From across the pond, i make jokes of you i make fun and take the piss, just means i love you guys so much tho, we are family ❤

They should bring back the connought rangers.

Read the book it's excellent 👌

Polish troops trained in Scotland for their part in the D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944. Commanded by Maczek, the Polish 1st Armoured Division trapped and destroyed 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions at the Battle of Falaise (12-21 August 1944), and would later go on to spearhead the Allied drive across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.

My US Navy Frogman grandfather trained with the British Commandos in the Bahamas (including knife-fighting) and carried a Fairbairn-Sykes knife in combat. Thankfully never had to kill anyone with it though!

My late birth Maternal Grandmothe, Bridget Elliott Maiden's name wss Coll and her Father otginally came from Bruree

However, my distant 5th cousin Eamon DeValera on his Mother's side Kate Coll) was involved in the Easter Rising of 1916, but was not shot like Padrsig Pearce and his other Rising biddies. Dev was born in New York, but moved to 7 milds outside Bruree, Co. Limerick as we all know

My adoptive family were not in World War 1and I don't know whether my birth femily were involved in World War 1

My husband'av paternal Grandfath from Listowel, Co. Kerry was in British Palestine circa 1917

My husband's materndl grand-uncle fron Clonmel, Co. Tipperary went missing in action during World War 1 at the age of 19 very shortly after he joined the War. His name was Charlie Murphy.

My uncle served with BRIXMIS in the 80’s. I was at Detmold and later Hildesheim during this same period. He used to tell me some harrowing stories about encounters with the Stasi while he was there.

The gut is not even an amateur historian.

I know generally sardarjis are fun and cordial people, love their jokes too but here they have totally shot their foot !

This is actually worse than even mercenaries, who never adorned uniforms of their own oppressors. The colonial brits used the then prevalent economic grounds post the anglo-sikh wars to recruit large Sikh soldiers to assimilate into the British Army. Whilst other parts of India they encountered stiff resistance which eventually took them to even ban these southern martial traditions like kalaripayattu, Kathi Sami, Silambakam are predated in early vedic inscription and does signify the Indic martial heritage, " OF COURSE NOT COL. BRITSH APPROVED". As these martial arts were a clear threat to the Brits. They nor only inflicted these marital forms to resist and but never got recruited by the colonial British army. Let's not forget the early 13th to 15th century of islamic occupation of large parts of north India, it was the Vijayayanagar Kingdom in the south that was fiercefully independent and had much genius military system with a 10 lakh army on foot !

So nice to see instead of actors like Flynn in Hollywoods movie where the amount of horses sacrificed in the name of excitement I'm glad to say won't happen again. As you watch the old black and white movie you actually can see which horse could ever rise again. In fact fewer horses died in the real charge of the light bregade!

Women made such a huge contribution to the war effort, every war effort for yhat mayter, that is barely recognized by government or history.

Conscription is horrible. Good men (and women) recruited in the military against their will or otherwise face imprisoned if they refuse. Imperial Japan was the worst case.

Ya know not to F with him anyway 😂😂

Makes sense why africans are sore at the irish lately..

1:24 What is "round up the spout" and why is it against the Geneva Convention? Sorry. English isn't my first langage.

Hi am from Uganda am selling a defence medal 0:55

2:53 what is the name of the book he is refering?

Newfoundland Regiment Gallipoli Peninsula

India army used Lee enfield rifle til

Never mess with an old guy ...your entering a world of pain

Here are three to blow your mind: 1. Dekko (from Hindi word dekho): implying a quick look 2. Mulagatawnny (from Tamil word muluga tanni- tamarind water used as sambhar) - now used as a stand in for a soupy/chowder 3. Doolali - (from the town name Deolali, which had a mental asylum) - now used as a word for going bonkers

Chai is not an Indian word though. Chai and Tea are both two different words originating in different parts of China and rest of the world knows it by variations of just these two words, so yeah, there are not any other words for Tea or Chai in any language other than these two words(or some variations). But, I was surprised to know the origin of Punch.

thank you for the wonderful lecture.🐎

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So they came from a country that was invaded and subjugated, joined their oppressors, and helped to invade and subjugate other poor people 🤔 wtf

Thank you so much I have WW2 three stars medals Africa , Italy , the 1939 -1945 with this two silver Defence silver medal .

Unsaid: "We don't normally need them, but when we do need them, them we REALLY need them and we bloody well need them FAST"". Thank you, Sir.

One of the SAS officers on this job was due to have lunch at my house on the day that the hostage was killed. He quickly left us and gave a telephone number so we could check up on him later. The phone was never answered. The next day we found out why - Prime Minister Thatcher was treating the soldiers to a "wee dram" or two at No. 10 as a thank you.

You cannot appreciate how much Wolfgang meant to us until you spend sometime in the field on the same rations menu for weeks. A Non-working BV never prevented a vehicle deploying, and Herfie was used as a currency and rewards for good deeds. In Berlin the officers may have gone to the opera but I assure you the troops didn’t 😂

Yous didn't have any proper anything , sas why are they so stupid?

I am reading the Book now Brothers in Arms, good book. I am USA army retired M1A1 Tanker

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He looks like a normal bloke don't he. Thats bc he's Brit SF.

Presenter guy is a bit condescending. “Right?” “Do you remember?” Err, he was there and it’s his book, bro.

Regimental badge from the Army, the Royal Marines like to take credit for the Commandos.

MOD as usual have a lot to answer for !!!

Poor intelligence from the off led to failure. Who the hell was responsible for that . Shocking.

God bless the Irishmen who fought for the Republic and those who fought for King and Country as well

We share so much in our long, difficult blood soaked history that we can never be fully separated. It’s complex and contradictory and controversial but throughout the centuries we have fought both with each other and against each other. ‘If’ is such a small and enormous word.. if Britains politicians had been more humane, more evolved, more intelligent we might still be a part of the United kingdom but now, in 2024 we are happy to have managed to eject British rule in Ireland but we will always be neighbors… we can’t pick our neighbors but we can learn how to live with them.

Two weeks life expectancy was optimistic. As soon as the Germans realised that there were guerillas in underground bunkers, they'd have deployed dog units to find them. You can hide from men, not from scent hounds.

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I really want to hear the story behind the grenade.

Vandeleur a general seldom mentioned but performed extremely well. Had a long impressive military career and as Wellington came from Ireland. What is often overlooked about this battle is how long the daylight lasts at this time of year and how hot the sun can be.

Gurkhas are not a caste, gurkha is a geographic identity, all gurkhas are themselves divided into two castes the khas chettri(kshatriya) and the khas brahmins.

This video was although good but highly sikh oriented