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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: BettyofKent on Monday 08 November 10 20:26 GMT (UK)
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I thought it would be good to once again remember our ancestors who give their lives in The Great War, & all wars since.
In Memory of
Second Lieutenant Lionel Ernest Schloss, 44th Co. Machine Gun Corps.
Died 31st July 1917 Age 23.
No known grave, his name is on the Ypres Memorial
Sergeant Bertram Max Frankal, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 466 Sqdn.
Shot down over Germany 8th April 1945 Age 29
No known grave, his name is on the Runnymede Memorial.
Alive when he bailed out, but never seen again.
F/O RRN Forrest, age 21, who died with him, buried in Hanover War Cemetary.
With grateful thanks to Kiran of RootsChat, as due to his kindness I now have a picture of cousin Bertie.
And for all those in the Forgotten Army who didn't survive the Burma Campaign.
The Kohima Epitaph
When you go Home
Tell Them of us and say
For your Tomorrow
We gave our Today
Betty
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Remembering again: -
All the brave men & women who have laid down their lives in the cause of Freedom, in all the conflicts this country has fought in.
In both the World wars. Those who were or killed or injured on the home front, defending our freedom.
Members of the Fire Brigades. The Ambulance Services. Nursing Service. The Police. Home Guards. ARP Wardens.
People in reserved occupations. Men, Women & Children who were killed, injured or scarred for life. It was their war too.
But especially My Gran’s brother who died of his wounds at home. after the Great War. His name is on the big war memorial in Reading Cemetery
Ian killed by a tree bomb in Cyprus in the 1955-1959 troubles. He was in my husband’s regiment. All the men killed by the terrorists out there during that terrible time.
My son’s friend Fred killed in the Falklands war 1982 and all the men who died with him.
Men of the Korean War, Aden, Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland, all the other conflicts too numerous to mention.
Our brave soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Without their sacrifice the world would be a very different place. We owe them our freedom.
We will remember them.
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My Great Uncle Owen Pritchard who died in October 1917 as a prisoner of the Turks after being captured in Gaza.
Those who do return but whose experiences colour the rest of their lives - my father who suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of 62 when every night in his dreams he returned to the jungles of Burma and post bomb Hiroshima, his mate "Wil Bach" whose mistreatment by the hands of the Japanese made him suffer for the rest of his life.
We will remember them !
Thanks for posting the Kohima Epitaph; Betty; it always had great meaning to my father who had left many friends in Burma and the Far East.
N
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A time of special thoughts for all those involved in those terrible times - God bless them all.
I mention particularly
Charles Annis Green
and
Ernest Clarke
plus other members of my wonderful family. xxxxxxxx I for one will never forget them.
Here is a note written by my Great Uncle.... and shows his feelings at the time.
Xin.
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Remembering all those who have fought for us and gave their lives so we can have the life we have....
Special thoughts to my two great uncles (one from each side of my family) lost in WW1... Arthur Leonard & John Edward
Cal
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My great great uncle (Cal241's great-uncle :) ) Arthur Leonard Ingram, 9th Bn East Surrey Regiment, and my grandad Harry's cousin Frank Gordon, 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders.
Never forgotten!
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Just a big, from the heart, THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICE
All of us who are alive today owe everything we have to these men.
God Bless them All.
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Thinking once again of my g.uncle George Reuben Benson died in Cambrai on 24 November 1917, also his cousin's son Clive Purchon who died in France on 12 June 1917.
Lizzie
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For My husbands Uncle Wilfred Douglas only 23 years old
Died in Burma
1945
Elizabeth
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Linking this back to here from an earlier posting on Rootschat.. fabulous photographs http://www.flickr.com/photos/16717264@N03/sets/72157625173617699/comments/#comment72157625342910132
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For my grandfather, Wilfrid Firth Appleyard, who died at Le Sars on 7 October 1916 and is commemorated at Thiepval.
Sue
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Another earlier posting on rootschat; http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/sets/72157621922606653/
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This speaks for itself;
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Remembering my great uncles, Sidney Allen, Charles Allen and Fred Clegg, who gave their lives in "war to end all wars".
