Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval.
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WW1 - Heilly - Somme - 13th FAB - Stuart Curry
Walking in the Footsteps of my Grandfathers 2008. Western Front Battlefields France. During the Great War of 1918 the Australian Artillery 5th Division set up positions near Heilly. Next valley north of Villers-Bretonneux was a diversion.
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Sgt Percy Rowe aka Paddy Rowan, Heilly Station Cemetery
Video footage of Sgt Percy Rowe's grave.
Heilly Station Cemetery,
Heilly
Departement de la Somme
Picardie, France
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The Western Front 100 years on (1) - Albert, La Boiselle, Pozières, Fricourt, Mametz
Visit to the Somme, February 2019
Albert, La Boiselle, Pozières, Fricourt, Mametz
Bapaume Post Cemetery
Lochnagar Crater
Ovillers Cemetery
Pozières Memorial
Pozières Cemetery
1st Australian Division Memorial
KRRC Memorial
Peake Wood Cemetery
Fricourt German Cemetery
38th (Welsh) Division Memorial - The Red Dragon
Flatiron Copse Cemetery
Devonshire Cemetery
Gordon Cemetery
Carnoy Cemetery
Music: Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture
Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont.
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The wounded in the trenches, world war one, 1910's -- Film 39295
World War One.
Trenches. Near Carnoy. Battle of the Somme.
An insight in to some aspects of the British and German First World War battlefield wounded.
British soldiers walking along a duckboard lined trench, one man is being carried on a stretcher. A group of British soldiers walk along a road, two carry a stretcher with someone on it and another soldier is pulling a cart.
Plate: British and German stretchers through the trenches during the height of battle. German wounded being brought in near Carnoy. 35
A lone soldier climbs over some barbwire entanglements, where a body lies and in the foreground are scattered sandbags. A single line of armed British soldiers leading unarmed German soldiers, the line then becomes a group. A wide landscape scene where two figures are holding up and helping a third. Along a trench a soldier carries a very wounded soldier on his back. Soldiers walking along trench, two men carry a wounded soldier on stretcher.
Plate: British and German stretchers through the trenches during the height of battle. German wounded being brought in near Carnoy. 35
At a trench junction, a soldier comes by with a wounded soldier over his shoulder, two soldiers carry a stretcher with a wounded soldier on, and when they have passed armed soldiers move through the trench.
Several British medical military personnel try to carry a stretcher, with a wounded person on it, up a slight incline within a trench. Several British medical military personnel carry a stretcher, with a wounded person on it, and place it on the muddy ground. A soldier helps a wounded soldier along a trench, followed by two men carrying a stretcher with a wounded soldier on. Wounded soldiers in a trench, some are standing while others sit with their back against the trench. Soldiers, with minor wounds to hands and arms walk along a trench, the majority are smoking and bringing up the rear is a soldier limping while another aids him.
In the Footsteps of Robert Gorrill Part 1 of 3
In 2010, my father, brother and I travelled to France to trace the WW1 history of my great-uncle Robert Gorrill. This was the video I produced of our journey, and is in three parts.
Robert was with the Sheffield City Battalion near Serre and took part in the First Day on the Somme, the so-called Big Push that started on the 1st July 1916. The under-age Robert amazingly survived this but was killed near Soissons in March 1918. Like many, his body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Soissons Memorial.
We were guided by Ian Gumm of In The Footsteps who had done all the research regarding Robert's involvement in the First World War.
We visited many WW1 sites and cemetaries, including Sheffield Park, Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Delville Wood, Mametz Wood, Fricourt and many more, all very thought-provoking, sobering and saddening.
Having said that, we all thoroughly enjoyed spending some very rare brother / brother / father time together.
These three videos show our journey and Robert's story.
The one thing that this journey ultimately showed was the complete waste of a whole generation of healthy young men, from all sides of the conflict.
In total, 16 million people lost their lives in the Great War, of which Robert was just one.
I hope that you enjoy the story.
This is Part 1.
