The Battle of Amiens, 1918

Time to pump up your speakers! This video shows the horrors of the battle of Amiens in 1918. Please comment and express your opinions.

Clips were put together by me but belong to "20th Century Battlefields"

Songs:

The Lion King - This Land
The Last Samurai - Idyll's End

Try to distinguish the 3 different chapters in the video.

Quastito!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Battle
• Amiens
• 1918
• France
• WW1
• World
• War
• One
• Great
• Hundred
• Days

[Brutuss75]

we are lucky that we live in our times they had to be heroes...[*]

[MARKLStudios]

I swear to God I've heard the intro music somewhere before..........

[WJHHunterston]

My Great Uncle was there as a gunner in the Canadian 5th Division Artillery. The war diaries posted online (Canadian Veterans) state that his unit, the 52nd Field Battery in the 13th Brigade, conducted fire using anti-tank 18 pound guns. I can only guess this meant they were the ones to recieve the worlds first armor piercing rounds against the A7V German tanks. There weren't many of these German tanks, but they were used in Amiens.

[mackintosh1967]

@wattlebough Yes indeed. Amiens 1918 was a more important and significant achievement. It just wasn't the "first great offensive" as stated in the vid. Of course, again, this depends on which standard you use to determine 'greatness'.

[wattlebough]

@mackintosh1967 Vimy Ridge was a great achievement, but Amiens was what broke the deadlock of trench warfare, and Amiens also broke the morale of the Germans. Amiens was also much larger than Vimy Ridge. The entire Canadian Corps, Australian Corps, French, UK and US troops broke through the German lines on a 24km front to a depth of 14km on the first day, with the Aussies and Canadians at the center in the deepest point. This offensive *ended* WW1. Therefore it was more important than Vimy.

[mackintosh1967]

The first great offensive?!? What about Vimy Ridge? I guess this depends on how one defines what is ‘great’. Also, strictly speaking I don’t see much in the way of horrors in this video. It is nice though that you have taken the time to commemorate what is one the greatest and mostly unknown moments in Canadian history.

[Luvinjazzy69]

Im doing a 5 page report on the battle of amiens, can you tell me a few sites where you got the majority of the information posted? Thank you so much.

[Playa17lol]

Great Video! The music fits in perfectly to the scenes!

Best regards from Germany!

[ascoop22]

Actually there was only one US regiment that was involved,not a division, and only on the second day. They also started firing at the enemy on a hill on their flank that turned out to be Australians who had already captured it. The French were involved with an army right from the start of the first day and later threw in two more French armies on the right flank when the Germans began falling back.

[wattlebough]

Not that many mate. About 48,000 Aussies died on the Western Front between 1916-1918 in total.

The worst day for the Aussies was on 19th July 1916 at Fromelles, 1299 Aussies killed, 4,000 wounded and 400 captured in under 14 hours. The 5th Division AIF was nearly wiped out.

The worst year for the Aussies was 1917, over 15,000 Aussies were killed, at Menin Road, Messines & Passchendaele.

About 8,000 Aussies died in their 8 months at Gallipoli (from 25th April 1915 to 21st December 1915).