I can't believe their accents. Canadians nowadays sound JUST like Americans except when saying a few words, whereas these men still sound very British.

It does for me down like all the nonsense like this stuff

Couldn't agree more Frank.

@@scottkrafft6830 Theres a large black community in Newfoundland with Irish accents. Irish accents are very common because of isolation. Same would be true of isolated English communities. Many British soldiers who served with Canadian regiments returned with their regiment. Including a British General who was being hunted by the I R A who fled after a Field Marshall was shot in London. He went to the Newfoundland Fusilliers to be close to his regiment, and carried 2 pistols and a knuckle duster everywhere he went The I R A found him. They were persuaded not to go through with the assassination because theyd never escape ,convinced by the catholic priest who they went to for confession that morning. Many veterans were paid as Auxiliary police and "Black and Tans" paid £1 a day to suppress the population. 1919 - 1921 They created outrage by burning down 24 villages in 4 weeks , summary executions and torture. Many found that they could not return to Britain because of infamy and a large irish population there.

@@scottkrafft6830 60% of the population is 1st English then irish, then scottish. (102,000 today ) and the population in 1920 was only 3,000.......So, 2000 odd would have been English English 45,435 24.89% Scottish 31,870 17.46% Irish 30,795 18.72% (today) 1841 550 - 1871 1,684 +206.2% 1901 1,643 −2.4% 1911 2,372 +44.4% 1921 3,298 +39.0%......................that implies that they were first or 2nd generation english, irish and scots. The children of those who moved there in 1871 would have been the right age for WW1. The only accent theyd learn would be from other english, scots or irish.

True but veterans of the battle of Hastings, American revolution and civil war, Mexican revolution etc are gone too. Appreciate who we have now.

cruz loera yeah but it’s extra sad because it is filmed and you know everyone in that video died.

nietjonah facts

Be a miracle if they weren't home by now

LloydDutch Smiley more people like should exist

i agree, cause they're all gone now..0

World War II veterans will soon be all gone too. They are mostly already gone.

@@o-o6355 No shit Sherlock

Absolutely the interviews and footage has to be copied many times in different formats and preserved in Many places to ensure survival forevermore.

They'd have to be over 120 now so it's not crazy really

It seems crazy but then you go deeper and realize the trillion on trillions on TRILLIONS of people who are dead right now and it's not all that shocking

is more sad to think ww2 vets will be gone too

@@-t96 It is currently estimated that around 100 billion people have ever lived, not trillions lol

Michael style trillions and trillions of people have never existed I think you meant billions

That is awesome!

....damn

That’s incredible

Why are they heroes? They are murderers

@@stevens5541 That all ya got? Murderers huh? Well okay then PFFFT. Enjoy the safety and quality of life you have protected by Murderers, if they weren't things would be very different for you big mouth. Just how would you get an invading army out of your home? Big hug? Thinking as you do I'd say your the "live on my knees" kinda guy rather than die on your feet fighting for those you love (if your capable of that emotion)

Steven S You dumb ass! All heroes. We enjoy this life, from there giving, some gave all. What have you given? Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.

@@warrenchambers4819 The Great War caused the rise of fascism, world war 2, a great many famines and pestilences of disease spread perhaps via the mice that lived on fresh rotting corpses akin with to the Dark Ages of Europe, economic collapse. I don't have any family on my father's side because of it except my dad. Yeah, real great ''safety'' it brought, didn't it? My father's family died for nothing but the ignorance, violence and imbecility of humanity. It could have all been avoided and that poor boy who was intervewed as a man in this video could have avoided seeing the guts of another man splattered all over his field of vision while he was still an impresionnable young lad. I'm not at all proud they had to murder Germans, it created such an emnity and horror to Germany through paranoia and fear that it gave the compost on the weeds of Hitler's rise there, and for good reason Germany was scared of the world - look how cruelly it got treated. They didn't deserve the nasty barbarism our civilization decayed into in those years.

Wasn't it 2011?

@@nibsin no it was 2012. Joined at a young age, I believe the vet was an ambulance driver.

@@johnnyb7628 do you know how old he was when he died?

I just came across this fantastic time capsule. Thank god for film and to the uploader but most of all thank god for the internet and youtube that let us have access to such amazing historical treasure.

I was literally thinking the same thing it’s almost like I could feel his pain 😞

Yeah, he was talking about rats on the parapet, and then something hit him...a bad memory.

...their gift of the easy life which you're all chucking away now to other invaders. I'm Nigerian and cannot believe how far down the West has sunk in the name of bleeding heart migration. FYI I'm still in my country Nigeria and intend to stay there for the rest of my natural life.

When did he pass away if you don’t mind me asking

@@LusCrowley it had to be after 1953 but before 1960. I was in High school when i first met him

Wow how old are you now sir

@@noc805 I left Germany about two months before Elvis Presley got there and by the way we both used the same transport ship to get to Germany. the USS General Randal. I will let you figure out how old I am but I am older than what the other commenter thinks I am.

@@eogg25 I think you are in your late 70s now sir, i would say 78 or 79, must be nice having those memories

I not just realized that we don’t have much longer with ww2 vets when my grandpa died in 2019(he was a chemical engineer in his late twenties when had started on project Manhattan) and I started to really think about the fact we don’t have much time left with those wonderful people.