Battle of Guillemont
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The Battle of Guillemont was an attack by the Fourth Army on the village of Guillemont.The village is on the D 20 running east to Combles and the D 64 south-west to Montauban.Longueval and Delville Wood lie to the north-west and Ginchy to the north-east.The village was on the right flank of the British sector, near the boundary with the French Sixth Army.
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Capture of Mametz
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Mametz is a village on the D 64 road, about 20 miles north-east of Amiens and 4 miles east of Albert.Fricourt lies to the west, Contalmaison is to the north, Montauban to the north-east and Carnoy and Maricourt are to the south-east.Mametz Wood is 1,000 yards to the north-west and before 1914, the village was the fifth largest in the area, with about 120 houses and had a station on the line from Albert to Péronne.During the Battle of Albert 1914 the II Bavarian Corps attacked westwards north of the Somme but was fought to a standstill east of Mametz.
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Répétition d'une animation à Bernafay Wood (Somme)
Le capitaine Nevill,qui commande le 8e bataillon de l'East Surrey Regiment, va emmener ses hommes lors de l'offensive du 1er juillet 1916, ballon au pied jusqu'aux lignes allemandes. Il est tué juste devant les barbelés ennemis, deux semaines tout juste avant son 22ème anniversaire. Il est enterré au cimetière de Carnoy.
Lochnagar mine
The Lochnagar mine was a mine dug by the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers under a German field fortification known as Schwabenhöhe, in the front line, south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département of France. The mine was named after Lochnagar Street, the British trench from which the gallery was driven. It was one of eight large and eleven small mines that were placed beneath the German lines on the British section of the Somme front. The Lochnagar mine was sprung at 7:28 a.m. on 1 July 1916, the First day on the Somme. The crater was captured and held by British troops but the attack on either flank was defeated by German small-arms and artillery fire, except on the extreme right flank and just south of La Boisselle, north of the new crater. The crater has been preserved as a memorial, where a service is held on 1 July each year.
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Royal Engineer tunnelling companies | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:41 1 Background
00:03:21 2 World War I formation
00:04:23 2.1 Request and proposal
00:06:18 2.2 Kitchener responds
00:10:25 2.3 First tunnelling companies
00:12:27 2.4 First action: Hill 60, Ypres Salient
00:14:37 2.5 Expansion
00:16:00 2.6 Methodology
00:16:54 2.7 Recruitment
00:18:29 2.8 Digging
00:20:19 2.9 Working conditions
00:22:11 2.10 Mine rescue
00:24:40 2.11 Underground fighting
00:25:42 3 Counter-mining
00:25:51 3.1 Listening
00:28:07 3.2 Underground tactics
00:29:25 4 British advantages
00:32:22 5 Operations
00:34:13 5.1 Hooge and Mont Sorrel
00:36:12 5.2 Battle of the Somme
00:38:57 5.3 Battle of Messines
00:44:05 5.4 Battle of Vimy Ridge
00:47:07 6 End of mining operations
00:49:12 6.1 Battle of Arras
00:52:38 6.2 Second Battle of Passchendaele
00:54:05 7 Remains and memorials
00:57:52 8 Operations since World War I
00:58:13 9 Awards
00:58:22 9.1 Victoria Cross
01:00:08 9.2 Distinguished Conduct Medal
01:00:40 10 Units
01:03:54 11 See also
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Royal Engineer tunnelling companies were specialist units of the Corps of Royal Engineers within the British Army, formed to dig attacking tunnels under enemy lines during the First World War.
The stalemate situation in the early part of the war led to the deployment of tunnel warfare. After the first German Empire attacks on 21 December 1914, through shallow tunnels underneath no man's land and exploding ten mines under the trenches of the Indian Sirhind Brigade, the British began forming suitable units. In February 1915, eight Tunnelling Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid-1916, the British Army had around 25,000 trained tunnellers, mostly volunteers taken from coal mining communities. Almost twice that number of attached infantry worked permanently alongside the trained miners acting as 'beasts of burden'.From the spring of 1917 the whole war became more mobile, with grand offensives at Arras, Messines and Passchendaele. There was no longer a place for a tactic that depended upon total stasis for its employment. The tactics and counter-tactics required deeper and deeper tunnelling, hence more time and more stable front lines were also required, so offensive and defensive military mining largely ceased. Underground work continued, with the tunnellers concentrating on deep dugouts for troop accommodation, a tactic used particularly in the Battle of Arras.
Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:33 1 Background
00:03:07 2 First World War formation
00:04:05 2.1 Request and proposal
00:05:52 2.2 Kitchener responds
00:09:42 2.3 First tunnelling companies
00:11:36 2.4 First action: Hill 60, Ypres Salient
00:13:39 2.5 Expansion
00:15:17 2.6 Methodology
00:16:09 2.7 Recruitment
00:17:35 2.8 Digging
00:19:18 2.9 Working conditions
00:21:00 2.10 Mine rescue
00:23:20 2.11 Underground fighting
00:24:17 3 Counter-mining
00:24:25 3.1 Listening
00:26:32 3.2 Underground tactics
00:27:46 4 British advantages
00:30:30 5 Operations
00:32:16 5.1 Hooge and Mont Sorrel
00:34:07 5.2 Battle of the Somme
00:36:43 5.3 Battle of Messines
00:41:30 5.4 Battle of Vimy Ridge
00:44:22 6 End of mining operations
00:46:20 6.1 Battle of Arras
00:49:33 6.2 Second Battle of Passchendaele
00:50:55 7 Remains and memorials
00:54:27 8 Awards
00:54:35 8.1 Victoria Cross
00:56:15 8.2 Distinguished Conduct Medal
00:56:45 9 Units
00:59:49 10 See also
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Royal Engineer tunnelling companies were specialist units of the Corps of Royal Engineers within the British Army, formed to dig attacking tunnels under enemy lines during the First World War.
The stalemate situation in the early part of the war led to the deployment of tunnel warfare. After the first German Empire attacks on 21 December 1914, through shallow tunnels underneath no man's land and exploding ten mines under the trenches of the Indian Sirhind Brigade, the British began forming suitable units. In February 1915, eight Tunnelling Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid-1916, the British Army had around 25,000 trained tunnellers, mostly volunteers taken from coal mining communities. Almost twice that number of attached infantry worked permanently alongside the trained miners acting as 'beasts of burden'.From the spring of 1917 the whole war became more mobile, with grand offensives at Arras, Messines and Passchendaele. There was no longer a place for a tactic that depended upon total stasis for its employment. The tactics and counter-tactics required deeper and deeper tunnelling, hence more time and more stable front lines were also required, so offensive and defensive military mining largely ceased. Underground work continued, with the tunnellers concentrating on deep dugouts for troop accommodation, a tactic used particularly in the Battle of Arras.
20th (Light) Division | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:25 1 History
00:00:34 1.1 1914-15
00:00:44 1.1.1 Formation and Training
00:02:17 1.1.2 France
00:04:21 1.1.3 Loos
00:06:54 1.2 1916
00:07:35 1.2.1 Ypres
00:10:22 1.2.1.1 Battle of Mont Sorrel
00:12:38 1.2.2 The Somme
00:13:52 1.2.2.1 Battle of Guillemont
00:21:28 1.2.2.2 Morval and Lesbœufs
00:25:22 1.2.2.3 Le Transloy
00:31:05 1.3 1917
00:32:36 1.3.1 The Hindenburg Line
00:37:11 1.3.2 Third Battle of Ypres
00:39:04 1.3.2.1 Battle of Langemarck
00:46:04 1.3.2.1.1 Eagle Trench
00:48:40 1.3.3 Cambrai
00:58:33 1.3.3.1 German counter-attack
01:02:27 1.4 1918
01:04:34 1.4.1 Spring Offensive
01:05:24 1.4.1.1 The Somme 1918
01:17:43 1.4.2 Lens
01:21:45 1.4.3 Hundred Days
01:24:06 2 Order of battle
01:29:58 3 Victoria Cross Recipients
01:30:40 4 Memorial
01:30:49 5 General Officer Commanding
01:31:28 6 Battle Insignia
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The 20th (Light) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Kitchener's Army, raised in the First World War. The division was formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division landed in France July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front.