Hunting Down The Graves Of Noble Soldiers From the Battle of the Somme | Combat Dealers

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Bruce is trying to identify two soldiers who were awarded a medal for bravery on the first day of The Somme. However, with so many unidentified soldiers buried at the memorial site, it may be much more difficult than he expected. Find out the moving story behind these soldiers and their contribution during the war here.
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  • @lukedelport8231
    @lukedelport82315 жыл бұрын

    RIP all the truly brave men who gave their lives may it never happen again WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

  • @Wolfsschanze99

    @Wolfsschanze99

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lest we forget

  • @johnbobbitt756
    @johnbobbitt7565 жыл бұрын

    God bless them for checking into this

  • @JohnMckinney-ix1ow
    @JohnMckinney-ix1ow9 ай бұрын

    Thanks Bruce. For doing this show...people need to know and remember.

  • @williamdmason9375
    @williamdmason93755 жыл бұрын

    ""THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW.......LEST WE FORGET "".

  • @stevenhenry7862
    @stevenhenry78625 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video and really interesting to follow the investigation to find out more about him. God Bells Fisher M.M. and thank you for your service, where gave your today, for our tomorrow. I salute you From a British Veteran

  • @StaceyIsles

    @StaceyIsles

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Steven for your service as well. From Canada O7

  • @ade-1772
    @ade-17725 жыл бұрын

    Great video and total respect for all soliders

  • @potatominded1370
    @potatominded13705 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful how Bruce talks about it so passionate and honest, lest we forget

  • @davidhawthorne2096
    @davidhawthorne20964 ай бұрын

    Me and son watch. And. Iove it. Thank you. Bruce.

  • @user-hk8ik5xv7p
    @user-hk8ik5xv7p3 жыл бұрын

    Some served under false names because they were too young or too old, others because they had been discharged because they were unfit but they went back, truly a generation of steel backed men that we will never see the likes of again. RIP lads.

  • @thetinhatranch3298
    @thetinhatranch32985 жыл бұрын

    Good on you mate! You have my respect for what you have done for this man!

  • @matthewdickson7838
    @matthewdickson78382 жыл бұрын

    You a re a hell of a guy bruce love what you do keeping the memory alive massive credits to you mate keep up the great work you n your team do 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

  • @robleary3353
    @robleary335310 ай бұрын

    Heroes one and all. Lest we forget. Nuff said.

  • @explosivesmith6444
    @explosivesmith64444 жыл бұрын

    Love that yall took the time to track this down

  • @henerymag
    @henerymag5 жыл бұрын

    24,029 Canadians died at the Somme. 55% have no known grave. Many listed as missing did at one time have a wooden or other marker made by their comrades but were destroyed by artillery fire and lost forever. My Great Uncle is buried in France, KIA Sept.19 1917 he does have a gravestone at the Cabaret Rouge Cemetery in Souchez, France.

  • @StaceyIsles

    @StaceyIsles

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you to your Great Uncle and other service men and woman Less we Forget their sacrifices

  • @agnesrodger3713
    @agnesrodger37135 жыл бұрын

    My great great papa was playing the bagpipes and still came back

  • @derekaxtell3594

    @derekaxtell3594

    5 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather was a Royal Scot Fusillier on the Somme. He came back wounded, he never spoke of what he did and witnessed till the day he passed, grandma said such were the horrors she only knew tiny parts because of the nighmares!!!

  • @williampowell9013

    @williampowell9013

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@derekaxtell3594 Must have been so horrible. We are so lucky to have such brave, courageous men before us. We can only thank each and every solider who took their lives for today’s freedom.

  • @f18_lovermacdonald-doaglau69
    @f18_lovermacdonald-doaglau694 жыл бұрын

    RIP those truly brave men, My Greate-grandfather, Ron Plater got the military cross in New Guinea in ww2. Sadly I never got to meat him becuase he died before I was born.

  • @davidhawthorne2096
    @davidhawthorne20964 ай бұрын

    Very good show

  • @giz.ian.
    @giz.ian.5 жыл бұрын

    when will Quest add more full seasons to purchase ?

  • @presidentjohnhenryeden9450
    @presidentjohnhenryeden94503 жыл бұрын

    Even though their bodies, have long since returned to dusts Their sacrifice lives on, We must strive to cherish their memory, and never forget

  • @johnstewart9745
    @johnstewart97453 жыл бұрын

    God bless them all .

  • @madmeerkat1158
    @madmeerkat11585 жыл бұрын

    Brave men all-NEVER FORGOTTEN

  • @allanarmstrong4333
    @allanarmstrong43335 жыл бұрын

    I just hope he respects the work the twins do. And the rest of them. He seems a good bloke. No messin And honest,. Just hope it aint for the camera.

  • @jimanderson6544
    @jimanderson65444 жыл бұрын

    Wee need an episode on Freddie himself, what he went through was no picnic either

  • @Coconut7403
    @Coconut74035 жыл бұрын

    There surely must be a database where they could have looked that up...

