My grandmother lost her brother here at the Battle of Loos, October 13,1915. Harry Coulson was 17 years old. His name is on a plaque in Dud Corner Cemetery Loos, 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters. Lest we forget

Thankyou for this. My Great GrandUncle was in the 6th The Buffs and was at the Hohenzollern Redoubt when he was injured and passed away 2 days later on the 15th Oct 1915. Strange seeing the location of what my GGUncle experienced For King and Country.

I’m so glad to see you producing again Steven. Once again, you have given us another great video.

My grandad, Richard read KRRC.fought at the redoubt in 1915. He was15 years old at the time. Survived the war joined the navy in 1919 died in Dagenham sanitation 1946 from TB

A relative of mine fought here with the 2nd bat RWR. Attacking Hulloch. He was KiA on 1st day (25th Sept 1915) and never recovered. RIP.

Very pleased to see you producing again Steven. Very pleased, indeed.

Your videos will be used by future generations.

My Great-Uncle Daniel was injured on Day One of the Battle of Loos, sustained a severe head injury due to shrapnel. He was sent home to a UK Military Hospital but sadly died 10 months later, due to complications from the brain injury. We Will Remember Them. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love your videos. I have read a lot about The Battle of Loos, but never had a good look at what the ground looked like. Thank you!

Thanks for this. A very good synopsis and helpful too, in locating the battles. Always worth waiting for.

Thanks Steven I love seeing this history. My Grandpa was in the 32nd Division 107th Engineers AEF. He built the 1st wooden fence around Lt Quentin Roosevelt's grave. I have a piece of brass from Quentin's plane that my Grandpa made into a crush proof for his matches.

Brilliant as usual Steven. Thanks

Thanks again for a superb piece of video Steven and excellent commentary that provides great explanations of the events of battle.

These videos are great. Thanks Steven

It’s been a while Steven, but this one was well worth waiting for! I have a personal interest in Loos; my great uncle was wounded near Hill 70 (4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards). Hopefully you’ll cover more of the largely forgotten 1915 battles? One small point: there remains some controversy as to whether that really is Jack Kipling’s grave.

Thank you, the effort and information you put into producing these videos is very much appreciated.

Another excellent video. Thank you! Steven, If you are looking for another video location and subject, you don't happen to have any video in the Frezenberg (east of Ypres) area just to the north and east showing Square Farm, Low Farm, Borry Farm, Beck House, and that area do you? I'm researching the area for a diorama in honor of my Great Grandfather, who was wounded in that area in August 1917 as part of the 3rd Ypres battles 16th Irish Division, 49th Bde, 7/8 Royal Irish Fusiliers (supporting the 15th Division, I believe). He was a stretcher bearer. Luckily he survived and was evacuated to the UK shortly thereafter. I really enjoy your videos. As a former US Army officer, the terrain and conditions are always of interest to me. Here's the map area 28.NW.2 and 28.NE.1

Another great video!

Thank you Steven. Your aerial photography and informed narrative brings to life the events of the great war.

A superb production once more, Steven, thank you so much for your efforts. Such an informative presentation. The resolution on that drone footage is so good, for a moment I thought it was an animation. Thanks again, DS

Thank you for uploading.

Thanks again, Steve. An excellent job.

Well done Mr Upton, appreciated your detail over the calm & welcoming Landscape these days. ''Let us not forget, we will remember them''.

Glad to see you are still doing videos Mr. Upton! Great video as always.

Thank you so much for the video. I always look forward to your posts. They are interesting and informative pieces of battlefield history. I have learned a lot from you concerning this war.

I love the anglicisation of the place names.

It is great to revisit Steven's films, they are extremely informative. I watch them in conjunction with google earth which gives an even greater perspective on where each location fits in to the overall geography. Thanks Steven. We will remember them.

The more videos I see, wich you produced, the more I am impressed. The way, you bring us back the history of the Great War, is truly astonishing. I am very glad, that I found your channel and will proceed thru all of your videos. Keep up your brilliant work. May be we can meet one day on one of those fields of death and glory, and reach our hands over the graves of the fallen, as a symbol, that nowadays we are living in peace, beccause they gave the last full measure of devotion and to often their lives. To show them, that their sacrifice was not in vain.

excellent stuff as usual ,been there many times, aerial shots give greater perspective to the actions

A great telling of this Battle Zone Steven. Looking forward to more of your programs.

Your “time on station” is appreciated, Stephen.

Very well produced and wonderfully narrated, thanks again for a first class film.

Mr. Upton, thank you for this video. My great uncle Thomas Doyle (Irish Guards) was KIA in this area on 09 Oct 15. He is buried in Vermelles. I was able to visit this battlefield in 2014. The aerial greatly increased my understanding of this area.

Steven thanks so much for posting these videos. It is good to see this new one it has been a while. Thanks for the great work you do bringing the history or these battles and this time line. I hope to see more of your work very soon and thanks so much.

Lovely. Thank you for what you do.

Excellent videos! Schools would benefit from these films.