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I don't understand, why join the military if only the "greedy" want war

hey canada, maybe learn orthography, thank you.

@@aaaab384darn aren't you smart , I had to lookup what orthography even meant

@jacobkudrowich4507 wtf. Never been to elementary school? Or just canadian?

​@@aaaab384show some respect

@@heccsclips3319 To the dumbass who has never heard about orthography and thinks that "lookup" is a verb? Yes, lots of respect, canada.

Deathfromabove sadly there a no world war 1 veterans left. Unless you meant veterans in general

January 18th 1997 here, i would've been around the exact age to go join the war if born 100years earlier

im a kid and the ww2 veterans and the soldiers fighting overseas in afghanistan and iraq are also my heroes

@@jjcapo3426 God bless ya son .... these kids were kids ..... 20yr olds flying bombers.. in my country . New Zealand ... ww1 ww2 effected everyhouse ..... every family .. being such a small population , had family fighting .... when i grew up it was still raw in peoples minds .... it was 15yrs ago ... now im old i realise that 15yrs ago was yesterday ... now i know why they didnt talk .. they all drank in their sheds all wkend and at night ... always a touch of sadness in them .... if theyspoke about the war .. u listened ,i could see the tears behind their eyes .... so glad that they have been interviewed .. should be shown in schools ..... so war is personalised .... then it hits home .. like it did to us older people ... my mum is in her 90s .. i still see the tears talking about uncles, cousins etc that were never seen again ...

Mike S I'm quoting this off of someone else but they said "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and wise to go kill eachother"

@@jjcapo3426 so true ..

David Christen just remember that you have justin trudeau

I'm sure you're proud! You did an excellent job being born in exactly the right place! Great thing you've done there buddy!

Winning Grinn it’s an outstanding country

@@douglaslyckholm1857Trudeau>Biden>Trump

Vaccinium augustifolium Trump isn’t even the president anymore. I see he lives rent free in your low IQ head.

Damn big man eater was he not talking about a Rat?

@@discoveryman59 1:55 he says “y’know what that was? A big man eater, a rat” I think they called them man eaters because rats would devour the organs of corpses in No mans land.

Same thing is still going on today mate .

pbegley99 I don't know but I hate it

Mollycoddled wimps--that's what we've become.

We have become incredibly weak

We haven't become weak, THEY have, maybe you have, but I haven't.

Nathan Chancellor Good but quite a few people have issues because they are not hardened

You couldn't talk about Vietnam when we came home, it makes people feel guilty. My father threw me out of the house when I came home because I told him the war was wrong. No one in my family knows any thing about my war experiences and like these men we all carry the anguish of lost friends forever, veterans carry the darkness while society runs away. Both my grandfathers fought in France.

These men were born and raised in the UK, and immigrated to Canada and became Canadian citizens post WW1. They retained their accents even after living 40 - 50 years in Canada.

So they are British veterans not Canadian one's?

@@5888max I suspect so given the strength of the accents after living in Canada for so many years; it seems logical they served with the British Expeditionary forces as young men, and emigrated to Canada post WW1.

British, Canadian, doesn't matter. We are forever grateful for their sacrifice. PS. I'm from the far north of Scotland and one a few Shands. I wonder if your chap there was related....

Britain and Canada were one in the same back then, not so much nowadays

Unfortunately the last WW1 veteran to pass away was in 2012.

@@netneutrality5461 yes I know RIP to all who served

@@netneutrality5461 young people go suffer in ww1 and ww2 and old people plan it out

Very few of World War II too, how many are left?

@@forgttenjungle1248 probably in their hundred of thousands. Pretty sad there won't be any left in the next 15-20 years. I've been blessed to meet 6 WW2 Veterans. I live in New York and every year in Washington DC on the first of September, they have a WW2 Remembrance day where lots of WW2 veterans come. I still remember it was very hot and I was impressed on how the old men were able to stand in that heat 😅

Billy talent

@@520angling5 yes sir.. saw them live twice

How sad but totally understandable. It was an absolutely brutal war.

magic

How old are you? old gentleman

@@alfredchung1367 68! Tomorrow 😳to you Gung Hay Fat Choy 💥😬

Thank you for the upload, very emotional and educational, these should be televised more so that the younger generations can have the choice to educate themselves and appreciate what these great men did for us.

@@Taylor-sv7tm indeed.

Oh no, as a Nigerian I can assure you you've all forgotten. You've done far worse even, you've betrayed those men and women who paid a costly price with their lives to give you the liberties and the good life you had since those wars ended.

Alot were from Canada who had 1,000,000+ soldiers going over to fight.. including a few of my great great Canadian uncles

I feel like if you grew up somewhere, it's quite hard to change accent after that unless you make a conscious effort to

I look at what the West has become, politically correct,soft ,white shaming ,cow towing to China ,these great proud gentlemen would be mortified.

RoBoVader no. The last ww1 vet died a few years ago

he may have. The voices and stories used were probably taken from old interviews such as this.

Lol

I saw a headstone of a fifteen year old in Ypres. Scary....

@@aadil-alihamir5986 my great grandfather died in 2019. He was 99 y/o his brother died in an Alaska campaigns in ww2, he himself was a chemical engineer on project Manhattan.

My grandfather was born in 1934