Tour Scotland with Bruce Fummey travefy.com/trip/6yw9rqe49v6sqz2aftpbgg76bbfvg3q A video about another unexpected Scottish military grave...? kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWlhldh6Zbm4pbQ.html Buy me coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/ScottishBruce

Do you know. As a kid I didn't care for history. But as I'm ageing, I can't take enough in. I'm loving this chanel.

@BoadiceanRevenge

Ай бұрын

Yes isn't it strange! I think many subjects are wasted on us when we're young because we can't appreciate them properly. But if they were more interesting and were told by people like Bruce, how much better it would be for all school children! Get rid of Ofsted and employ people like Bruce! Aye! 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🙋

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣I wouldn't put education in my hands

@philomenahearn1717

Ай бұрын

I don’t remember having such humorous and inspiring teachers as Bruce - which adds to our fascination today

@pamelaoliver8442

Ай бұрын

Presentation is key ❤

@macandrews71

Ай бұрын

I binge on Bruce! lol Slàinte mhath!

No hero, should be forgotten, by those they served. Nice one, Bruce.

Another cracking story. My son father was a gunner in the second world war. He was a scotsman taken as alad that had never been out of Scotland to india after basic training in England. Its was in India that he first learned he was to be deployed in to Burma. Along with his brother who was with a special group of men. But that's another story. With malaria and other things that were out to kill the men not just the opposite side. My uncle was behind enemy lines. But my father was cut of from even our own troops three times. The stories my father never told or even mentioned until he watch me lose a friend in the Falklands war. My father past away, I never knew him as a well man. It stripped me of a father that was naturally funny with a dry sence of humor but rearly seen. To much death in wars is mans downfall.

There’s the grave of an Indian who served with the Royal Navy in a cemetery not far from me amongst a great many naval service personnel. Like the men in Kingussie he has a Muslim name and died pre independence and partition. We should never forget the service of so many from various parts of the then empire in the World Wars.

@KC-gy5xw

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. I'm always amazed at how many children of West Indian heritage do not know about the men who fought with the RAF, Navy etc in WW2, which is why a lot of them came over to UK as the Windrush generation.. to look after the 'mother' land and help with the rebuilding of the country. My parents did this and I'm proud of them for it. Tis a shame the government got rid of the proof of those younger ''Windrush' generation coming to UK to their parents who were working here.. They were going after a certain group, but lumped those people in with them!! Disgusting...

According to my Grandfathers (Ghurkhas, Chindits, and others), the whole of the army in the far east was the 'Forgotten Army.' I have their medals, the kukri, but sadly not the regimental kilt! Anyway, the glad the memorial wasn't vandalised like so many lately. Great video!

@KC-gy5xw

Ай бұрын

How wonderful to have their stories though! I hope your family never forget as so many others have, the contribution of men and and women of the British Empire - they never get a thank you. After all, if it wasn't for guns, the British would never have conquered so many places..

Bruce, your passion for history is so inspiring ☺️

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

I try

@mikhailabunidal9146

Ай бұрын

​@@ScotlandHistoryTours You're explaining to us anything to do w/ Scotland and it's people and events as a well as it's contributions to the 🌎 but at your finest with a tinge of comedy (Scottish comedy that is) added into it

@brucedeane8

Ай бұрын

ditto that

@alimetodista3459

Ай бұрын

Hello fellow Scots, please vote out rac*st Humzas SNP, Scotland needs us to save her and our childrens freedom is at stake in the future.

Thank you for telling their story.

A'reyt Bruce. There is a family rumour that suggests ancestors of Indian army origin. Strange that my uncle would do the trip in reverse in WW2 and be a muleteer in Burma. Before the war he had shire horses and it was said he could knock them out if they were startled and likely to panic in a crowded area. A work colleague asked "If the mule was stubborn, he chinned it?"

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Ooooooh

Great video Bruce very informative as usual,respect to the men and women who tend and maintain the graves of all nationalities including prisoners of war with the same respect and dedication!

Must be Saturday early morning! Mr Bruce has another interesting lesson for us! Thank you for all your hard work! 🖤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Morning!