Thank you for this excellent video. My great uncle David Harrison, of the North Staffs Regiment was killed on the attack on the Redoubt on 13 October 1915.

Very good indeed. This is where drones are so useful. Well done!

I was just researching the death of a Great Uncle who is buried in Loos-en-Gohelle Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. The entry in the War Diary refers to orders to attack Hohenzollern Redoubt. The War Diary states they were met with heavy machine gun and rifle fire. No artillery bombardment.The War diary refers to the distance and that the men got halfway across but by then they were practically wiped out. My Great Uncle was serving with KOYLI and was killed in this attack on 4th October 1915.

Thanks for making this

Fascinating video...my great great uncle was killed here in 9th april 1916, pvt james down no.2126 of the 7th Btn royal sussex regiment, buried in Vermelles cemetery.

Exceptional video showing historical research...well done Sir

Very good. I also enjoyed your other videos where you mention your father and grandfather. My grandfather was with Patton from Africa to Berlin. He actually drove him in his Jeep, not the sedan. He was wounded twice.

Its great to see a couple new videos from you Mr. Upton. I take it you are well. I'm sitting here about a foot from my big screen glued to every detail lol. I love your videos. I thought Jack Kipling remained missing. I didn't know he had a known grave. Looking out over these fields you could almost never tell there was such destruction and death here. It all looks so peaceful now. You're so lucky to be able to go and explore these places. last time we messaged here it was about 1917. You were about to go see it. I never did make it to a theater (of course) I bought the Blu Ray and watched with my wife and son. We liked it so much we watched it again the next day. I was impressed with how they did no mans land. I've been swamped though, I haven't been able to research where the movie takes place (the white chalk) or if its just fiction based on history. Another movie we just watched was Tolkien. I liked it although I read that they took quite a few liberties with the story (as always)

Great to see you back fit and well Steve another first class video keep them coming My Friend

Great drone footage

Outstanding video Steven! Can you do more of the tunnel warfare !

Excellent video and very informative. The arieal photos really adds an extra dimension. I would like to se more videos like this from the Somme battlefield, and perhaps also Verdun?

Thank you for this, the Hohenzollern Redoubt is one place I haven't managed to visit and its been tricky matching the 1915 maps to google earth maps from the 'armchair'. Your film solved that issue, so thanks again. After reading the first hand account by George Coppard its always stuck in the mind as a terrible place with the crater area, fosse 8 and the danger of the minnies

The twenty feet slag heap must be twenty metres surely? Another great video.

Thanks again Steve

Excellent coverage as always thanks very much. The work you do is so invaluable it should be archived by the Imperial Ar Museum. Take care and thank you once again.

As usual , a very interesting and enjoyable video , thank you Steven

Love you're work.

Always appreciate the hard work you put into video. Thank you...

A very enjoyable video Stephen, thanks for posting this. It’s a few years since I visited this area but I always made a point of visiting Quarry cemetery, it always struck me as a place of manicured beauty in modern time featureless surroundings. Regarding St Marys ADS cemetery and John Kipling’s grave, I believe that there is still some conjecture as to whether or not it is indeed his final resting place. The arguments and theories have been going on for years, I don’t suppose we will ever know for certain.

Another excellent and informative video Steven. Hope you're doing well. Cheers from France!

Fascinating and troubling. If you could, do your filming near sunrise or sunset, the long shadows show the contours, and helps the viewr orientate direction. Archaeologists do this to find things impossible to perceive from the ground.

This is excellent; thanks so much. I walked over this area yesterday in memory of my great grandfather missing in action 30th Sept 1915 in an attack on the Hohenzollern, I had difficulty (even with an old trench map in hand) working out the location of the strong point from ground level so this video was a big help.

Just superb, sending me back to pour over trench maps. Thankyou!

Thank you very much for this video!

Very much enjoyed the video, however, at @4:30 on you state the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt took place in October 1915 (from the 13th to the 19th). While an attack may have taken place during that period, this was not the first attack on the Redoubt during the Battle of Loos. On the first day of the battle (25th September) the 26th Infantry Brigade of the 9th (Scottish) Division, the senior brigade of the senior division of K1, assaulted and took the Hohenzollern Redoubt, "Little Willie" and "Dump" Trenches, Fosse 8 and the Corons de Pekin and penetrated as far as the outskirts of Haisnes. The 26th Brigade was comprised of the 8th Black Watch (the senior battalion of the Kitchener Armies), 8th Gordon Highlanders, 7th Seaforth Highlanders and 5th Cameron Highlanders - the latter commanded by Cameron of Lochiel himself. They held their positions (despite the failure of the attacks of the brigades on both right and left flanks) and were relieved by the 73rd Brigade of the 24th Division around midnight on the 25th. However, on the 27th of September the 26th Brigade were required to assault and take the Redoubt for a second time as the 73rd Brigade had been forced to retire by German counter-attacks. This they did. I know this as my great-uncle was a private in the 8th and was killed, aged 17, on the 25th - possibly by machine-gun fire from Mad Point as his company (A-company) was on the left of the battalion advance. In the three days the 8th was in action (25th to 27th September) the battalion's casualties amounted to 19 officers and 492 other ranks (from a total compliment of around 1,000). This was by no means the highest casualties suffered by a battalion during this period. One other thing I thought you might mention is the most famous grave in Quarry Graveyard - that of Captain The Honourable Fergus Bowes-Lyon. He was one of the late Queen Mother's brothers and therefore a maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth II. He was 2IC (acting Company Commander) of B-company, 8th Black Watch and was killed on September 27th.

