Remembrance Day - November 11

[Polldoll]

I saw this field of Poppies yesterday as I said goodbye to Cazza , my friend on here from Australia and thought you might like to share it with me on this thread as it seems appropriate  and in memory of my husband's grandfather
 Private John Reynolds 1st Lincolnshire Regt  who died on 1st  November 1914 in Flanders.

[Lynn H]

What a beautiful photo polldoll.


                           Lynn.

[Polldoll]

Thanks ... I must have taken about 30 while I was there ... I will post a few more as we lead up to Rememberance Sunday...   

[PaulaToo]

Poll, that is so appropriate.....
Thank you for posting it.

[blodwen]

First I will remember my Dad - it was his birthday.  He died in 1993.

Then, a great-uncle on my mother's side -
William George Sibley, age 21
Private, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died: 10/03/1915
Won the Dehli Durbar Medal in 1911.
Remembered on the War Memorial, Le Touret, France.

Vivien

[Thudnut]

Springbok,
I was one of the thousands who signed the petition to overturn the disgraceful situation at Grays Lane.  I am the proud owner of an 'Op NIMBY' polo shirt:
http://www.handmadebymachine.com/store/index.php?crn=210

However, returning to the point of the thread, may I respectfully post in remembrance of those who are giving their life in the service of their country, during our own lifetime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLaw6lu8png

... and my friends who have gone on before..

Jonathan Tapper - 1994
Richard Cook - 1994
Graham Forbes - 1994
Kevin Hardie - 1994
Michael Patton - 1996
David Denbury - 1991
Robert Consiglio - 1991
Vincent Phillips - 1991
Stephen Lane - 1991

RIP Gents

Thudnut

[madfan]

Thudnut,

Thank you for posting the youtube site. It was so moving, I have tears streaming down my face. My brother came home safe and well a few months ago, but lost many friends.
They shall never be forgotten.

Madfan

[oldtimer]

The Soldier


If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
    In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
    Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
    Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
    A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
        Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
    And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
        In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke 1887-1915

[CatOne]

Thanks for the links Thudnut, the youtube site brought tears to my eyes. (my husband will now also be a proud owner of one of those Op Nimby Polo shirts!)

Remembering all our servicemen and women, present and past .....