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Title: 11th November
Post by: Dorliz on Tuesday 10 November 09 01:29 GMT (UK)
       "the price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance"
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: majm on Tuesday 10 November 09 03:38 GMT (UK)
In Flanders Fields  by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
        That mark our place; and in the sky
            The larks, still bravely singing, fly
                Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
            Loved and were loved, and now we lie
                In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    To you from failing hands we throw
        The torch; be yours to hold it high.
            If ye break faith with us who die
               We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
                   In Flanders fields.

Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Tephra on Tuesday 10 November 09 05:09 GMT (UK)



They'll always be with us.


Barbara
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: LoneyBones on Tuesday 10 November 09 09:27 GMT (UK)
John George WALTON. 1 September 1918. Mont St Quentin, Somme.
Three of his brothers also served.
Lest we forget.


Leonie.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: LizzieW on Tuesday 10 November 09 10:56 GMT (UK)
George Reuben Benson 24 November 1917, Cambrai, France
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Redroger on Tuesday 10 November 09 18:06 GMT (UK)
In memoriam Jack Cornwell VC 8 Jan 1900 to 2 June 1916 Battle of Jutland, my mother's cousin.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Dorliz on Tuesday 10 November 09 18:37 GMT (UK)
In memory of    Oliver Aubry Hellyer 27 July 19116  - Pozieres Age 22
                         Ernest Athol Smith 28 Jan 1950 {gas}
                         Edwin Harris DCM  11 Aug 1965   WWII
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Redroger on Tuesday 10 November 09 19:46 GMT (UK)
My father died in 1971 of leukaemia. He was gassed in 1916. Reading an article at the time of the first Gulf War in 1991 I discovered that leukaemia many years later was a known effect of chlorine gas poisoning.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 10 November 09 19:50 GMT (UK)
Henry James Baldwin, 16 June 1915, Ypres, France

Percy Baldwin, 3 March 1918, Somme, France

Your names will be remembered by a new generation.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: greenpaula on Tuesday 10 November 09 20:36 GMT (UK)
Lest we Forget -

in memory of 4 great-uncles from the Eckersley and Hoey families -

Thomas Quinn 8th battalion The Lancashire Lads KIA 26/4/1916 buried Ecoivre Military Cemetery
Thomas' little brother Hubert Quinn 2nd battalion Border Regiment KIA aged 19 10/5/1917 remembered on the Arras Memorial
Vincent McLuskey KIA 1/12/1917 aged 32 buried Picardy
Richard Brown 8/7/1897 KIA 3/11/1917 Egypt buried in Gaza
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Lydart on Tuesday 10 November 09 20:42 GMT (UK)
I never knew of him until I found him via RootsChat ...



Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: nortybaby on Tuesday 10 November 09 20:54 GMT (UK)
Roland Patrick NORTON

B: 14 March 1883 - Temora
D: 10 May 1915 - Gallipoli

We will remember.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Viktoria on Tuesday 10 November 09 21:49 GMT (UK)
Yes Redroger, my dad was gassed and had a dreadful cough all his life. Eventually he was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx.Was operated on successfully but some years lated developed lung cancer. He gave his WW1 history to the medical staff but I don`t think they gave much attention to what may have been the root cause as he also smoked . But the racking choking cough never left him, he died 57 years after being gassed . He was taken prisoner and so did not get any proper medical attention after the gas attack. He must have been quite mildly affected compared to many, but the long term effects were there. The fact that he already had a dreadful cough masked the early symptoms of lung cancer and it was quite advanced by the time it was diagnosed and  then it was too late.
Two minutes silence in our house tomorrow at eleven o`clock,when I`ll hear  in my mind the soft winds that blow over all the cemeteries in Belgium and France, and throughout the world  and think of individual soldiers and remember them all, and those who fight for us now and say,Thankyou. Viktoria.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Berni on Tuesday 10 November 09 21:58 GMT (UK)
In memory

William Augustus Donovan
B 02 Jan 1879
killed in action  06 Dec 1917   USS Jacob Jones
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: ozlady on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:07 GMT (UK)
Sgt. Morgan Rees Price 18513 !st Battalion SWB.
KIA 10/11/1917. Age 24.
Passchendaele
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: csh on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:13 GMT (UK)
Remembered with honour.

Private Emanuel Goss, 1st Btn, Somerset Light Infantry - 01 July 1916
Sgt Frederick Robert Goss, 13th Btn, Welsh Regiment - 22 November 1916
Private Sidney John Goss, 4th Btn, Devonshire Regiment - 30 December 1917
Private Arthur Goss, 18th Btn, Welsh Regiment - 13th April 1918
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: crystal lady on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:18 GMT (UK)

Remembering my great uncle
Pte. Thomas Richardson, Staffs Yeomany
Died 1918 aged 22 years

We will remember them.

Crystal
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Dolly_007 on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:22 GMT (UK)
In Memory

Geoffrey Marples Edwardes

B  24/08/1897   Isle of Man
D  3/09/1917     Buried in the Naval Trench at Gavrelle France .
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: liverbird09 on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:43 GMT (UK)
Remembered with honour
Charles Thomas Hibbert,  The King's Liverpool Regiment, died 14th July 1916, France.

Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: copperbeech5 on Tuesday 10 November 09 22:46 GMT (UK)

In Memory of two Great Uncles,

W H Hutchinson B 1893, Died  10.10.1918 Drowned at sea, and buried on the Isle of Man.

W W Parkin B 1898, Died 1.7.1916 Somme.  His name in on the Thiepval Memorial.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: deeiluka on Tuesday 10 November 09 23:22 GMT (UK)
We will remember them all......

And particularly I'll remember my Australian cousins......

George SELWAY aged 20
Private 6883 48th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died of wounds 25 June 1918
Villers-Bretonneux, France

Frederick Berger KAPPLER aged 25
Private 567 21st Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died 17th November 1916 Villers-Bretonneux, France

and my English cousins, (brothers).....
Horace NUNLEY aged 27
Private 203112 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 14th July 1917 at Ypres, Belgium.

Lesley Beman NUNLEY aged 19
Private 200689 1st/4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 19th April 1917 Gaza, Israel.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: macbeth on Tuesday 10 November 09 23:39 GMT (UK)
Great Uncle :
Private ALFRED GEORGE McMILES

51st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
who died age 33 on 11 July 1916
Buried     ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION


His cousin
Lance Corporal JOSEPH CAMPBELL McMILES

18th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
who died age 30 on 29 November 1916
Buried     ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Niksmum on Wednesday 11 November 09 02:27 GMT (UK)
     Frederick Langsworthy
         killed in action
          14/11/1914 
       Middlesex Regiment   
buried ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE

Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: pn on Wednesday 11 November 09 05:51 GMT (UK)

Arthur Hall
Royal Lancaster Regiment 2nd/5th Bn
26 October 1917

John Tinsley
South Lancashire Regiment 2nd Bn
15 June 1917

Samuel Royle
Lancashire Fusiliers
20 Sept 1917
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 11 November 09 06:50 GMT (UK)
Lest We Forget

Honouring:

Charles George Christopher
Glouchester Regiment
18 September 1916


Also remembering:

Beatrice Ivy Shimell nee Wilkinson
Edward Richard Shimell
Clifford Shimell aged 4

Tragically killed during the blitz of London, 22 September 1940

Plus all those family members that served and survived.

Bless you all.

Caz


Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Lydart on Wednesday 11 November 09 10:20 GMT (UK)
... and can we also remember those who served and returned, with hidden injuries like shell-shock which blighted their lives until they died many years later ?


My Uncle Jack, Royal Artillery ...
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: LancsLass on Wednesday 11 November 09 10:20 GMT (UK)
                           Remembered with Honour


              Private 1608 Harold  Eastwood

                          1/10th  Manchester Regiment


          "One of the Oldham territorials.." The Cotton Town Comrades.
                                                             
                          Died 5th June 1915  Gallipoli  aged 19 yrs.

Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Iria on Wednesday 11 November 09 10:38 GMT (UK)
Remembering

Pte Henry Norris 6th Bn South Lancashire Regt
Died Of Wounds 24/8/1915 Gallipoli

Lest We Forget

Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: joanna69 on Wednesday 11 November 09 12:21 GMT (UK)
THEY WERE THE BRAVEST.  THEY WERE THE BEST.

WWI

Leonard Chivers.   Died in 1917 aged 21.   Buried in Jerusalem.
Herbert Clothier.   Died in 1917 aged 30.   Buried in Ruyaulcourt, France.
William Clothier.    Died in 1918 aged 30.   Buried Ypres, Belgium.

WWII

Norman Gale. D.F.M.  Died 1944 aged 23.  Buried in Bassevelle, France.


What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.


September - October, 1917
Wilfred Owen

We will remember them.
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: morgana on Wednesday 11 November 09 15:23 GMT (UK)
      Henry Edward Hunt
      3nd Field Sqdn, Royal Engineers, who died age 21 on 27 Sept 1915
      Remembered with honour
      Loos Memorial
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: taffess on Wednesday 11 November 09 15:39 GMT (UK)
Remember Aaron Scott.  Private Lancashire Fusiliers died 6/4/1917 age 24yrs husband of Mary Carroll (formerly Scott)
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Maggie1895 on Wednesday 11 November 09 18:51 GMT (UK)
Robert Wilson Porter (Uncle Bertie)
Lieutenant, 9th Div (attached 4th/5th)
The Black Watch
Killed at Passchendaele
11th January 1918

Lewis Owen
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Queen Mary
Killed at the Battle of Jutland
31st May 1916

Geoffrey Robbins
Sergeant, 82 Squadron,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in the air over Europe
12th October 1941

Remembered Always
Title: Re: 11th November
Post by: Greensleeves on Wednesday 11 November 09 20:37 GMT (UK)
In memory of my great uncle:

Robert Waller Pearl of 1st Btn Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Born 1881 Brettenham, Suffolk
Died of wounds on 29 December 1916 at No 8 General Hospital, Bois-Guillame