There are no distinction of any kind on war graves. No colour, no race, no religion or sex. They are all service people, and we should respect that, AND always remember their sacrifice for today's society. As the Kohlma Epitaph says, " When you go home, Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, We gave our today."

In case anyone is wondering, hypothermia can make people behave irrationally, which might explain why Khan Mohammad wasn't in full winter gear.

@faithlesshound5621

Ай бұрын

That's what I thought too. As hypothermia worsens and people become confused, they may also start feeling too warm and remove some or all of their clothing, thus accelerating the process.

Its great to live in a life that looks back and decide judge the past. Great history stories Bruce. what an amazing story. I was so drawn into it Bruce.

@mikhailabunidal9146

Ай бұрын

Same here

Thanks Bruce for posting such an interesting and educational video. I was in Kingussie on a business trip last year, saw the memorial, paid my respects but wasn't aware of the full context. As I've said - many thanks, that video was tremendous.😀

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

😘

Bruce - please please please do some audio books of Scottish classic literature. You would be wonderful. I could listen to you read the telephone directory and it would still be interesting. Bon weekend à vous.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

I could maybe just do an audio book of the phone directory 😜

@darrylshamrock

Ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I would PREFER something like "Kidnapped"......but...... OK.

Bruce, another gem! Please send this to those who look down their noses at anyone who isn’t the colour of A4 Foolscap.

@robroy6804

Ай бұрын

that sounds like a racist comment

@KC-gy5xw

Ай бұрын

@@robroy6804 that sounds like TRUTH

@johnmcdonald9295

Ай бұрын

@@robroy6804Nearly all racism is on white people,with 11 pocs in hospitals atm in the UK ,for killing 25 yt people

When you are undercooled, you often think you are to hot and undress yourself.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Indeed

Love your gift for storytelling, so happy you remind us of their brave lives (and deaths).

Thank you Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Very welcome

fascinating history Bruce, I have a document on my computer, A Corner of Pakistan in Scotland which covers your subject. The document discusses other locations incuding Keith, Aberchirder and also Lairg. There is reference to one soldier who died of a brain heamorage as result of an injury on a railway siding on the Keith to Banff railway line. I hadn't been aware of the fella who had been shot. As ever, excellent video, thank you

Just arrived home after spending the week photographing the wildlife of the Cairngorms. Even spotted a wildcat but didn’t spot that rear creature the Bruce. To know you were there and I missed capturing you. With a wee dram I hoped to get you to tell me a story. But I wake up and hear your voice over the airwaves. So close and yet so far away. YNWA

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣

"Paradoxical undressing" is observed in somewhere between 20-50% of hypothermia deaths. As far as I'm aware, there are a few competing explanations behind it, from a cold-induced malfunction of the hypothalamus (the part of the brain associated with temperature regulation), and the exhaustion of the muscles preventing blood flow to the extremities, causing a surge of blood that causes a feeling of being overheated. It may be some, all or none of them. Nasty way to go, whatever the cause.

One of your important videos. Thank you.

Thank you for this. They are worthy of being better remembered than they are.

I've always loved history and enjoyed my school lessons but Bruce puts a different curve on it and makes it even more enjoyable but alas there are so many soldiers of ww1 and 2 from foreign countries that have been forgotten thank you Bruce for another fantastic video

What an amazing story. ❤

I visited Kingussie from across the Atlantic. I am sorry I wasn't paying closer attention to this. Thank you for taking me back there and sharing this story.

My grandad first told me “remember, we’re a’ Jock Tamsan’s bairns” when I was wee, seventy odd years ago. Maybe the world would be a better place today if we all remembered that. Thanks once again, Brucie 👍🏻

Very moving and interesting. I am a retired US Army member and appreciate honors given to all who served.

Fascinating. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

You're welcome

"it's good to hit all the bases" when it comes to triggering people. I knew there was a reason I liked you, Bruce 😂 🤟

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

😜

Thank you, my friend, for sharing their stories.

THIS should be made into a movie!! Oh, and I am very happy that you're still doing tours for next year! I couldn't do this year, but I can look at next year!

Bruce I'm glad you did this video. I have posted a video of a tune composed by a Scottish piper in the 51st Division who had to surrender at St Valarie whilst as a prisoner of war.

