11th November

[Dorliz]

       "the price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance"

[majm]

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.

[Tephra]

They'll always be with us.


Barbara

[LoneyBones]

John George WALTON. 1 September 1918. Mont St Quentin, Somme.
Three of his brothers also served.
Lest we forget.


Leonie.

[LizzieW]

George Reuben Benson 24 November 1917, Cambrai, France

[Redroger]

In memoriam Jack Cornwell VC 8 Jan 1900 to 2 June 1916 Battle of Jutland, my mother's cousin.

[Dorliz]

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

[Redroger]

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.

[kerryb]

Henry James Baldwin, 16 June 1915, Ypres, France

Percy Baldwin, 3 March 1918, Somme, France

Your names will be remembered by a new generation.