WW1 history on social media today is more and more AI slop. So thought I would give a shout out to my channel and why follow. Every video is built from: • battlefield visits • Archive research • Family letters & diaries • Real locations, not AI youtube.com/@ri315e?si=rV9…

Last weekend I recreated several original wartime photographs around Verdun to showcase the history, which produced some interesting Now and Then pictures The ghosts of the past still remain. youtu.be/pP8NJQIQfdQ?... #Verdun #WW1

12.5.16 In the reserve trenches and its not great, as we don't have any shelters & the shells come nonstop. For the moment, everything is fine, we have no injuries, we are holed up in our holes, but as we hear the shells whistling over we ask ourselves if the next one is for us?

Alexis would be killed the next day. Over 500 others died with him... including the man pictured Find out more in the video, where I used letters, photographs and regimental records to reconstruct what happened to the 315e RI. Watch here: 👉 youtu.be/YHMg4g8VsSc?...

Alexis Chambron, night before: "The artillery has been increasing, it is now so loud, it’s enough to make you deaf. I hope this time the gaps in the wire have been made and that the sacrifices made will be worth it" "In any case, if something bad happens to me.... prepare yourself for the worst"

What was it like for a regiment on the 'deadliest day' in French military history? Not Verdun. Not 22nd August 14. But 25th September 1915, where over 21,000+ French died in a few hours. One regiment — the 315e RI — suffered the 4th highest losses. This is their story 🧵 ↓

110 years ago, my great-grandfather sent this home. “It’s cold. And when we are in the trenches, outside at night, it will be even worse. We leave for 8 days. On our right, at Verdun, it has been non-stop. I’m sending you a photo 👇 it will be a memory for me after the war. #WW1 #OnThisDay

110 years ago today (25th Feb 1916), Fort Douaumont fell. It would later become one of the most heavily bombarded places on the battlefield, with an estimated 120,000 shells. Want to learn more about the Battle of Verdun? Here’s a short video: youtu.be/GoE6datjY4Q

7:15am German bombardment begins. The Battle of Verdun starts. ~300 days of fighting. ~70% of the French Army rotated through 16,142 French soldiers lie at Douaumont 130,000 French and German in the Ossuary “One of the saddest places I know.” Richard Holmes ✍️ #Verdun110

#OTD 110 years ago, my great-grandfather wrote ✍️ "I told you about a photo I think, but it was not successful, so we started again yesterday, one with all the non-commissioned officers, but I don't know the result yet, let's hope its good" This is that photo, 7.2.1916 📸

4.2.16 I have just received your last letter, what a good moment for me when I read these lines which remind me of you Jeanne. The weather is bad today, rain is falling, last night I suffered a lot from toothache, but I don't during the day, just at night ...so its hard to sleep

A man forgotten by History. Son visage a traversé le temps. Son histoire s’est effacée avec le temps. His story vanished. Not anymore, find out more about him below. Below photo you will find in @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social The Facemaker book. Here is this mans story: youtu.be/mdT82Qtx9EY?...

This helmet belonged to my great-grandfather. It’s a French Adrian helmet and it changed survival on the Western Front for the French other and many others that adopted it I’m publishing my first full story tonight on Substack substack.com/@315eri

25th September 1915 likely the deadliest day in French military history. A film I made that follows one regiment: 315e RI This is their story youtu.be/aeqb1SOdIJ4?...

Little taste for what coming later today 📍Chateau de Tilloloy 📸Soldier in 1916 v today Full video on my YouTube this evening

My Gt Grandfather Christmas night in the trenches in 1915 … “Today at 01h00 I was entering my dug out, when I was told that the LTN wanted to see me. I had hardly done 10 paces when I was knocked over by a 105’ that destroyed my dug out. It was a lucky escape & my lucky day”

22.12.15 #OTD "It is 10pm, what we have been going through for 8 days is unbelievable, I am discouraged. All my comrades are sick. Work is hard, the men only obey by force, everyone has had enough. Excuse me if I'm writing badly, but I'm in a hole with no space to move ..."

Brand New: Now & Then Video 📍Somme • Champagne • Verdun 🕰️ Locations Where Time Stood Still 📽️Duration: 2 minutes ▶️https://youtu.be/ibDJSUu8fB0?si=tvtn3PDFAirrHrwH

Like Then & Now videos? Here are my top 3 videos below, enjoy! French Sectors on the Western Front ▶️youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc Verdun Forts & surrounding area ▶️youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU Where soldiers fell: Then and Now ▶️youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10 New one come this Friday 👇

Just passed 145,000 views on my YouTube channel! 🤯 Here are some of the most-watched videos👇 Locations to Visit on the Western Front ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/-fu8KM2… French Sectors: Then & Now ▶�� youtu.be/8v5E_a8Upfc?si�si… Verdun: Then & Now ▶️ youtu.be/0ZpciGd6AXU?si…

18 November 1916 #otd It would be remiss of me to not remember what David O'Mara would remind people, that the end of the Somme for the French Army was not today but on 17th December The fighting costing 2,600+ French lives By the end almost 50/50 in number of divisions rotated through Somme 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧

1.3+ million soldiers died for France during WWI Today the 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour We remember all soldiers of all nations “A man with no memory is a man without life, a nation without memory is a nation without a future” ✍️Ferdinand Foch

🕵️‍♂️ How to date a photo with no info? ▶️ 103e Régiment 💐 Look at the flowers In France, 1st May = Muguet, a good-luck tradition often sent home in letters or held in photos. Here, it’s not muguet but looks like white lilac, maybe they couldn’t find muguet? 📅 So best educated guess? Around 1st May.

During War people had no humour... wrong Just a standard group photo of WW1 soldiers? Something in this picture is very curious... No caption on the photo, just my educated guesses: ▶️103e Régiment d’Infanterie 📅Likely Winter 1915/16 📍Ville-Sur-Tourbe to Melzicourt area

🎥 Then & Now The Lost Generation | Where they fell Verdun, Champagne, the Chemin des Dames, Somme, where over a 1.3m young and old French soldiers fell. Then & now, where they fell, their faces and their memory 🥀 Glimpse below, for the full film 👇 youtu.be/mvFPmB_5K10?si…

The Great War… of Great Moustaches Here are some of my top 10 Greatest Moustaches of World War I 🥸from Hindenburg’s to papa Joffre’s walrus. What your favourite? 🎥 Watch the full 👇 youtube.com/shorts/zZM1-...

⏰ 9:15am, 25 Sept 1915 The worst single day of Allied losses on the Western Front and one you’ve likely never heard of. In just 12+ hours: 🇫🇷 23,615 French dead 🇬🇧 8,581 British dead A day almost erased from memory. Today remember Champagne, Artois & Loos #forgottenbattles

#OTD Sgt Laurent Marie Bernier, 38, was hit at 16:00 by a shell, his leg torn off and head wounded. Herve Lambert commented: “We’d not moved him 10m when a 150 fell where he’d been.” For all Herve efforts, Laurent died the next day; buried at La Nécropole Fontaine Routhon

Bored this afternoon? I have been busy ... 📽️15 minute video recreates what two soldiers went through at Verdun. Told through the soldiers hand written letters from the front, as they endure the mud, the bombardments, and the losses... ▶️ youtu.be/POSeY_7aucQ?...

26.7.16 Massiges Nothing new, we still don't have any rest, because it's just always chores, still great weather, what great weather, but we shouldn't be locked up and kept like this. We are going to stay 8 days here, before doing 8 days in the 1st line, as I thought… but at least its quiet