Your Welcome glad you enjoyed the video.

God bless them all and to the millions who sacrificed their youth and lives for the better of humanity as a whole.

Yes, the German lines ran parallel with the sunken lane where the big bunch of trees are on the right up to and beyond Hawthorn Ridge redoubt

Where they had well trained machine gun posts with converging ranges. Nothing would get through any gaps. Everything that moved was most likely obliterated by repeated fire over the course of the next few hours. If you've read Birdsong, it describes the German snipers spending the afternoon practicing on the corpses' heads.

It's a very special place for me, because of Malins and his film, you can see where everything happened right in front of you.

Malins filmed the Hawthorn Crater explosion, further back towards White City, you can sit in the exact spot. I tokk his photo with me and managed to get a near idential photo.

@@tooyoungtobeold8756 Out of curiosity, what was the focal length of the lens Malins used? Is White City near the road? Thanks. Someone should mark the spot on Google Earth. :)

Thanks for the comment Andrew, we will be going back over in November this year, will look out for it.

Your Welcome Ed...it's one of my favourite places on the Somme

I thought I'd taken a photo of the crater from Malin's position but looks like I was a wee bit wrong

Time to use the miracle of the volume control eh !

Thanks Brian, much appreciated, it's my favourite area on the Somme.

Hi C C...to many people read way to much into a piece of music, I've been going to Ypres and the Somme on the 11th November to pay my respects for over 25 years, and people have the choice to mute the music if the don't like it, i get bored trying to explain, this is simply a drone video to show where Geoffrey Malins filmed The Battle of the Somme film showing the terrain the soldiers encountered, but these self righteous fools would rather comment on a piece of music with no significance to what actually went on here.

I agree but not the music. Far too upbeat for this subject.

@@gazza2933 Agreed. The music doesn't fit.

You think this music is perfect for viewing the sight of a massacre? That shows your mindset a little doesn't it. 🎉

Hi David, Thanks for the comment. The Sunken Lane is one of my favourite places on the Somme. Yes someone else commented that a while back, i was aware of filming in the wrong direction up the lane, my initial plan was to fly the drone down the sunken lane and then fly straight up to Hawthorn Ridge but with the amount of overhanging branches in the lane and the risk of one catching the drone and damaging it. We decided against it.

I get the same feeling seeing the footage of Titanic passenger waving themselves off.

Hi Dave...Thanks for your input, The sunken lane, hawthorn ridge and lochnagar crater are favourite places of mine and very poignant symbols of WW1... as for the music, some folk may or may not like it, but it has no significance for me one way or the other, just others reading to much into drone footage.

No, we were down at the Somme for a day, and ran out of time doing Hawthorn Ridge and had to go back to Ypres.

2:00 Top right, that's Newfoundland Park, where I was yesterday, filming with my drone at the 51st (Highland) Division Memorial. I did fly out to the sunken lane, but mostly focused on the moon landscape of Newfoundland. I'll try to upload this soon and send you a link. :) @@jocktamson275

@@fraserthomson5766 cheers, appreciate that.

Yes have been at White City field walking, i love that whole area around Beaumont-Hamel, there's so much to see. While down at Butte De Warlencourt we came across an unexploded mills as well, still so much ordnance showing up 100 years later at the Iron Harvest. Thanks for your informative comment.

with the state the planet is in, i think the answer to that would be no.

They were confident, but the blatant anti hero is the arrogance of the battle commanders. No surprise, broad daylight, no smoke bombs, superfluous, week long artillery barrage. It's so arrogant it makes me cringe.

read my replies to Vic.

Hi Brian, sure, thats not a problem.

We always go Drive/Ferry to Zeebrugge, stay 3 days in Ypres, then down to the Somme for the remaining time. I hear what your saying about tour companies, We are fortunate that a friend who goes with us is a Battlefield guide and has taken us to some less well known interesting areas over the years. Leger have an itinerary, and do tend to focus on Cemeteries and the more well know areas of the Somme and Ypres, especially when you want to spend a bit of time exploring the area, but they cater mostly for the first time visitor.

tony bairdypops music is like a chilled out beach holding

Jock Tamson Ah, the resort to personal abuse. I always know I’ve won the point when the only thing someone can do is to play the man not the ball. You’re very defensive and need to learn to listen and take other people’s views on board - im not the only one to point out the issues with music and locations. If you’re going to publish things on public platforms like KZfaq you should learn how to take criticism better and if you’re going to defend yourself try not to get emotional, abusive and childish.

Give yourself a rest, you don't need to be an idiot every day of your life....the sychophantic praising of yourself as having won just confirms what a sanctamonious dolt you are.... just read what you have written about taking other peoples views onboard...and let it sink in dummy... you're so full of it, you don't even know you have shot your own argument down. End of conversation, i've wasted enough time on you.

