Excellent. It’s hard to be confronted with it, but the truth speaks for itself.

Very interesting episode, as always. Thanks for your hard work.

PERCIVAL ,well he did rather worse later when he surrendered Singapore to the Japanese.

Loving the series. I would like to see the Balyseedy Ambush covered..

Lovely work with new photos newly discovered channel so this will keep me busy.

Another well-researches and produced episode. I'm learning a lot about the detailed happenings around the war of independence through your programmes. Thank you.

@TheIrishNationLives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad to hear you're learning something from the videos, that's the main goal!

Great stuff

@TheIrishNationLives

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Excellent stuff. One small 'typo'' though. The soldier photographed at 2:00 the Curragh I believe is an Irish Army soldier.

@TheIrishNationLives

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like you are right, well spotted. It's the worst thing about all these photographs being in black and white.

@heritage195

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheIrishNationLives And all you need is someone to spot it and tell you :-)

Singapore was surrendered to the Japanese without a shot being fired, their shame reflected on the British Army.

@Kitiwake

2 жыл бұрын

There were plenty of shots fired. The Japanese bombarded Singapore from the Malay mainland and some British led units, mainly Australians, engaged them in order to slow them down. But yes, an executive decision was made by British GHQ in Singapore to surrender. This involved also the surrender of thousands of freshly arrived Indian troops who never got their chance to "fire a shot".

@freebeerfordworkers

Жыл бұрын

@@Kitiwake As well as British. Some troops had been on their way to Egypt by the Cape route when they were redirected to Singapore. As a result their heavy equipment had not been combat loaded but sent out separately because it could be sorted out when they got to Egypt consequently half of it was scattered in ships over the Far East. It's unfair to blame Percival for the disaster at Singapore that was actually Winston Spencer Churchill's foul up for repeatedly ignoring military advice for his own schemes but as a politician he did a good job of covering it up.

I wonder if Frank Crozier is a descendant of Francis Crozier of the doomed Franklin NW Passage Expedition.

Thank heaven for Irish volunteers in the British Armed Forces.

Some stats say that the average age of an Auxiliary was 30, not 20 as given here, with 81% of recruits being born between 1885 and 1899.

@billycaspersghost7528

3 жыл бұрын

Twenty is too young to have been in WW1 and rated officer ,and developed a savage thirst for booze.

@johnj.anthonymcquade6876

3 жыл бұрын

@@billycaspersghost7528 20s a grown man if those so called soldiers want to die for britain let them go die and leave our island of ireland to our own affairs

They were not soldiers,but paid killers,those that were soldiers in world war 1 had in Ireland given up any idea of discipline or decency,as for the Essex regiment,cockneys who hated the Irish then as they still do now,truth hurts.Irish young people in the republic have forgotten this history.

@odonnchada9994

2 жыл бұрын

Forgive Dont Forget? ☘🇮🇪

@henrysevern

2 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of people in the Essex County who were born on the island of Ireland or are descendants of people born there. I presume you are aware of this?

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

True

@mike_oxlong4387

Жыл бұрын

Essex 💪🏻

@freebeerfordworkers

Жыл бұрын

Many British regiments who had been stationed peacefully in Ireland for years just didn't want to know. The King's Liverpool Regiment also called the Liverpool Irish had many first generation Irish soldiers and could not be expected to be too enthusiastic opponents of the IRA. The colonel was a keen fisherman and wrote to the local IRA for a safe conduct when he wanted to go fishing.

Ireland will be clean when there's no British occupation.

@Ann65.

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Johnst5on Mooney O'Brien Bakersw still on the go today despite the tank propelled battering ram ? 9/02 09.15 is a mix of regiments not Essex

do you do any operations of the early 1970s with the official/provisional ira that'd be interesting

@raymaxwell2940

3 жыл бұрын

Go read some propaganda like the magazine An phoblacht if bombing woman and children gets you excited you work away thats part of the reason it will take a long time before we trust you lot again up here in ulster anyway as someone that has lost family members to IRA bombs nothing glamorous or heroic sitting behind a hedge a mile away detonating a bomb you will find that many old IRA vets did not agree targeting civilians some 50 60 years later

@Londubh1

3 жыл бұрын

@@raymaxwell2940 amadán

Common Essex W

Auxiliaries and Tans? Simply put? Pure scum and lowlifes. Lowest of the low