Thanks Sir,that's good work...thx Mr, Upton.

Thanks for sharing Steven. Very interesting and some thorough research.

Steven thank you... again excellent

Just keep going Steven : I relish your channel. Were you in the forces ? You know, every time I watch your great drone fly-by's, I also think of the absolute Lasting ecological Disaster that that particular war spawned. Over a century later, the raped earth is still toxic. May I suggest a video on all the incredibly still now stockpiled masses of gas bombs and other explosive materials in France (I think of the AZF explosion in France, for example, a few years back, probabily cause by some cellulose-type explosive that used to be produced on that site during WW1) ? For some populations it actually still is a very real threat.

Thank you for the video and the clear explanation you provide! greetings from Buenos Aires.

Steve, maybe all of us that watch could club together to get you to Gallipoli. :) It is so often referred to but I have the impression that it is little understood...at least the details. And who better than you for the details?

Excellent.

Thanks for sharing, nearly missed this one.

great video, keep them coming Steve.

Will you be going again Steven to do more filming, once lock down ends? Personally i cannot wait. I have been doing lots of research to find places i haven't been yet. Some of which i have found by watching your videos. Much appreciated.

So well produced and researched....really well done. I do not see how your drone is so stable. In this video I could see the wind moving the trees below yet the drone is absolutely stable. How in the world do you manage that?

It's been too long! Very informative video, thanks for your efforts.

I really enjoy these videos, keep it up.

I recently found your channel and have been enjoying your videos very much. In my youth my wife and I used to do a lot of what we called "battlefield stomping" here in the U.S. at various national, state, etc. historic sites. I fully realize that if all the WWI and WWII battlefields in that area were made into battlefield parks, most of northern France and a significant portion of Belgium would be just one large park. Post-war folks just wanted to get back to their lives, farmers needed to raise their crops, etc. and much was necessarily erased, especially so in the last 75-100 years. In this video I am curious as to why the Hohenzollern Redoubt was left, for the most part, "as-is". Of course, the Quarry Cemetery is preserved because of what it is. However, considering just how much of the surrounding area was returned to its former use as farmland, what was this small patch left alone?

Beautiful video sir

Excellent. Been there twice but never got to grip with the layout of the land from ground level. Do you now why the land the redoubt sat on has never been farmed since? I presume too cratered or underground activity?

Very well done Steve, love watching them. Could you do an exclusively Australian area of operations? My relative was at bullecourt. Cheers and regards Dave Kelly

Thanks for another upload. Very interesting . Stay safe and take care,

This is very well put together! I love the aerial shots of the modern landscape combined with the primary sources. Did you use a drone to get those shots, or were you flying around? I'm not familiar with French aerospace laws and regulations.

Very interesting Steven

Extra question: would be interresting to know in your video locations if they are good for a battlefield walk, or if you could give recommendations // Thanks

Me and co-worker were wondering how fertile and agriculturally productive the farmland was after all this bombardment and blasting it received. How did they revive their farmland? And did the surface lose good topsoil, and get lesser subsoil lifted up into the better material?

Vey well done thank you !

Remembering the boys of 1/6 North Staffordshire Regiment who lost their lives here on 13 October 1915

My great grandfather died there in October 1915. His body was never found.

RIP Pte Arthur Winter Rowston, of the 1/5 Battallion Lincolnshire Regiment, lost in a raid in Hulluch on 8th September 1917. He has no know grave.

at 4:40 Brit trench line can be seen in the growth patterns in the crop

Is this not where several miles of underground tunnels by the RE are still situated?

I have enjoyed your entire series on WWI. I am puzzled by the spacing of the headstones on several of the cemeteries that you have shown. Do you have any idea why there is this irregular spacing? Please continue with your series!

@Steven Upton . What drone did you use for the video? It’s impressive.

Hi Steve, great vids could you please do a vid on Capt Albert Ball I am currently building a model of the Se5a

History at is best one good vid

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Where do you get all this information from? It seems like you just know everything about the First Worldwar.

Watch the video, Vermelles (62) - Quarry cemetery -

Terrible to think of the enormous cost of this collosal bit of nonsense. The politicians that started the war lost nothing, the people living in these towns and the men who died in then lost everything.

Hell on Earth

Have graves been moved from the cemetary? Looks a little weird.. And those "visible" craters in the fields.. I wonder why they can be seen as whitish? Drained of water differently due to refilled with perhaps different soil? :/ Interesting as always whatever the case is here.