Thank you for posting this video 👌 Please remember the 51st Highland Division at St Valery 1940. My Uncle was one of the few to escape. He was later taken prisoner in the desert Campaign in 1942. Sgt A G White. RAMC, I still have his dog tags he wore throughout the war. Guy Martin's channel has good videos in a playlist titled "Dunkirk: Forgotten Heroes" Please also remember The 1st (Polish) Independent Parachute Brigade. (Arnhem, Film- A Bridge too Far) They were stationed in Fife and trained in Upper Largo, Leven has a Memorial Garden to remember them. They and their Major General: Stanisław Sosabowski ( played by Gene Hackman in the film) were very badly treated by the British government.

Wonderful as always Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Thanks again!

A brilliant story Bruce. My grandfather was a pipe major for the Black Watch and captured after Dunkirk as part of the 51st Highland Division. A mile further north, or a mile further south and he would have been shot by the SS. These men would have suffered the same fate if they had been captured by the SS. However, my grandfather and those captured with him were taken to a prisoner of war camp. He and a few others escaped, but, heading south to Spain, were recaptured, my grandfather shot through a lung causing him to lose it. In a 2nd PoW camp, he and a mate escaped again, made it to the Netherlands and escaped back to the UK, later taking part in the Liberation of Europe. It was great to hear of other members of the 51st Highland Division through your story and what became of them. It's important to celebrate the lives of all men who took part in that campaign, not just my grandfather and those like him.

Been to kingussie many times and never knew about these poor souls, next time i pass by i'll pop in for a wee visit and pay my respects, cheers Bruce another great video

14:40 Bidh mi a’ coimhead air adhart ri barrachd susbaint fhaicinn bhuat Brus, bi faiceallach agus faigh tlachd às an deireadh-sheachdain bhrèagha seo còmhla ri do theaghlach bhrèagha

Fascinating story Bruce! Thank you for remembering the troops of the Empire that didn't come from Britain! I appreciate this information that I can't get here in the States as easily. The book sounds cool! Take care now!😊

And I remember the days you used to teach Physics, Bruce... 🙂 Brilliant job with what you're doing. Love it.

Excellent as ever

Fascinating story; thank you for sharing it with us, Bruce :)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Well Bruce and Crew ( the drone shots were amazing) did it again another great vid.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Thanks again!

Thank you for posting this video! The history of those people buried in the military graveyard is fascinating. Ready to set a date travel to Scotland - love that you offer tours.

Thank you for sharing the story of these men Bruce. I must admit I associate donkeys and mules in WW2 more Burma than the Cairngorms. Churchill had quite a few "Cunning Plans" both in WW2 & WW1.

As usual Bruce give a great tale and inspires with his story telling. Many teachers could do worse than do the same when presenting to students . It would create a great many keen students and make their assignments much more interesting .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Ah, you're too kind

Wow! You got me again and again realizing how much I do not know. I love the way you weaved the past to the present, BRILLIANT Bruce!!! You are an awesome teacher. I hope your Scotland tours book fast. If I was able to travel and had the means, Scotland with Bruce is where I would be!! Thank you

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Thanks for another engrossing video Bruce You have a great gift for drawing people in through the history into a story that impacts the emotions and often carries a punch at the end This one is no exception Many thanks again

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you

Kudos for bringing to light the amount of commonwealth troops that served during WW2. Shamefully, it's something that hardly ever gets talked about in our schools in England 😔 Thankyou 🙏

By the close of the Napoleonic Wars, it is believed that upwards of 40% of the Highland regiments in the British Army were not, in fact, highlanders themselves or even of Scottish ancestry. I mentioned this to a Glaswegian friend, who responded that as far as he was concerned anyone that came to Scotland to find a home and future was Scottish regardless of their creed or colour. He saw such people choosing to come to Scotland as paying the Scots one hell of a compliment-- it is no small thing to uproot from all that is familiar and move to a very different land in the hopes of a better life for one's family. In essence, he had absolutely no time for the "no true Scotsman" fallacy and believes ardently that Scots are born all over the planet... it just takes some of them longer to come home than others. Would that more of us the world over have such an open mind and welcoming heart.

