Remembrance Day - November 11

[alftabor]

In Memory Of relatives lost in the Empire service

Trooper Charles Millman, South Africa 1900
Lance Corporal Hermann Ernst Beecken, Bugnicort France 1916
Petty Officer Frederick Arthur Tabor, Royal Australian Navy HMAS Sydney 1941 Indian Ocean

Lest We forget

[Springbok]

I too mourn my lost and but have a greater anger at the treatment of our boys and girls who have been defending each and every one of us.

My particular family member was lost  in WW1  and my dad and his friends also suffered in both WW1 and 2.

my anger come from the treatment of sailors of the merchant Navy by the British Public .and at this present day there is no real improvement.A rehab center  for war casualties was objected to by NIMBY residents on the grounds of Parking issues caused  by visitors!!

I know that the majority of Family researchers develop an empathy with their ancestors but  just see this site for the MN

http://ss-tregenna.co.uk/Pdf/03%2009%2006.pdf

Spring

[CatOne]

Thats disgusting Springbok, and I would slap the silly faces of those "giggling girls" who insulted our brave men and women. I don't think anyone on here would here would show such disrespect. They are all remembered as the heroes they were, and still are being today

[PaulaToo]

Oh dear, did they have no brains? Without the Merchant Navy ferrying the grub, those giggling girls would have been dead uns!

[Jean McGurn]

I think the biggest problem for our galant men of the Merchant Navy was they did not have a recognizable uniform like the Army, Navy and Air Force. So it would have been pure ignorance especially as the ages members of the MN ranged from young men  to old men.

Jean

[LizzieW]

Not forgetting my great uncle

GEORGE REUBEN BENSON
Private 46530  19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars      

who died of his wounds at Flanders on 24 November 1917 and is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval.

I didn't even know of his existence until I started researching my family tree.

Liz

[cathaldus]

Sacred to the memory of my Uncle Patrick Mason,  Regt. No.5926,  Royal Irish Regt.  Died Memetz Wood,  on the Somme, 14th. July, 1916.  No known grave.
Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. 

                   "In Flanders fields the poppies blow,
                   Between the crosses row on row,
                   That marks our place; and in the sky
                   The larks,  still bravely singing,  fly,
                   Scarce heard amid the guns below"

[Abiam2]

I would like to record my thoughts on Remembrance Day of my maternal Grandfather Ernest John Wyse (4817) who served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment pre WW1 in the South African Boer War, Egypt and the UK. 

And again served with the Oxon and Bucks Light Infantry 241009 from 1917 possibly in France or at home in the UK.  He did not die in service but died in 1930 of consumption aged 50.  I never knew him but my mother was very proud of him as am I.

And thanks to Phil, Neil, and Forester.  And AnneMc especially for finding his Royal Berks. Reg. records at Kew,
Thank you,
Abiam

[baz54]

In Memory Of Private Joseph Skears Northamptonshire Yeomanry died aged 21 years on 11th April 1917 near Arras France.