[2023] WW1 Fieldwalking the Somme battlefields

Let's walk in the footsteps of the Somme battlefield, 108 years later.
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Thanks JH and AL.

[dornierdo]

I worked in a factory making crisps when there was a potato shortage we started getting them from Belgium and went through a phase of getting hand grenades amongst the potatoes.

[markfoster]

The amount of surface finds is amazing. There will be thousands still getting pushed to the surface for years to come. Excellent finds

[LordFlashheart.]

Going to Ypres changed mine and my wife's life forever. Wars are for nothing...as soon as people realise that the better! Elites playing games with us all.

[boxwoodgreen]

It would be interesting to know where the search was done. The Somme is an extensive area. The CWGC had a document with the map co-ordinates of where my great uncle Arthur's remains were found post WW1. They were recorded by the Casualty Clearance Unit that found him, and I'm told they are accurate to 50 feet. That put him in front of the wire of the Regina Trench about 500 yards SW of the Regina Trench Canadian Cemetery.

[MAGNETO__neodym-w-terenie]

Niesamowita ilość rzeczy leżacych na powierzchni 😮
Ciekawe co kryje jeszcze ziemia🤔
Super film🎥👌

Pozdrawiam serdecznie 😊👋

[frankdillon]

the small round donut shaped items are the German potato masher hand grenade pull string grab that is in the handle and gets pulled to start the fuse.

[stuart]

at 6:46 there is enough bone there to warrant reporting to the CWGC - I expect there is more

[lurchlustig]

IT IS sad and cruel, what people did and still do. Peace to every poor man who died in this fields of pain for nothing.

[cbstevp]

I did a bike trip around the Ypres battlefield in Belgium in the late 1990s. At one point I stopped to drink some water. I looked down and there by the side of the road were three large rusty artillery shells very close to my right foot. They must have been dug up from the nearby farmer's field and placed here for the army to come pick them up and dispose of them. I had been warned by the bike rental guy to not touch anything like that. Words to the wise indeed. I quickly put my bottle of water away and pedaled the hell out of there.

[gordongate]

those live rounds, the uniform fragments and the morphine ampule in that small area is a strong indicator that there are a soldiers remains there as well

[TheKubelman]

I think the Belgian farmers call it the Iron Harvest as they till the soil for spring planting. Tons are unearthed every year. Since 1916. Imagine what Ukraine will have to deal with. UXO's. Cluster mines.

[mrzogs]

La mémoire de la terre 😢❤💪 let’s we Forget, mon arrière grand père repose en paix quelque part la bas !

[VintageJohnstown]

Thanks for all the battlefield walks you do. Simply amazing!

[Stealfos]

As always interesting and fun to watch.

[jet-zr]

How in hell my grandfather survived these killing field's is a miracle. Passed long ago when i was a kid. RIP grandpa, greatly missed.

[PascalEcureuil-qvex]

J'ai trouvé plein de choses là-bas j'ai hâte d'y retourner😊

[paulday-lhmx]

Just amazing. The ghosts of the past are coming out to haunt the way humanity is heading.

[antonycoe]

As a 12 year old, I metal detected the banks of the Thames at Woolwich.
The old arsenal site.
We turned off the detector because their was just thousands of .303 live rounds sticking in the mud.
I took home a bucketful...plus some other warheads which we never identified.

[GaryArmstrongmacgh]

Amazing to see what still lies around!

[bobconnor]

One must read about The Somme region of the Western Front to appreciate the sporadic carnage that occurred there, especially the big push of 1916, a battle of attrition initiated by French and British forces, lasted for several weeks with little gain and great loss of life.