The Lost Battalions
Discussion
grumbledoak said:
If you think these programs are tough, go to Tyne Cot, or the Serre Road, or the service at the Gate, or the Dawn one for Anzac Day. 
on my list. I have marched with my Dad on Remembrance Sunday, and once with his medals after he died, but still want to visit the WW1 cemeteries... Pothole said:
but still want to visit the WW1 cemeteries...
It is worth doing. In fact, I think EVERY School kid should be taken across to Flanders and Ypres to visit the cemetaries, because it really, really hits home when you see row upon row upon row of crosses. And then the names on the wall..I watched this and found it really sad as I've got great uncles who served in the Seaforth Highlanders still buried under the fields of Loos after the first great push of the new army.
I've never really thought about the impact on the family back in Penicuik. The fact that they could never have closure by seeing a marked grave. Try to imagine your boys are laying dead in a field (and still are!!) and your unable to put them to rest. Horrid!
Watching this has given me the urge to go the the fields and pay my respect to them all.
Lost but not forgotten
I've never really thought about the impact on the family back in Penicuik. The fact that they could never have closure by seeing a marked grave. Try to imagine your boys are laying dead in a field (and still are!!) and your unable to put them to rest. Horrid!
Watching this has given me the urge to go the the fields and pay my respect to them all.
Lost but not forgotten
Very well made documentary. Was not predictable like other programmes in a similar vein as not all the families had their relative found. Fanella Tillier's comments at the end of the programme were very moving when she found Charles Phipps name on the memorial wall were better than any politician has ever said. She was a proper character too. Had also had a great sense of humour, loved her on the mobility scooter at St Pancras station.
I liked that the bodies were treated as humans and not something from an archaeological dig as you often see on other documentaries and that they were not filmed.
The way the Commonwealth War Graves Commission think of certain things is very moving like the way the bodies were buried in the new cemetery next to soldier they were found next to in the mass grave and how it was constructed to match the other WWI cemeteries. I have just discovered that the main cross is orientated to give a direct line of sight to the Cross at VC Corner Cemetery where 410 unidentified Australian soldiers who also died at Fromelles are buried.
I liked that the bodies were treated as humans and not something from an archaeological dig as you often see on other documentaries and that they were not filmed.
The way the Commonwealth War Graves Commission think of certain things is very moving like the way the bodies were buried in the new cemetery next to soldier they were found next to in the mass grave and how it was constructed to match the other WWI cemeteries. I have just discovered that the main cross is orientated to give a direct line of sight to the Cross at VC Corner Cemetery where 410 unidentified Australian soldiers who also died at Fromelles are buried.
The Highway Man said:
I also watched this program, unbelievably moving. For an ex military copper, I was sat there with eyes like pandas and tears streaming down my face. It must have been very dusty in my living room.
I was close to tears, I kept remembering how I felt when at the Ypres cemetary etc. and what it must have been like for those blokes to go straight into a wall of bullets knowing they had little hope of getting through it.It was a massively moving show, which I thought was not over the top nor too "souped up for TV".
A friend (another former RMP) visited the war cemetery in Arnhem in the late 80's, that was very moving. Even more moving were the locals who greeted us like long lost brothers when they found out we were (at the time) British forces.
Edited by The Highway Man on Friday 23 July 14:30
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