Gallipoli

[liverpool annie]

With just a few hours left to the 25th April ....... the day the Gallipoli landing is commemorated

May we always remember the sacrifices these men made ( on all sides ) and pray they did not die in vain. It is up to us, the living and descendents of these soldiers, to make sure their deaths are remembered, and the reason for their deaths. Some made it home and died years later, but still carried the scars of war.

[old rowley]

well said Annie, tomorrow, as the sun breaks into the first light of dawn over "my" Essex countryside my thoughts will be turned to those ANZAC's that landed at ANZAC Cove and also to those British and French forces that were at Cape Helles. As you have rightly said it is up to us all to keep their memory alive, and if it means me lifting my sorry carcass out of my pit to walk to our war memorial to lay a small cross of remembrance at dawn on the 25th, then it is but a small price that I pay for their large one.

old rowley

[trish251]

Hi Annie & O R

My grandfather & brother were in France, but not Gallipoli. My father & his brother served in WWII. Much remembrance in my family on Anzac Day, but I do sometimes wonder do we glorify war by this  - what we really want is to prevent it. I have NO memory of my grandfather's generation ever discussing the war. My father talked about it quite a lot in the last year of his life, but rarely before that.

You did remind me of why I couldn't get into the Archives for a War Service record this evening. Obviously much activity - I kept getting a too busy message

Trish

[liverpool annie]

It's the death of thousands and thousands of soldiers I'll remember tomorrow - not the war !

I know it's Anzac Day but many British troops died also that day .......

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,300883.0.html

Annie

[*sparkle*]

In anticipation of day break tomorrow, I'm remembering my g.g. Uncle; Pte John HOGG (SMITH) 10/534 7th Wellington Regiment, NZEF.

Until recently it seems he was forgotten about, certainly by my family. He was wounded on 29th April 1915 after arriving at Gallipoli on the 25th. He died from his wounds on 6th May.

*Not Forgotten*

Tx

[meles]

A song to commemorate the slain and the injured...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3pU7rsim3E

meles

[charlotteCH]

Remembering a brother who as a Lancaster pilot died in the March  1944 Nuremberg Raid, aged 20 and 2 months.

Also a father who survived both Gallipoli and  France.

We are indebted to men such as these for our liberty and freedom of speech.

charlotte

[charlotteCH]

To remember those who sacrificed to keep us free and safe from oppression is not glorifying war. It is being thankful for what has been done for us.

My brother , a Lancaster pilot, was killed over Germany in 1944, aged 20 years and 2 months. 

My father survived Gallipoli and France.

I remember them daily and on Anzac Day thank them and the many others like them for what they did for us all.

charlotte

Moderator comment: topics merged

[old rowley]

No I don't think it is glorifying war when we remember those that have fallen. It is the fact that I can do this that brings it home to me the sacrifice that many have given in the past, and are still doing, which enables me to pay my respects to them. Last year I was honoured to be asked to be part of the march pass at the  cenotaph in Whitehall. I have never served in the armed force's nor had I any wish to do so when I was growing up but went with an open mind for what the day held. The group that I was with were all, except one, of my age group and generation and are children of ex prisoners of war. All of us were there to honour our fathers, and others, memories I do not think that any one of us "marched" to glorify any part of the war. The one person who was not of my age group was himself an ex-pow and to be honest I felt humble just being in his presence. Those men, and women, who served in all the branches of the armed services found no "glory"  in warfare and to be honest I have yet to find anyone who thinks that way. So tomorrow when I lay my small remembrance cross I will remember ANZAC's from both world war's from Pte Frank Bent of the 2nd Australian Brigade who fought at Gallipoli (who funnily enough I am just reading about in Max Arthur's excellent book "forgotten voices of the Great War") to Weary Dunlop  MS, FRCS of the 2nd AIF in the 2nd ww.

old rowley