? War - could someone restore and date please? Completed

[Woodentop50]

Jill,

You are welcome , the photos just went together.

I too am a fifties kid , but I have been to the graveyard overlooking Passchendaele , where there are hundreds and hundreds of graves , the silence screams at you. Or if you were to go to the Menin gate when they play the Last Post , you start to get a sense of the loss. we can never feel what they did.

                 Jim

[Rossdal3]

Hi Tony,

I asked my Dad if he knew who had taken the picture.  He said it came by post from the Graves Comission and was sent to Wiliam's Mum, Mary Ann Gaunt.  Dad thinks that it was common practice for the army to take the pictures when they buried the men! Luckily my Grandmother Clara Gaunt kept after it after her mother's death and someone cared enough to pass it on to us.

Cheers,
Jill

[oldtimer]

Jim, that photo is so evocative! Like Annie, it brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye.

[chinakay]

Absolutely brill, Jim.

Cheers,
China

[Woodentop50]

Hello again Jill,

Here's another Late ish  one.   

                                                Jim

[Rossdal3]

Thanks Jim!  I really love it!

I spent all day yesterday researching this WW1 battle that ended in so much loss and in William's death specifically!  I've never had the stomach for it and still don't.  I do though appreciate much more, the very great sacrifice that these men made and it did reinforce the horror of the times they lived through.  I've been staunch anti war all my life, but this year I'll buy a poppy!!!

I had a small hope that maybe someone might look at this site and recognise the others in the picture.  I would love to know who they were and for them to have their life mean something once more, as William's has been commemorated over these last few days.

My Dad was really choked up when he looked at the work you did with these, and he will love this when I show him too!!!

with much gratitude,
Jill

[Woodentop50]

Hello Jill,

I'm glad it was appreciated , just doing my bit to hopefully make people happier.

The expression 'the great sacrifice' is so often used , but I have always thought that it was akin to mass murder. Sending troops against machine guns , head on !
Quite a few of the generals of the day , still had the mindset of the charge of the light brigade days.

I believe it was something like 20 million people died in that war (on all sides) not forgetting about half a million horses.

                                           Cheerful Jim

[saddles]

Hi Jill............Heres a colour version to add to your collection.


Carolyn 

[t.hawksley]

You Guys are good. One day I hope to be as much use as you Good People. Well Done Carolyn and Jim.

                                                Thelma.