The Actual "Unknown Soldier" - Remembrance Day - WW1

[noodle409]

God love the Brits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[isaac1665]

....the story behind ours is so poignant, the devotion to duty with the sentinals in USA is incredible........just to think, that even now, there is a guard, protecting the tomb, making the 21 steps, 21 seconds pause...............we both know how to look after our lost...........we buried him with kings, America decided he would be protected until he is known............75 yrs later he still has a permanent guard..............

[isaac1665]

I've watched this loads of times (most weekends) in the last year,......up to about a month ago it had 10k views, now its got 15k..........I'm sure this is due to armistice day....however, all the comments are the same......."just seen this and blown away", e.t.c. ........, the reality is other countries have since copied this, but this was the original.......I would suggest watching America's unknown soldier.............

[tracey19711999]

that was soooo poignant and touchin......xx

[Biggles27]

When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today

[SBLENKINSOP54]

How sad to see this remarkable film, it does bring it home to you about the horrors of war and how many innocent young people never return, and you could say, that all this and more, has been, or is caused by politicians!!!!

[zupantrzyglowa]

and to think I once saw tourists walk over this grave, as a Soldier I stopped them and asked the Dean of Westminster why this can happen... Lest we forget our mortality.



[Tzarina69]

The modern day music and the monkey spoilt what was an excellent film.

[smgs2627]

Wow...I wasn't prepared for that. Very touching...yep, I'm crying. It really brought home the significance of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

[stepgx]

Awe, and inexpressible sadness. Am bereft of words.

[JeffHokie]

PSari, this was probably one of the most moving videos I've seen on YouTube. Thank you so much for making this!

[arwel63]

@psari Thank you very much for this tribute my grandfather was a soldier during the great war I never got to know him he was one of the lucky ones I was also a british soldier .

[trespire]

So much loss. So many many mothers and widows placing flowers at the Cenotaph.

[Lewi008]

The poor men, little more than kids. Sent off to fight for the greatest nation on earth. They did us proud. The UK lives on as a free country only thanks to the sacrifice of our granfathers. And Muslim terroists think they destroy our country by bombing london? They dont know what are fighting against. I will happily die to preserve the freedom of Britain and her people.

[B10NICBURITO]

@Lewi008 Terrorists don't have to be muslims. 

[Lewi008]

@B10NICBURITO Did I say they did?

[lvg74]

In my personal opinion I think it was tastefully done, what an emotional video. Does the music really matter? It does not make one iota of a difference of the impact of the video has on you? Anyway nice vid loved everything about it even the music.

[dolydd30]

Anyone know the modern music half way through please?

[lvg74]

@dolydd30 If i lay here. Snow patrol :)

[simplyguys]

Bravo *****5*****

[SkinPuff]

Dude, I think you did a wonderful job on this!. Very tasteful and informative, a beautiful tribute to all of the pour souls who sacrificed themselves for their country. @Gardanos There are some videos, threads etc that just should not be trolled, and this is one of them. Shame on you.

[SkinPuff]

Dude, I think you did a wonderful job on this!. Very tasteful and informative, a beautiful tribute to all of the pour souls who sacrificed themselves for their country. @Gardanos There are some videos, threads etc that just should not be trolled. Shame on you.

[dolydd30]

seize the moment its all in good taste however old you are we shall remember! you can't take it away from those who have served and still serving

[Gardanos]

is he dead ???

[Isthisthelongestname]

The middle part of the video with the pop music is just awful....

[Ivanhoe2]

@Isthisthelongestname I agree with you, that noise was tasteless, and totally out of place! However, I thought the rest was splendid and the soothing accompaniment appropriate..

[silvesterdavis]

We have to guard ourselves against over indulgence. If you look closely at this remarkable film, you will notice how reverent the soldiers are...as in the careful spreading of the Union Jack over the coffin. They are making a conscious effort not to intrude. As we watch neither should we, by use of Trade mark monkeys or modern popular music."

[seetahpimpkin1]

VespaT the words are not in question.........difficult as they are to hear over the too strident 'pop' music.........there are plenty of ways of accompanying violence than with overburdening pop music. The selfindulgent shot of the monkey trade mark spoils the opening sequence in a similar way.

[TheUndertaker323]

very moving indeed ,lovely music Van Gellis that is

[seetahpimpkin1]

This is a very intense and moving film. It is totally spoiled for me by the disjointed opening and the totally wrong music at 5 minutes in which demonstrates the culture gap between then and now. . .