You make history fascinating. Thanks.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

You already know I love your stories, Bruce but it’s always worth repeating. And notice my surname. Keep up the good work 🌞

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Thanks Ray. The comments help the algorithm

The trip sounds amazing

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

You know it's true

Fascinating!

Been following you a long time for wonderful videos about inspiring people from all over the world. You never disappoint. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Ah thank YOU

Isobel Harling from Kingussie tended the graves for decades. She’s buried opposite them. An amazing woman!

A quote from the Scottish War Memorial "The presence of these animals is a clear statement of the intention that the memorial should be inclusive. It is not a thing apart but, as the war did, it involves the whole community, even the humble animals. The inscription reads, "Remember also the humble beasts"."

GOD BLESS SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great video and story again Bruce! There’s an ancient lifting stone (101kg) in Kingussie, just down and across from the motogrill if you’re feeling fit!!

Its not the first ministers ethnicity that triggers its his apparent lack of ethical standards

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Aye, politicians with ethical standards eh🤣

My Grampa, Sargent John MacDougall was captured at St Valerie. He escaped with 2 other men and found a glass bottomed boat in a river. They were very lucky to be picked up at sea.

Bro I just found out something of interest when studying my “Indian” family that arrived in Barbados from Scotland during highland Clearances by the Greeks. Highland meant island in this context and this was not the clearing of the tops of Scottish mountains but the clearing of islands peoples and their relocation to Scotland and Ireland for the work on the new plantations being built. They stole us from islands and enslaved us there. Later they start conscripting the males to end the lineages with endless wars. I found that’s what wars are all about too, clearing the able males to lessen rebellion. I found 800,000 cases of this happening to Indians in US and Canada during world wars. Almost like that was the purpose of those wars to clear the western states and Canada of the natives. Just wanted to share

Interesting as always!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

bruce...theres been soldiers graves been found only marked by numbers and are being renovated in hartwood Shotts....could be a good video doc for you bro...i'll try and get you more info if your interested..cheers Dougie.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Ooooo

Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Huge thanks

Ffs Bruce, me & the wife had a debate on the jaffa cake trials, in the way home from your Kilbarchan show😂😂😂, is it a cake or is it a bicuit??, i said cake cos they go hard if you leave them oot??? Great show pal, really hope to come see you again, we loved it, not what i expected, but it was fantastic, 😂😂😂 enjoy Canadian oddfellows lol

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣

Looking at at that wide landscape, I can see why so many Scottish people felt at home in St Elizabeth, Jamaica!! A home from home for my forbears (and there are LOADS of us around, trust me!!) Where my dad was born and grew up (after a mass move by his fathers family from St Elizabeth late 19th century), there was a fort at Struan with a Scottish Division, so the locals with Scottish ancestry and names, found a few more names, as in my dad got given the moniker Kermit (along with his Scottish forebear names)!! So did a few other kids of his age.. And yes, he did have a green suit because of that bloody frog, he loved it!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Hope to see you

How I wish I could visit my ancestoral lands in Scotland. I'm decended from Scottish Royalty and Nobility so I know the sites exist but I'll never be able to make the journey I so long for.

Another missed group is the Dunkirk Rearguard some Durham infantry I worked with someone who father was in the Rearguard and did not return till nearly end of the war very thin and very emaciated and not recognisable.

I'm reminded of the tens of thousands of casualties over the centuries that are buried with no marker at all.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

😪

Hey Bruce, when are you doing your show in Calgary? Scotsman living in Canada.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

25 күн бұрын

www.artscommons.ca/whats-on/stories-of-scotland

Have you heard of the graves of Highland chiefs buried at Rainow near Macclesfield there's a story there.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

I need to add that to a cross border trip

❤

I only ever knew it (Kingussie) for pleats. No longer.

My 2 great-uncles served in the British Empire Forces in the ill-fated Malayan Campaign (1941-1942). One was a captain, killed in action just before the Fall of Singapore & the other was a CQMS (company quartermaster sergeant) who became a POW & was murdered by the Japanese. Are there ethnic Chinese soldiers who might have served in Scottish units & who might be buried & commemorated in Scotland? Could you make a video of their stories, if possible? Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

25 күн бұрын

I don't know of any such at the moment. Who knows what the future will bring?