  • @ethanfoster8338

    @ethanfoster8338

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rj Rj It probably was to long ago, even if there was the database wouldn’t have accurate probably

  • @Coconut7403

    @Coconut7403

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ethanfoster8338 No, I mean that they didn't have to go to the monument because the people who carved the names into it must have had a database

  • @connordarnbrough6284
    @connordarnbrough62843 жыл бұрын

    Res in peace Sirell Arthur Fisher as well as every other allied soldier who fell alongside him. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

  • @Verdunveteran
    @Verdunveteran3 жыл бұрын

    It's an interesting story but I have to call bullshit on part of it. The trenches visited here are those perserved at the Newfoundland Memorial Park. The Newfounland Caribou statue is clearly visible in the background more than once in the latter part of the clip. On 1 July 1916 this was the jump-off positions of the 1st Battalion of the Newfounland regiment, that was part of the 88th Brigade of the British 29th Infantry Division. This is the entire reason why these trenches were preserved in the first place as the ground was purchased by the Canadian province of Newfoundland in 1921 to create this memorial parc. Otherwise the trenches and the shell craters would have been filled in by the locals after the war to become farmland again. Just like 90% of the Entente and German Somme-frontline from 1 July 1916 was. The 2nd Battalion of South West Borderers spoken off in this video also belonged to the 29th Infantry Divison, but the 87th Brigade. However they did not attack from these trenches on 1 July 1916. Their jump-off positions were on a different part of the 29th Infantry Divisions frontage further north. So there is no chance at all that C.A. Fisher's remains rests were Bruce claims they do in this clip. Bruce and the production simply went to the only perserved part of the front line open to the public that is dating from the morning of the 1 July 1916 on the Somme sector. It's more likely that C.A. Fisher's remains rests under a headstown marked Unknown but to God in the British war cemetary closest to the actual jump-off position of his battalion that would be the Hawthorne cemetary. And if his remains still rests were he was killed it's not that close to the Newfoundland Memorial, but in or infront of the South Wales Borderers jump-off position further to the north.

  • @darinfisher989
    @darinfisher9898 ай бұрын

    C Fisher was my grandfather.. the reason he used false name was because he was only 13 when he joined World War I.... he joined the Navy first under his brothers birth certificate. After 1 years in the Navy they found out. discharged from the Navy.Then joined the army under the the name in this show... he was born in 1903

  • @mikepalm6452
    @mikepalm64527 ай бұрын

    We can never thank them enough...I despair where we are at this moment in time....our politicians and parts of the establishment don't even want to defend our borders from migration....thanks for giving your lives for us...

  • @charliegreer4507
    @charliegreer45075 жыл бұрын

    This is a reupload. I remember u guys posted this about a year ago. Also, when r u guys gonna repost the Normandy Panther restoration?

  • @williamdmason9375
    @williamdmason93755 жыл бұрын

    The only thing is upperclass subject could be exempt from conscription.....while men of lower class were through peer pressure etc into service and the conditions were hell no doubt and the top brass were 30 miles inside the lines and living in luxury......today this wouldn't happen there would a civil war....The ruling elites are now on the back foot Royalty etc don't hold the same reverence that they had then even though they're were of German ancestry Saxo coburg gotha changed to windsor for fear of revolution and today royals have changed with the times but nobody should be above or below someone we all go where we came from 6ft of Earth dugout and covers is all ....Ifor one will never forget ....ever again

  • @karolpaprocki8106
    @karolpaprocki81063 жыл бұрын

    What's the melody at the begining?

  • @seyiewhiso2783
    @seyiewhiso27835 жыл бұрын

    Yipee more ww2 stuff or ww1

  • @classicxd9293
    @classicxd92935 жыл бұрын

    Why did the soldier at 4:26 lay there?

  • @tadanohiro5065

    @tadanohiro5065

    5 жыл бұрын

    I don't know but I think his morale decreased by all the German weaponary

  • @classicxd9293

    @classicxd9293

    5 жыл бұрын

    that one duck Maybe I often see soldiers like him in clips so I wonder if perhaps it was fear or if he was meant to?

  • @cristianvandenbosse8989

    @cristianvandenbosse8989

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@classicxd9293 probably fear the sad thing is that if he didn't go over the top the MP would shoot him on the spot. Or he Just Fell.

  • @Alanoffer
    @Alanoffer2 жыл бұрын

    Cyril fisher must have lied about his age to join the army ,

  • @jimm6095
    @jimm60954 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Haig - homicidal incompetence!

  • @gou948
    @gou9483 жыл бұрын

    Bit of a shame the lady with you couldnt buy a British Legion poppy. Insyead she wears a cheap chinese copy.

  • @grease8006
    @grease80065 жыл бұрын

    87 views, 8 likes, 1 comment. I don’t see any comments ( except from mine ) so..WHO MADE KZread DRUNK?????!!!!!

  • @robertmunoz7543
    @robertmunoz7543 Жыл бұрын

    With Elizabeth gone in 2022 the monarchy may not continue with liberal attitude the offspring have!😳 Jman

  • @luketipping4721
    @luketipping47215 жыл бұрын

    (4:25) Look at that coward to the right.

  • @vcvbrrory2269

    @vcvbrrory2269

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lets see you run straight into machine guns then knowing full well your probably dead you have no right to call them cowards

  • @jantimmer5558

    @jantimmer5558

    5 жыл бұрын

    He was shot dead.

  • @cristianvandenbosse8989

    @cristianvandenbosse8989

    3 жыл бұрын

    Luke do you have any respect in your body?

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