[VespaT]

@seetahpimpkin1 , If you listen to the words of the song, they are as moving as anything by Binyon, Owen or Sassoon

[seetahpimpkin1]

This is a very intense and moving film. It is totally spoiled for me by the disjointed opening and the totally wrong music at 5 mins in which demonstrates the culture gap between then and now.

[Parric74]

This brought tears to my eyes.

I had shivers down my spine knowing that the Unknown Warrior will never know how he has allowed so many mothers, fathers, wives and children to grieve for there loved ones who will never be found to this day. He represents every lost soldier in every war and I thank him for that.

[moodindigo72]

we will never forget...

the unknown soldier

[TVVEREADORTIAOBRASIL]

MY PHATER BRAZILIAN IN 2ª WAR IN EUROPE IN 1943 , NOW DEATH , REMEMBER ...REMEMBER....

[theslowjoker]

one of the best videos/movies i have ever seen, was very emotional and very touching, was just truly amazing and its to those fallen men and women that we have our tomorrow...we will always remember them...R.I.P

[spratman1100]

They gave their tomorrows, for our today. At this time of year never ever forget the debt owed by so many to so few.........

[TricksterUK]

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

[kinkymaturekevin]

The Least We Can Do Is Remember Them...All of Them.

[Kittensarecute111]

I thought the Olympia brought the soldier back...(Ignore last comment, misspelled the ship's name)

[phillippatterson1]

As a American I found the film very stirring and well done. The British who "invented" the idea of the unknown soldier which all other nations have copied. This first ceremony has the undercurrent of a nation who has grasped the great calamity of losing 1 out of 7 of their young men.

[stoneill1]

@phillippatterson1

It was the idea of Rev David Railton early in the war after seeing the combat grave of a British Soldier maked with a hasty cross of scrap wood and inscribed "Unknown British Soldier"

[london1st]

The British Armed Forces!! Absolute heroes!! Remember them and Honour them always!!

[6326893]

what an amazing and moving video thanks you so much for posting it

[ccclllsport]

for all i know this could be my great grandad

[Snedger]

Never seen this piece of film before. The burial of our Unknown Warrior gave enormous comfort to those families who had lost someone. He came back home across the Channel to Britain and he could have been any one of the nameless thousands who simply disappeared in the mud of the Western Front. A moving tribute. Many thanks Psari.

[pinknblues1]

This is so tragically moving!

[TheUchihagirl12]

What is the name of the sad music throughout this fantastic video?

[davehussar]

I've never been so moved by a movie, as what I was watching your brilliant movie. I was stationed in Berlin at the hight of the cold war 1977-84 and visited the war graves in Berlin, I also visited the Belsen consentration camp, and have to say your movie moved me far more, I was weeping like a child, just seeing thoses mothers laying the wreaths brought home to me the suffering and loss.

FOR WHAT? Lets hope this never hapens again. Once more WELL DONE FAB Movie

[billlamin]

Very, very good. I enjoyed it very much. I have become immersed in Great War material with my own book. This video extended into the fascinating aftermath.

What does a nation do when it has slaughtered a huge proportion of its young men.

[4thRIDG]

Simply fantastic. Thank you so much for this wonderfully evocative film. It is a fitting tribute to a generation now past but who will never be forgotten. God bless you.

[2323winston]

Fantastic video, thank you so much for posting. It should be watched by everyone, to learn the sacrifices made by brave men in WW1 for all our benefit. God bless all the Unknown Soldier's around the world.

[kennyt1230]

Amazing footage--thanks for posting.

[Thomcrib]

I didnt realise there was footage of his funeral!

Excellent video mate,five stars!!

I've seen his tomb and it's fitting he is in a place of honour like that,we owe him everything...

[JoleyLover158]

ive never heard of this but its really sad i cried watching it and my grandad was with me when i watched it and he was nearly crying

[acerlutra]

I thought that in Britain he is known as the Unknown Warrior.

[NotoriousMannk]

By exhuming his body from specific battlefields, through uniform identification and through the level of decay of his remains, they purposely chose a man who would have been a memeber of the original British Expiditionary Force. Also the flag over the coffin belonged to a padre who had carried it with him throughout the war and was stained with the blood of British soldiers. It hangs today in Westminster Abbey.

[plobloo]

Excellent piece of work ,very moving,well done.

[hapag16]

Excellent Psari.  Thankyou.