire of that time, India, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian etc. anywhere. No one knows that’s the point. The cenotaph in London too is a commemoration of all the lives lost in defence of this country, they came from all over.

[@johnnyb8412]

Being English its very hard to not tear up watching this... react to how the Victoria cross is earned

[@pjmoseley243]

thanks for posting this and for your respect.

[@jkpole]

I love your respect....you are blessed

[@stephenhoran5298]

it means the soldier was truly unknown!!!

[@daxcoco1229]

Thank you from a Brit😊

[@seanmc1351]

i would just like to point out, how many ,milatry women are included in this video, from the trumpet to the end, all inclusive, warms my heart

[@mandeville7474]

The bugler was a man . In the U.K the names Kim , Beverly and Evelyn are given to girls and boys .

[@janetburrows137]

The last post Bugle always makes me cry 😢😢😢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🇬🇧❤️❤️

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Good video 👍 good reaction 👍 you stay safe

[@Skyfall-27]

No doubt the most beautiful and heartwarming video I've seen today.. Btw men will find these more touching and emotional than the girls

[@derekblythe6143]

Heartbreaking we couldn't bring them all back.😢

[@andymcguinness7065]

There are more than 3000 tombs and resting places of monarchs, and we’ll known people buried in Westminster Abbey (for example Charles Dickens, Sir Issac Newton, Chaucer, Handel, and so many more. Those tombs and resting places on the Abby floor are ‘just there’ you can walk apron them visiting the Cathedral. Not so, the tomb of the ‘unknown Warrior’, you cannot walk across it. It’s a bit like the Arlington tomb of the unknown US soldier, closely guarded by those elite ‘sentinels’ I’ve paid my respects at both tombs, I lost several uncles and family members during those conflicts, it’s all I can do and hope we’ve learned something, but even now in 2024 we have learned nothing....ll

[@seanmc1351]

thank you this video and the respect you paid, i salute you

[@Grah-66]

You are allowed to walk anywhere you want to in the abbey, on tombs, graves, whatever . . . . but you are forbidden to walk on this one..... and I mean forbidden

[@dilligaf4219]

One fact, the President of the United States gave permission for the British unknown soldier to receive the medal of honour and when the United States had their own unknown, the king awarded the US unknown the Victoria Cross

[@newton18311]

Most Gave Some, Some gave All.

[@janetburrows137]

Your not allowed too walk on that stone. ❤️🇬🇧🙏

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

Rudyard Kipling: "That flesh we had nursed from the first in all cleanness was given to corruption unveiled and assailed by the malice of Heaven -By the heart-shaking jests of decay where it lolled on the wires to be blanched or gay-painted by fumes - to be cindered by fires -To be senselessly tossed and re-tossed in stale mutilation from crater to crater. For this we shall take expiation. But who shall return us our children?"

[@janetburrows137]

The chances are, that soldier may have only been 18 yrs old. 😢😢😢😢🇬🇧❤️🙏

[@ivanhutchinsonmusic9464]

Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed my music.

[@iansanderson7369]

God bless God save my country ha men

[@frederictang3617]

Many appreciate of their service

[@janetburrows137]

Well said Love 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️

[@andrewmorris1453]

we are the best

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Music kills me every time

[@davetdowell]

Couldn't really hear your question on the arrival in England. A Battleship is as powerful as warship got, no one gets six for one mission, because quite simply no one needs six, one, two, or maybe very occassionally three to a battle was enough. Destroyers (like Verdun)(three or four to a Battleship) accompany Battleships for added firepower and positions.

[@philfenn3991]

The significance of this is immense, usually multiple destroyers act as escorts to a battleship, but here multiple battleships acted as escorts to a single destroyer

[@_starfiend]

HMS Verdun was specifically chosen to honour the French.

[@dover121]

Very moving.

[@stevengoundry7719]

As a marine thanks

[@WilliamEvans-kh1gj]

If God knows him he's not a soilder but maybe a angle from 🇬🇧

[@janetburrows137]

This must have been done during Covid as there’s no audience 😢🙏❤️🇬🇧🙏❤️🇬🇧

[@paulsmith-xt6sh]

We ended slavery we are one

[@kath3811]

❤

[@lynwratten9857]

My Great Grandmother would have been there, she lost two sons n the Ist World War and by paying respects to this one unknown soldier she was paying respects to her own sons. One son was buried in Belgium but the other one was not found and is just commemorated. How sad not to be able to bring your child home.

