For Remembrance Week

[Winterbloom21]

It is certainly piece of film that people should see.  I started to go when I saw the little puffs of smoke from the guns as they saluted the ship coming in to Dover.  But the piece that really horrified me was the text that told us who was in the cathedral and that it included 100 women who had lost both their husband and all their sons.

[rachelralph]

i shall be remembering many loved ones lost in recent conflict. my daddy was a soldier and for me rememberance day is very important. my own children who are 3,7 and 8 are wearing poppies and they know the signifcance of them too. so many children dont! the 2 older ones will be attending a rememberance day parade with the scouts, and attending church also.

also remembering George Frederick Lever died sept 1914 leaving an orphaned son.

and still fighting my cousin Zach Smith serving with the us army. xx

[Sloe Gin]

Click on my link below "Names Familiar To All"

[Viktoria]

 Thankyou RabbitB,  I`ll watch that again , it got rather blurred part way through -- ---- need a hankie.
I think it must have been quite comforting to those who had  missing  relatives without a known grave to think the unknown soldier could be one of  their loved ones .

The Roll of Honour for The Accrington Pals shows  three and four of the same name and address occuring many many times. There was hardly a street without casualties and you can hardly imagine what it must have been like after the first day of the battle of the Somme when the Regiment were almost wiped out, and the telegrams  were being delivered thick and fast amid news in the daily papers that it had  all been a resounding success!!!!
 It is hardly believable that it could have happened, but it did.
                                                                                                 Viktoria.

[Polldoll]

Remembering .... a grandfather
Pte John Reynolds  6021
and his younger brother
Pte Arthur Reynolds 7074.
Both were Old Contemptibles; soldiers in 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regt.part of the B.E.F.

They both died on the same day 1st Nov 1914 during the 1st Battle of Ypres at Wytschaete in which the Battlion suffered their worst casualties in any action previous to this.Their losses were terrible. Five officers were killed, three officers were severely injured and two hundred and ninety three other ranks were killed, wounded and missing.

Also my great Uncle:-
Pte William Soutar 6639 2nd Battalion The Kings Own Scottish Borderers who died from wounds on 21 Oct 1914.

Also another  great Uncle :-
Pte Allan Jackson 43454 11th  Battalion Sherwood Foresters Regt. who died 22 Aug 1916.

Also
Pte Sidney Wright 52286 The Royal Fusiliers  who died 29th Apr 1917 in Arras France.
Remembered with immeasurable Pride for their Sacrifice.
Polly

 
The photo was taken in the summer, a mile from where I live, when hundreds of thousands of poppies filled an eight acre field.
It was a poignant sight to behold.

[Rabbit B]

Like everyone else, I found that the film reduced me to tears. So do your poppies Polldoll, they are truly beautiful   This is an emotional time of year for all of us

Lest we forget, they say, how could any of my generation ever forget them.

To all of the young people, please remember that, it must never ever happen again.

They died for your freedom, as well as ours.

[Seoras]

The Imperial War Museum is publishing photos of soldiers from WW1 between now and 2014.It is part of a colection they amassed between 1917 and 1920 and can be viewed at
www.1914.org/faces/
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[seahall]

Lest We Forget. 11.11.2011

Polly your picture is beautiful and so is the Movie to the
Unknown Soldier which was so moving.

I made my background paper on Uncle George's card from
a photo I took in the Summer.

Pte. George Sibley, 2nd Batt. Northants Regt. 
Pte. Walter Luck, 2nd Batt. Northants Regt.
Pte. Sidney Arthur Eady, 2nd Batt. West Yorkshire Regt.

Also in Memory of Pte. Harry Freer, 54th (East Anglia) Div. Cyclist Coy.
Pte. Frederick Onley, 6th Batt. Essex Regt.

Sandy

[rachelralph]

just shared my 2 minutes silence with ITV the old vetrens on this morning brought tears to my eyes.