Somme Trip 2006

From the annual Battlefield visit by Wath Comprehensive School. A series of clips set to June Tabor's Flowers of the forest (no man's land).

The trip led by the best history department in the whole of the UK, Gooders, Champers, THE Cooney, Stato and Anton de Fru Fru!!!!

Thanks for a wonderful, memorable visit!

We Shall Remember Them

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• somme
• ww1
• war
• ypres
• june
• tabor
• battlefield
• wath
• on
• dearne
• upon
• comprehensive

[wesmatron]

Part of that vid is shot at 'Fat Jack's'. He has a shop on the site selling medals. He also (to a trained eye) digs a lot of the 'original' trenches himself. Anything for a few Francs eh?

[abooth202]

Yes, our Teacher at the time said that the trenches weren't original, and rather 'recreated'.

[FenricsToast]

Shoving a camera in a graveyard is not art, nor does it make for "oh-so-moving" viewing.

Your sub-par attempt at both disgusts me.

[abooth202]

.I would like you to know the following. I have the utmost respect for the War Graves Commission and the men that died for Britain in both World Wars. I did not just 'shove' a camera in a graveyard, I gained permission off the trip leader, who is the most emotional and knowledgable man I know when it comes to The Great War, and I know for certain that if he thought it disprespectful to film in a Cemetery, he would have restricted me from doing so...

[abooth202]

...This video is not a form of 'art', only a moving tribute to a moving trip around the battlefields of Belgium, a trip that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

[Sumer61]

Very moving. I was in tears when I saw the age on the toombstone, he was just 15! And another great version of "Waltzing Matilda", is done by The Pogues.

[abooth202]

Thankyou all for your kind comments, and thankyou to CFR206 and Sumer61 for recommending The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. It's a beautiful song. I may make a video set to this song, so stay tuned.

[batlin]

Hard not to weep for all the young soldiers who died in vain in the most dreadful of circumstances on all sides. War is the enemy.

[ShadowsOracle]

This is such a powerful, beautiful song -- the one song I come closest to crying in everytime I listen to it.

The regret and overwhelming feel of sadness at the wastefulness of war seeps through every note and word. A truly moving song and the video suits it perfectly.

[gallowayschools]

Thanks for uploading video!

[canciones3]

For who's still alive, we can search for truth, find God and place hope in his promises for the future.

For them, we'll trust God to fulfill his promise: Acts 24:15. :,)

[Norfolkscot]

I have seen the criticism of some aspects of this film. I have the honour of being the son of a soldier in the 51st Highland Div who fought on the Somme and was badly wounded at High Wood. I know that he would have uttered no word of criticism. Instead he would have thanked, as I do now, the makers of the film who refuse to allow the dead, his friends and comrades, to be forgotten.

[MissyAMAT]

I love this song, sad as it is. It makes me think of a memorial near me

"When you go home tell them of us and say

for your tomorrow we gave our today"

[singingforeva]

just come back of this trip with wath comp :D went to exactly the same places :) amazing trip!!!!

[flatus69]

is anyone else looking forward to a new June Tabor cd?It has been quite a while since "Apples".

[dazzajlee]

We will remember them! x

[sentesteng]

I always found this song moving, but watching this video today as my 9 yr old son is due to visit Somme tomorrow on a school trip, seeing another school party there and each of those stones and crosses representing somebody's son who never came back, found it even more poignant. (Check out Men They Could Not Hang version too - "Green Fields of France". Very different but equally good.)

[vanserkikkiii]

i couldnt say it better my self. thats just how i feel to.