[@howarddustan]

and that is how you do it

[@hadesdogs4366]

War graves is a slang word or to be more blunt a collective word for mass grave where essentially a hole would be du about two meters deep in which case the dead would have been simply bulldozered or thrown onto a pile in the hole and buried over as there wasn’t any time to properly bury the dead, where there were rare cases of soldiers who were digging trenches to accidentally uncover a mass grave, although to be fair being given your own grave and coffin would’ve been. Considered a luxury, whilst the many more fortunate sods who’ve died had to share what was essentially a hole in the ground with over ten or more other people without a tombstone to mark their bodies, however in about 60% of the time or most of the time, the dead were simply left and abandoned being too dangerous to retrieve or collect or they just didn’t have enough time to bury them, leaving them either hanging on the barbed wire or half buried in a crater all the while the crows and rats enjoyed a feast of the dead where, some rats grew so large they resembled small dogs or even cats due to the amount of free food available to them, so much so they were called and quiet rightfully so corpse rats, all the while diseases and filth plagued the trenches whilst the carnal stench of the dead and dying, mixed in with the acidic tang of chlorine gas filled the air along with the smell of burnt gunpowder, all the while lashing rains flooded the trenches so much so people were drowned in mere puddles, all the while the biting cold gnawed at their fingers and toes as frost bite and trench foot slowly ate them alive and in the summer the blistering heat burnt any unlucky victim out in the open for too long leading to large cases of heat strokes, all the while the reek of the dead became even more prevalent, that is uncles a sniper takes you in the head, or a stray artillery round buries you alive or pepper you with shrapnel, all the while dark clouds of death and a slow agonizing death waits for a favorable wind as your skin and at soft tissue suffers from severe chemical burns and blindness, all the while the chlorine causes you to drown in your own fluids. These are some of the horrors BOYS, not men boys as old as fifteen were forced to endure and if they refused to fight, then they would be imprisoned for cowardice and shot via firing squad, all the while everyone harasses you for not fighting, and if you do fight and break, then they would simply shoot you for insubordination or even cowardice, and if you’re lucky, they’ll send you to a mental hospital in which you will be tortured and experimented on to study the signs and results of PTSD and if you’re really really lucky and manage to make it throughout the entire war, not only are you physically and mentally scared for life, but you would be socially abandoned as your wife or fiancé leaves you for another man, but not only that but being a former soldier who now has either no arm or no leg or looks like an abomination, in a time where social programs was considered a far right ideology in which even a service pension if they were lucky enough to get, was only about thirty dollars in todays money, all the while being incapable of working or doing a job since everything had to be done manually, all the whileyour friends are all dead and your family doesn’t even know that you even exist, all the while your wife or even mother would leave you in favor of some coal miner or some American in which you find yourself having an extra siblings or children despite being away for over a year or more. All the while people try and rebuild their lives from the bombed out remains of their homes and cities, Berlin was effectively nothing more than a pile of rubble after the war. So whenever anyone thinks that they have it hard then please reconsider that there are those who’ve had it far worse to far less deserving people.

[@philfenn3991]

Have you actually seen images of the war graves from the first world war? Whenever possible each soldier was given an individual grave, with their name rank and regiment if known, or the inscription "unknown" if not. One of the decisions made for the graves was that they would be as identical as possible regardless of the rank or nationality of the soldier. There are aristocratic officers and common working class private soldiers laid to rest in identical graves.

[@Nick-u6q3f]

It's respect, simple. How are you making this.

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

a dead statesman I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue. And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among, mine angry and defrauded young? (Rudyard Kipling)

[@adrianhughes8143]

You speaking over the trumpeter playing the last post is incredibly disrespectful, if you did that at a military ceremony or any ceremony remembering our fallen heroes you would definitely be dealt with either by angry British citizens or by angry British military veterans. I am British and I had cousins who were in WW2 and served the UK, one of my cousin's was in the RAF ( Royal Air Force) flying in a Bomber as a Radio Operator/ Rear Gunner, he joined up in 1940 and was killed in 1944, he is buried in a British War Graves Cemetery in Italy, he came from Northern Ireland and he is one of my heroes just like all our dead from WW1 to Afghanistan. I am a supporter of our British Armed Forces which should always be respected even by those not from the UK. When respect is not shown to those serving in our British Armed Forces, our Military Veterans and to our heroic Military Dead many of us British Citizens get very angry. 😡😡😡😡💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@kennethconnell9174]

Moooooo9

[@kennethconnell9174]

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[@anthonyyarwood9558]

I know you like doing videos on the USA history, but it's not really an old country. I've got socks as old as the USA. If you want to learn history you need to look at the UK British English history don't forget the English language started with us in England.

[@reggriffiths5769]

It's time then you bought new socks, and refrained from exaggeration! It's also well to remember that the UK is not just all about England - there are four other nations involved, and we all speak English; and as a by-the-way, the English Language contains Latin, French, German, Indian, Hindustan and other foreign words, not just English.

[@generaladvance5812]

Don't be dick please anthony. Let the lady watch what she wants.

[@anthonyyarwood9558]

@reggriffiths5769 I do know that the English language is made up of French and German but its fucking still called English. Smart gob.

[@reggriffiths5769]

@@anthonyyarwood9558 What colourful Anglo-Saxon you use. I'm sure your mother would be most proud - unless of course, she taught you!