Remembrance Day - November 11

[Meaglin]

My Great Uncle John Benedict Scahill 1st/9th Bn The Kings (Liverpool Regiment)
He was wounded on 25 September 1916 and died from his wounds 11 October 1916 age 21, he had been in France for 4 months.
 He is buried at St Sever Cemetery Rouen.

Meaglin

[Zelley]

Hello Zelley,
Thank you for letting me know the Leicestershire Regt. were known as The Green Tigers.
All these pieces of info help with research.
Regards
Foz           

I seem to recall that the motto is:  Forward Regardless

Also, in WW I the regiment fighting on the Western Front
had a dog (rat catcher) as a mascot.  The dog was aptly named Rats.

[Foz]

Hello Zelley,

Thanks for these extra pieces of info. regarding the Leicestershire Regiment.  What a great help you are !!

Regards

Foz      

[Iban Kepala]

In Memory of  6 of the family who did not come back
Swetman, T A Gnr. 1384, R.Fd. A. 27 9 1915 - Bully-Grenay.
Swetman, W J Pte 18465, Ox/Bucks.L.I. 30 7 1916 Thiepval
Swetman, W J Bdr. 50721 R.Fd.A. 2 8 1917 Belg. Bty. Corn.
Swetman,F. Pte. 25850 Ox/Bucks.L.I.30 4 1917 Aubigny.
Swetman, J. Rfmn. 41346, R. Ir. Rfs. 23 3 1918 Pozieres.
Swetman, L C L/Cpl. 64330. M.G.C. 25 8 1918 Vis-en-Artois.

and 2 cousins who also have no known grave.
Coan,G. Pte. 242902, Chesh. Regt. 31 7 1917 Tyne Cot M.
Coan,H. Pte. 242952.S.Lancs. Regt. 22 10 1917 Menin Gate.

"Never to be forgotten"

George.

[RuthieB]

In memory of:

Private J.L. Woolley, 290088, 2nd Batallion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers who doed 20 May 1917; interred at Croisilles


RuthieB

[SheilaM]

In memory of my husband's father John S Mitchell and the crew of Lancaster NE121 who perished whilst on Operation Cahagnes, France on 30 July 1944.

F/S John S Mitchell, DFM, DFC, age 24, Bayeux Cemetery, France
F/L H A B Baker, Age 22, Runnymede
F/O J W Oldham, DFM, age 22, Runnymede
P/O H Glasby, DFC, RAAF, age 23, Bayeux Cemetery, France
F/O G E Howells, Runnymede
F/S L A Lenox, DFM, Bayeux Cemetery, France
3 surviving crew were taken POW

The crew of PB304, 'The Salford Lancaster', Operation Cahagnes, which crashed into the banks of the River Irwell at Pendleton on 30 July 1944

F/L P Lines,
Sgt R Barnes, 25
F/O H Reid, RCAF, 23
F/O J H Steele, 22
Sgt A W Young, 19
Sgt J B T Davenport, 30
Sgt M Singh
Also 2 civilians

Also thinking of all our service men and women who are serving in foreign parts today. 

[Zelley]

 :'(For the Canadian 2 nd Division, the British Commandos and
American Rangers, August 19, 1942 was a day so many were lost
on the beaches in the Dieppe Raid.

A sample of names:
Wallace E. Vickers, Harvey H. Phillips,
John T. Winn, Clayton K. Collison

[Tony Payne]

It's so sad to read all the names and snippets of information to go along with them.  And these are just a few........  We all have a lot to be grateful for, for then and also for the forces serving today.

My best friend's son is a US Marine.  Just came back 2 weeks ago from 6 months in Iraq, has to go back next year for 12 months.  Going back must be so much harder than the first time.  First time everything is new, going back you know the horrors you are going to be facing, and these days you don't have to be in the front line to be in the danger zone...

I was just thinking that I don't know of anyone in my family who was killed in action in either WWI or WWII.  I'm sure someone must have been, but I don't have any record - strange...  I know various family members were in the services, and my grandfather was badly wounded in WWI, but maybe the family just didn't talk about those that didn't come back.

[william james]

In memory of my family who served in both world wars.
Albert George Rice who was gassed in the first war, but came home
His son Richard George Drury Rice who served in the second war and came home.
Albert George ( dutton ) Rice who was a prisoner of war in the far east in the second war and came home .
My grand father who served in both wars and came home.
His son Benjamin Wilson who served in Italy in the second war and came home.

And also dear George a footman who worked in a house in London with my Nan and sent her a silk card home before he went over the top on the first day of the Somme to his death .
Gone but never forgoten