"War is a place where young people who don't know each other, and don't hate each other, kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other, and hate each other, but don't kill each other"

It's exactly as those named "Hero" always say. They weren't the heroes. The heroes are the ones who never made it out alive. And why is it that the worst of human activities always brings out the very best of human nature?
Thank you for another great recollection of our dark and illuminating past.

War is Hell.

12:03 Made me genuinely tear up. That man was a legend

Excellent work. The people who fought and photograph history would be both impressed and grateful.

My dear Great grandad was a coal miner. He joined up to fight, when war broke out. He tunnelled at the Somme, which would have been a living hell.
He survived, and went back to his old life as a miner. People were made of strong stuff back then. I'm very proud of him. ❤

Cant see why these dont have more views

A fascinating story, beautifully told.  Thank you, good sir.

Great stuff.
Highly informative, well presented (by a real human, no less!) with smooth narration of a well-written script. What more could one ask for? All the best from rural East Scotland 👍

Thank you for making these videos they are all truly great!

I bet there's a fascination with WW1 tunnelling because that's what Tommy Shelby was depicted as doing during his service in WW1 in Peaky Blinders

It's understated since everything is already great about your videos, flowing together seamlessly. But the sound design and additional sound effects for emphasis are my favorite part. Love history, thanks for what you do 🙂

Incredible story that I did not even know about. Thanks for your work!

Sorry I'm late. Another great video Sir.

Another very interesting video!

I visited Hill 60 about 10 years ago, and it's absolutely terrifying to even think what these men went through...

Birdsong is a really interesting/compelling book about miners in WW1 too.

Muy buen trabajo. Gracias por la activación de la traducción automática. 👍🏻

These algorithms are so BRUTAL dude it’s a travesty that ai slop history farms will pull views when sincere researched works like this are throttled.

Just know that this work is rly appreciated, and I hope whatever cursed magic controls this website turns its fortunes around for u

Worked at Larkhill Wiltshire on a site, where British and Australian troops practiced tunnelling for these missions.
Very interesting, thanks

2:31 The underground war started in 1914, as soon as deadlock came into place and the same can be said for Britain as they had begun a mine in December 1914, but it was destined to never fire thanks to German trench mortars. 2:47 Its true Britain quickly caught up in the tunnel war  thanks to specialist recruiting, where Germany and France had already milked what they could through the rigid process of conscription. Its true they also took in coal miners, and theyre skill was particularly useful in the hard chalk of the somme. But must we not forget the sewermen who had theyre skills mega useful in the clay which since that fact is almost the no.1 thing to be talked about, i find strangely absent there. Of course though all members of a TC in a clay sector would learn clay kicking anyway thanks to shared knowledge from theyre comrades. 3:29 Yes sandbags got carried back by hand, but then were often thrown to a minecart for efficency, the only catch is that it wasnt used close to the face past a certaint point for reasons already described on the video. 3:36 Is somewhat true, candles remained highly popular with the tunnelers from all sides, but that dosnt mean that lamps were not brought in either. It depended on availability, and sintuation. As obviously you would not want to use a naked candle next to a charge compared to a electric saftey lamp. Yes the candle dimming was a sign of oxygen level, and a skilled miner could tell how long he worked by looking at the candle, the rule of thumb for a british miner was that if the candle kept having light it was safe enough to work. as for detecting deadly gasses, mice or canerys (a bird) were your friend, at least for carbon monoxide. 3:56 Yes both sides combated very, very commonly with the use of camouflet charges. However i wouldnt say "digging to them" as its a bit of a flexible word, a small spur at most, or simply just laid within the tunnel itself, or in specific ground conditions (soft ground) you could use an earth auger or borer to drill a hole to the enemy, and place a cylinder-like explosive at the end. 4:13 Its true that simply pressing your ear to the wall was the most simple way of listening, but there was much evolution to how listening devices were, and many were decided locally on what to use. The british did favour the "French waterbottle" which was a french canteen connected to stethescope ear pieces, or even more so the geophone, another french invention. 5:23 A fun fact about camouflets: being below the enemy has a few advantages when blowing a camouflet, as the downward "kick" of a camouflet is rather weak comapired to the lateral or vertical (up) effect. This means that a much smaller charge could be used with even more devastation that a bigger one that had a tunnel below it. The secondary pro of being under was also a gut at the enemies moral, knowing that they had been undermined stirred hysteria amongst the miners and even the infantry if they got word that theyre own underground defenses are too, undermined. Thats all I have to say, great video and It brought joy to my eyes your channel bringing light to the underground war of ww1, a highly misrepresented and not talked about subject during the war.

Hi 👋 , these man were tuff chaps never let us forget ✌️!greetings from Portsmouth England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