10 British/Commonwealth Songs From The Boer War

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Goodbye Dolly Gray 0:00
Sons of Our Empire 2:36
Waltzing Matilda 6:16
Bill 'Awkins 7:29
The Baby's Name 9:14
The Absent-Minded Beggar 11:26
Strathcona's Horse 14:54
Bravo! Dublin Fusiliers! 18:08
Soldiers of the Queen 20:32
Marching on Pretoria 21:19
5 of the songs on this video were performed by Michael Halliwell and David Miller. Here is the playlist I found these songs on:
• When the Empire Calls

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@patrioticarchive 2 жыл бұрын

0:00 Goodbye Dolly Gray 2:36 Sons of Our Empire 6:16 Waltzing Matilda 7:29 Bill 'Awkins 9:14 The Baby's Name 11:26 The Absent-Minded Beggar 14:54 Strathcona's Horse 18:08 Bravo! Dublin Fusiliers! 20:32 Soldiers of the Queen 21:19 Marching on Pretoria

@aoaoaya1 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing compilation! But still, Boers are soldiers to respect, they resisted like lions.

@patrioticarchive 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! And agreed, no one would deny them that.

@DerMarschliedKamerad 2 жыл бұрын

Based compilation

@restal7517 2 жыл бұрын

I'd also just relatively recently found the "When The Empire Calls" album. Quite a treasure.

@emissary8513 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome......I would like to add here The Boys of the Southern Cross....it is awesome

@patrioticarchive 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! That song just missed out unfortunately.

@alangray1568 Жыл бұрын

Goodbye Dolly Grey was actually written during the Spanish-American war which pre-dated the Boer War, that it is normally associated with.

@matthewlaurence3121 2 ай бұрын

I seem to recall it was actually published in 1897, just before that war. It’s popularity in the anglophone realm, at the turn of the century, has enshrined it as a classic among commonwealth nations.

@jollyswashbuckler 2 жыл бұрын

A good march from this era is "kiss me mother darling" its seems to be going extinct, it would make for a good video, keep up the excellent productions

@FRANKTHRING1 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful , just beautiful....

@derargent4692 Жыл бұрын

General Buller doesn’t deserve the criticisms he gets, he saved Natal and George White. He was the first of the generals to adapt to Boer tactics such as using creeping barrages, stopping Botha’s shenanigans. Secondly he greatly redeemed himself with the capturing of 9,000 Boers and Laing Nek far outweighed his reverses at Colenso or Spion Kop in terms of killed or captured personnel. Alas, the British army’s factionalism between Lord Roberts and Wolseley is to blame.

@GrumpyAustralian Жыл бұрын

The problem in those days was the "Indian" Generals vs "African" Generals! The war was run by the "Indian" Generals who side lined the "African" Generals and Buller was a "African" General!

@MonarchistMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent compilation my friend

@chloeew4627 Жыл бұрын

Excellent. STH Africa needs leadership , what a mess..

@forlorn8575 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of most of these songs

@user-ve8qz8go8u Жыл бұрын

What about the song "The Road to Gundegai"? (a tiny town in New South Wales, I think). I have just been reading "The Covenant" by James Michener which is why I looked up "Marching to Pretoria" on You Tube. So much warfare, so much death; every tiny settlement in New Zealand with a World War memorial to the young men lost. These songs keep us in touch with the past.

@qlder0284 Жыл бұрын

The Road to Gundagai wasn't written until 1922, two entire decades after the Boer War ended. I don't deny its significance to us in Australia, but it doesn't belong in this playlist. Nevertheless, if you're planning on doing a WW2 playlist, it'd be great if you included it there :)

@johnbest4513 2 жыл бұрын

A much forgotten war, which Britain lost in military terms, but won politically. Makes a change from all the war since then. GSTK.

@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 Жыл бұрын

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@NihilsineDeo1866. 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video mate as alaways :)🇬🇧

@acidpunker1 Жыл бұрын

So proud of my great grandfathers who fought the Boers. Destroyed the evil aggressors. One relieved Ladysmith from the Boer invasion and the other conquered Pretoria then rounded up the fanatics.

@armandbruwer2651 Ай бұрын

"aggressors", tell that Jamson and his mates

@bill2578 8 күн бұрын

A barely remembered past, but these songs represent us British at a time when the Empire meant something to us , right or wrong, but I saw the right of it in Aden before it was given away by a new class of- semi-aware - Politicians who did that, knowingly, of what they were giving away . The men who sang Dolly Grey back then, would, I am sure, rise from their graves if possible to be able to fight and destroy all that has afflicted our once proud nation in this time of betrayal, again , by our own kind. The Boers were the enemy, sure, but they weren't evil, not like our present enemy within who have flooded us with people who have never heard of Dolly Grey-or of the class of men who sang it. I can only hope that some Churchillian figure rises up to remind us of that before It's too late.