Also my uncle John Smith who died at Monte Cassino in WW11
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Not forgotting my great grandmother Rosehannah Moore, and her daughter Ada and grandaughter Alice killed in a bombing raid.
Never forgotten.
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Check out the link in my signature.
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WW1
Edward Albert Hales South Wales Borderers
John James Gooderidge South Wales Borderers
Workmates and brother in laws,died within three days of each other,left a sister without a brother and husband.
Bernard Danaher South Wales Borderers, nan's little brother.
God bless,rest in peace and thank you.
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On Monday I noted my loved ones here replies181-3.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0aci/
Private GEORGE SIBLEY, 3/9906, 2nd Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment
who died age 20 on 06 October 1915
Private SIDNEY ARTHUR EADY, 268909, 2nd Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
who died age 19 on 24 April 1918
Private WALTER LUCK, 7775, 2nd Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment
who died age 26 on 21 August 1914
Never to be forgotten.
Sandy
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In remembrance of my great great uncle Charles Anscombe died 1915, aged 23 and also Bernard Mahony, my husbands great great uncle died 1918 aged 22.
Not forgetting all those who died in any other conflicts since.
I saw today on the internet that Prince Harry had opened a cemetry for those who died in Afganistan.
It is fantastic that these things are done and all who perish in conflict are not forgotten. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Sarah
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Let us not forget Robert Stead
Elizabeth
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Remembering my paternal grandfather's uncle, Private Albert Edward Chambers of 6th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, buried at Étaples Military Cemetary; and the first husband of one of my paternal grandmother's sisters, Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Ronald Albert Archer of the Royal Air Force Reserve, killed after only 6 months' marriage and buried at Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery.
Also in memory of both my grandfathers, Maurice Herbert Jefferson (1911-1996, RAF) and Horace Chambers (Army) who both fought in WW2.
Katie
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Remembering: John A McKechnie, killed at Pozieres, 23-25th July, 1916 (exact date not known). Initially listed as missing, found in 1923, and buried at Flers.
George Rutherford Buchan, killed at Bullecourt, 11th April, 1917. He has no known grave, he lies near Riencourt.
John Jack, a cousin of George Rutherford, I have only just found out about him, and, since he enlisted in Scotland, I don't know which unit he was with, or the date of his death.
Glenn Morton McKechnie, an able seaman aboard HMAS Sydney, 1941, his grave is the ocean off the West Australian coast, the wreck only found last year.
Don Mckechnie, George Nickolas Sparks, William Buchan, John Buchan (my Grandfather), the other 2 Jack cousins- thank you, for signing up to those dreadful wars, for us. Bless you all.
We WILL remember them......
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I'd also like to remember other members of my family tree who gave their lives:
Tom Archbell, Royal Field Artillery, who died 3 November 1917 and is commemorated at Ploegsteert,Belgium.
Walter William Archbell, who emigrated to Australia with his family in 1913, but returned to Europe with the Australian 8th Battalion and died in Belgium on 25 October 1917.
Allen Walter Archbell, Walter William's son, who died in WW2 aboard HMAS Sydney on 19/20 November 1941.
Other members of my families fought in both World Wars but returned home safely.
Sue
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So glad I discovered my ancestors who fought in WW1, they have been lost in the mist of time for far too long.....
In memory of Pte Charles Thomas Hibbert, The King's Liverpool Reg., died 14th July 1916 Remembered with honour at Thiepval Memorial.
In memory of Gunner George Churley Boase, Royal Garrison Artillery, died 10th November 1918 in hospital Liverpool.
For all the boys who have lost their lives in all wars...we will remember them.
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Private Richard Wright, 9th Batallion, The King's Liverpool Regiment.
Wounded at Loos, September 1915 and died, age 21 on the 7th November. Buried at Les Gonards, Versailles.
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Just in case anyone has missed it,
Have a look at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=495236.new
If you have relis who were in the RAF in the war you might like to know about this.
Rabbit B