I'm alive because my grandfather, Sgt Alexander M Hudson RNR 961, was in sickbay and did not go on the July 1st charge. I would possibly not exist, if he had. He didn't say a lot about the war, preferring to keep it for himself. But he did say that he lost a lot of friends that morning. After Galipoli, he went on to serve in France, notably as a stretcher-bearer before returning to Newfoundland im 1919. Tragically, his mother had a heart attack and died the day after Pop arrived home.

So touching.... I'm so proud to be a Newfoundlander. Thank you to all who fought for us🇨🇦

The fact that the Newfoundlanders went into the first AND the second world war alone as a country in and of themselves is just a tribute to their courage, self-sacrifice, and devotion to what they believed in just makes me regard Newfoundland as the bravest province of Canada. As a boy born in Saskatchewan, I'm glad they joined our country as the 12th province of Canada. Without the devastation of the first and second world war it makes me wonder how they would have fared as a proud nation of their own. From British Columbia, I wish only the best to our eastern neighbour.

One of the best documentaries of battles of foreign wars that I have seen. This film is so compelling that I couldn’t stop watching it. I love knowing the history of your & my ancestors and it continues to amaze me - the bravery, the love of country and how far men and women will go and fight , at home and abroad, to keep our families and future generations safe. Well done, boy’s.

We will remember you!!!! Thanks boys

Nothing but gratitude towards these boys and all the others who came over here and many of them never left...

My goodness you fellows have put together a video which is very effective and which I will remember forever. Thank You, and may these heroic young soldiers rest in peace forevermore.

Thanks Boys! Both then and now.

"Some call those of us who come back, hero's. I say, We are not the hero's. The hero's are the boys who gave their lives for us. The hero's are the ones who have their head stones in foreign lands. Those are my hero's." - Dedicated to The Unknown Soldier by an unknown soldier.

Very well done film of new foundlanders. The best i have seen.

Man's grandfather was in WW1 and was given a queen and king' ss discharge my father was in WW2 as well as my uncle. My dad was only 18 years old when he joined the WW2.

I am extremely proud to say my grandfather, Lance Corporal Frank Dawe, was a veteran of the Great War. I am here today, as are my children, because he , fortunately, was wounded two weeks before Beaumont Hamel and was sent back to Wandsworth Hospital to recover.

I went to Beaumont Hamel last week. A depressing experience. The trenches and graveyards everywhere. These young guys were slaughtered. Human life, well the human life of working class people, didn't matter a damn to the toffs who ordered them over the top to a certain death. Churchill claimed to have fought in the trenches ! Yeah ! The loud mouth spent his time wining and dining in luxury in a chateau miles from the front line. He wrote wonderful reports back to British newspapers about himself and the risks he was taking for his king and country. Twenty years later, it happened all over again and today the same countries are still at war. War is a racket. Every shell that was fired at Beaumont Hamel meant money in the bank for a war profiteer.

Thank you

lost 4 ancestors July 1, 1916. RIP Ayre sons :(

I loved watching this Documentary..so informative and yet so very sad 😔 so many young lives lost 💔

Well said Mr. Doyle. It does make you angry.

A huge part of a whole generation of our finest young sons was sent to an almost certain death largely due to a very bungled and unwinnable battle plan.The world should know the selfless and and heroic valor these incredible boys showed that horrendous day.I have felt so passionate about their sacrifice on that day and so thankful that they had the sense of moral duty to save the free world from a life of oppression ,that years ago I had a Celtic Cross surrounded by the words "July 1,1916-Lest We Forget" tattooed to my left forearm.Since I had these indelible words put on my arm ,many people have asked me the significance of them and I waste no time in giving them a history lesson about the supreme sacrifices these heroes made so that we can live today free from the tyrannical rule of despots that so many other peoples have had to endure.I have made it very clear that they should get down on their knees and thank God every day that our country (after all we were our own country back then) had young men who felt that it was imperative to take up arms against what was a very real and evil threat to the freedom and well being of every man,woman and child on this planet.God Bless each and every one of them.Thanks for producing such a revealing and factual account of the darkest day in our history,you have done them and our province an enormous service.

Newfoundlanders have a really strange accent, they sound like there from Southern Ireland but apparently there not as I spoke to one on You Tube they call it the Rock!? 🤔 🇨🇦

That blonde young lady at 23:09 reminds me of actor Scarlett Johnansson

Please, write english subtitles!!!!!