in august 1914 The Germans had 80 divisions in the field, the french 75, the BEF was only 6. on august 23 the british on the far left of the allied line met the Germans at Mons, the british regulars were possibly the finest army ever sent into battle, German officers facing their rifle fire reported they had massed machine guns, the germans couldn't imagine rifle fire that fast or accurate, but sheer numbers drove the British back and the collapse of the french required a retreat that ended almost at the gates of paris, and my great grand father, Andrew Burke was there for it all.

John really has a really beautiful voice and he seems to be just as beautiful person as well. I wish I knew him. It would be a real honour and privilege to.

John tams very under rated deserving more recognition

Celer et Audax....inscribed on my soul forever, Thank you John Tams....from an old Rifleman

thanks to ned stark i found sharpe and thanks to sharpe i found richard tam....very veyr grateful to have. his songs haunt me from sharpe ...

Never saw service myself. Born too late and with too many bits that never worked properly. But my grandad, two uncles and a great uncle served in the DLI over a couple of lifetimes. And a couple of lifetimes was the cost. Grandad and an uncle survived - well, mostly they did, give or take a limb or two. I'm not religious, but a pastor moved me close to tears at a Remembrance Day ceremony... "Young people risk more than the old! They sacrifice not just what they are, but everything they might ever have been, ever might have had! Life and loves that would now never be! Families and friends that would never happen! Tell me friends - what did YOU sacrifice today?!"

Thank You Mr. John Tams ~ GOD Bless & keep you & yours always and thank you David Barrs and may the same befall ye lad. Stand to, me bonny lads, Stand to and make you ready. Stand to, me bonny lads, Hold the line right steady. Let bright bands rule the flame; This day shall bear your name. Stand to, me bonny lads, Hold the line right steady. Angels now attend thee............

What a fantastic and moving voice

I am crying my heart up

Very moving from a Yorkshireman god bless..

Very moving - a class act !!

absolutely wonderful so moving

My Mother told me as a young lad, that the most terrifying people in the first world war, were the Telegram boys on Bikes. Mothers used to peep behind the curtains to which houses they went to in the street.

@jackywhite880

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Down our terraced street in the late 1940s was a dear but sad lady who made stottie cake (in a tin bathtub!) and sold it out of her kitchen window to make ends meet. She'd lost her husband in the trenches in WW1, leaving her pregnant with twin boys. She lost both of them in the early stages of WW2. No 'Saving Private Ryan' for those and such as those... But she wasn't so stricken she couldn't find the heart, in her late 50s, to take in a couple of kids left parentless when their house was bombed out (in the same street.) She had her own Private Ryan programme. Both children - a boy and a girl - lived to make her a VERY proud 'Mum.'

Get the museum reopened!

Brave men 👍

A Durham lad thanks you

@jackywhite880

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I remember my late Grandad's favourite joke. (He was in the DLI and left bits of him behind in France.) It was about a Tommy who returns to find his wife has been playing away while he was at the Front. But - she protests tearfully - she had only been unfaithful twice! Once with the Durham Light Infantry and another time with the Northumberland Fusiliers!

I’m in

Oh the futility of war! does it do any good? of course it doesn't and still the young go

@mikewalrus4763

4 жыл бұрын

@Gebert11 Come back and tell me that after you've been covered with the flesh and blood of friends :(

@mikewalrus4763

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry it looks like you are - anybody who says wars are good has got some sort of problem and probably hasn't been through one!

@trevornoneofyourbusiness3692

3 жыл бұрын

To defend against those who would oppress you? There is no nobler calling.

@nigelmacdonald9999

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking Frehnch or German are ee???

@jackywhite880

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The problem of wars fought on principle, according to my late grandad (who left an arm and a leg behind in France) is that those with the principles are invariable a long way to the rear of those sent to do the fighting...