Jock Tamson Ah, touched a nerve. You might do well to re read your own post which is abusive, poorly written, defensive and which fails to address a single criticism that I and others made. For example, you have not once sought to explain why you chose this music, or whether you think that it adds something to the video, or why you chose to film from the wrong angles. I can only assume you don’t know.

at 2.48 it shows where Malins filmed from....his name is MALINS not Mallin.

It's a speck on the glass, probably from a fingerprint

no.

its something on the lens

the music is what it is, it's simple....if you don't like it, turn the volume down...

whatever...if you don't like the music turn the volume down..

Iv'e already replied to comments regarding the music...some like it some don't, the hard fact is, it's not consecrated ground, where nobody is allowed to walk, these are farmers fields now, and it's not meant to be a memorialisation, i'm well aware what went on here, thats why i don't hover the drone up and down over the graves on those fallen like a couple of other youtube videos of the Sunken Lane, it's simply a drone video showing where Malins made the film The Battle of the Somme....nothing else.

Jock Tamson I Guess if you know the history here, it’s a very emotional experience. I helped a Sherwood Forester pull an unexplored trench mortar from the lip of the mine crater opposite where thousands of Germans were killed, let alone appalling slaughter of the Highland Division and the Newfoundlers killed opposite Y ravine. Maybe, probably, I’m overreacting, but the Sunken Lane and the no mans land adjacent are sacred sites to me, imperishable in memory. A place or horror, terror, sacrifice.

by Joe and Ray 4th April 2014 J.R.R. Tolkien (writer of the "The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy") in the Twentieth Century: at the Somme, 1916 Scrape your fingers along your greasy scalp, pick out scabs, bits of lice with your nails. You are a signal officer in the Lancashire Fusiliers and your wife of 4 months, Edith, sings and dances across the Channel from the blood and death and mud which is the Somme. A shell-broken man bleeds on a stretcher, gestures, gargles: you understand and take his locket from around his neck. The weight of words press full on you, even when they are not words, just wet sounds. It's difficult to sleep; when you do, you dream of a mariner blown so far into the endless ocean he's accepted death. But he does not die: he's pulled off the deck of his ship, taught, by beautiful natives of an alien isle, language. A week after your battalion gets shredded on the wire you interrogate a captured German officer, map out enemy locations. He accepts your offered water, corrects your pronunciation, suggests red ink for the man-traps. In twenty years you will argue Beowulf is not a pagan fragment or a poor allegory but is a poem of lights opposing outer-darkness where a man struggles against the beast again and again and again and is overwhelmed.

I do understand that other people have an emotional attachment to areas in the Somme, I go every year on 11/11 to the Menin Gate and then to Thiepval and around the Somme to pay my respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and have done for over 20 years. I've had many conflicting comments regarding the music, some take it for what it is and others seem to be offended in some way, i just get bored explaining it's a drone video showing the areas around the Sunken Lane in Malins film, to give anyone who views the video a birdseye view of the scale and terrain the soldiers faced.

your welcome to your opinion just like everyone else... i've said what i have to say on the music. if you're offended, thats your choice.

Jock Tamson I know I’m welcome to my opinion - it’s a public message board. You haven’t offended me; your video just shows a lack insight and sensitivity. To choose chill out club music to show an environment where thousands died is immature shows poor judgement. You also don’t, for example, show the sunken lane from the same side as the photo you show nor give any explanation as to what events took place or any of the context. Basically this is a gimmick of a video and there are far far better alternatives out there. Mind you, this is the modern generation I suppose. At least you’ve heard about the Somme even if you clearly don’t understand any of it.

Get a life...

Jock Tamson I liked the music sir! Could you tell me the name?

To be perfectly honest, i can't remember what it's called, thats how significant the music is to me. but probably a song by Michael E. it sounds very like the kind of music he makes.

Because i felt like....

Just turn the volume down dopey....

*YAWN* 🙄

Why don't you go and get a life BRUH or turn the music down, either way, get lost.

@@jocktamson275 Lmfao you got triggered as hell over a little constructive Criticism😭😭😭

@@Lucky-sh1dm Bore off sonny...

@@jocktamson275 bro adagio for strings exists and yet you chose this silly ass fucking child’s music. You’re a profound insult to the men who gave their lives on that grass

@@Lucky-sh1dm you have never been to the battlefields or paid respects on 11/11... you are just a troll, looking for a bit of fun...I've given the reason why several times before regarding the music, stop being such bore over a piece of music on a video you sanctimonious fool, this is my last reply to you sonny, so go bore someone else.