1914 - 2014 'Remember Tommy Atkins'



Unmissable story of the valiant WW1 & 2 soldiers in 7 minutes... Please share.

WARNING: There are graphic images of war dead in the latter part of this video. Viewer discretion is advised.


A true Horror story...


One hundred years ago, on August 4th 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany and World War One, (or The War to end all Wars, as it came to be known) began. The war raged for four desperate years and is considered to be the deadliest and bloodiest global conflict in history. 

'Remember Tommy Atkins' is a tribute to those brave souls, some as young as 14, who fought and died in this terrible conflict.



LYRICS:

(Spoken)
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

(Sung)
In the Quartermasters Stores, they keep the War to end all Wars
In an ammunition box on a bench.
Inside there’s memories galore of the men what fought that War
From a stinking rat infested muddy trench.

1914 was the year when wives and mothers shed a tear
as they watched their sons and husbands march away.
They just did not know the cost of the lives that would be lost
on Flanders Fields where the Fallen still rest today.

(Captain)
When you hear my whistle blow, o’er the top we all must go
and together we will face the enemy.

I’m your Captain you can place your trust in me.

When you hear my whistle blow, o’er the top we all must go
into no-man’s land and on to victory.

(Soldier - Spoken)
When whistle blew, we went over top.
Keep going said Captain, don’t nobody stop.
The noise it were terrible and many men fell.
We were no longer int War, we were in bloody hell.

(Sung)
Ten million soldiers died, ten million families cried
and Nations joined in sorrow and in pain.
And the Tommy’s what survived, they thanked God they was alive
and said the World must never fight like this again.

It was the War to end all Wars that didn’t end the Wars at all
in ’39 Tommy Atkins once more joined the fray.
Then came Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan
‘cos the bloody wars just will not go away.

They were young, they were bold, destined never to grow old
as they marched to War and in to History.

(Spoken)
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.