I looked everywhere but can't find a price for spring tour?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

25 күн бұрын

www.scotlandhistorytours.co.uk/tours/info/group 🤔🤔

Hey mate I've been wondering who's that on your hoody?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Alexander Graham Bell

Those 2.5 million Indians were not conscripts, but they did not all join up out of unfettered free will either. In the rural areas the British Army preferred to recruit from, the main landlords would have been given recruitment targets by British officials and would in turn have pressed their tenant farmers to send a son or two. There was no legal compulsion, but there was more than social pressure at work. That happened during both world wars. Maybe something similar used to go on in the Highlands?

Its amazing how many people from foreign lands have been written out of of British History!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Indeed

you're a modern Bard !

I have a what if question. What if the stone of Stone Destiny & the crown stayed in Scotland? What would Scotland look like from that point of View? I personnaly always wanted Scotland to be the head of the UK as a kid. As an old fart Scotland looks like head of the dragon, Perth the mouth, Ireland the wings and England n Wales the body.

I dunno, Bruce. As a Canadian it is hard for me to picture someone from the Himalayas dying from exposure in Scotland in the middle of October. My AI query says the average temperatures in the highlands at the time ranged from 2 C to 12 C. Chilly but not dangerous for active young men. There must be more to that story.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

...like understanding what average means. 🤔

@nicolad8822

Ай бұрын

You’d be surprised, the wind, rain, an injury. The weather can come down quickly.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

Most years somebody dies in the mountains

@junestewart5098

Ай бұрын

I can answer that as a fellow Canadian, I was born on Scotland and emigrated to Canada in the 80’s. 8 years ago I returned home to Scotland and I can assure you that winter temps of -25 or 30 around Kelowna in BC is almost mild compared to the bitingly cold wet and windy highland weather that chills one to the very core. I feel much colder in the winters in Scotland than I ever felt in Canada. It’s simply a different type of cold that unless experienced is hard to imagine. 😊

Brice where you on Stranraer on Mother’s Day weekend by any chance

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

i did a show in Ryan Centre

You mentioned Royal Pindi in your talk, which I found very interesting, but Royal pindi is in Pakistan not India just thought you should know

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

I did mention Rawalpindi. I also mentioned that Pakistan didn't exist

Does anyone know why some of the head stones are set at an angle?

@SearTrip

Ай бұрын

Probably so the body is in the proper orientation to Mecca.

@RichWoods23

Ай бұрын

@@SearTrip Yes. The OS map shows the lines of the graves being about 30 degrees off north, and Mecca is about 45 degrees south and east of Kingussie, so a 15 degree angle from the standard layout seems right. Interestingly, European Christian graves were originally meant to be laid east-west, so that the risen dead would face Jerusalem when the Kingdom of Christ came to Earth, but somewhere along the way this tradition was dropped. There's probably a cult of 9th century reconstructionists who claim that most Christians will never attain Heaven for this reason. Well, it's as about as reasonable as all the other god claims.

is fummey’s ancestors from a foreign country? It’s his dreadlocks that me wonder!!

What about the Lowlander population Daffty.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

What about the Lowlander populatoin Dafty?🤔🤔Hmmmmm

You state that those dead Muslim soldiers came from the area that would become the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, yet your thumbnail has a background image of the neighbouring (majority Hindu) country of India. I really enjoy your KZread content, thanks for posting.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

I said that Pakistan didn't exist at the time. Neither did India in its current form. That’s why I deliberately DIDN'T use either flag. An India flag would have had a spinning wheel

Aye.

No no Bruce in 1939 England strode alone.

Naik is the Indian Army title for Corporal. Just a wee comment.

☯️🤠💜

My favorite videos usually ‘trigger’ someone- because they add to my knowledge or understanding.

Death is a great leveler.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

True

Identity crisis

We're the survivors given British citizenship?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Ай бұрын

There wouldn't have been quite the same concept. People were free to move within the Empire back then.

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The movie was rubbish