For Remembrance Day

[BettyofKent]

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

[Rabbit B]

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.

[nestagj]

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

[Finley 1]

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.

[Cal241]

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

[PrueM]

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!

[PaulaToo]

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.

[LizzieW]

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

[aspin]

For My husbands Uncle Wilfred  Douglas only 23 years old

Died in Burma
1945

Elizabeth