In remembrance
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25 October 2013 16:49249894here are some nice photos.
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27 October 2013 19:42250299 - Brian Dixon
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27 October 2013 19:43250300 - Brian Dixon
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27 October 2013 19:44250301 - Brian Dixon
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28 October 2013 05:43250355 - 28 October 2013 08:53250376Brian, a suggestion. As it's the WWI centenary next year, why don't you turn this thread into a blog?I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- Brian Dixon
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28 October 2013 19:19250452 - Brian Dixon
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29 October 2013 15:00250541something nearby worth having a look at.
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31 October 2013 07:18250706 - Brian Dixon
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31 October 2013 15:05250758 - Brian Dixon
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2 November 2013 21:22250949 - 3 November 2013 13:24251020WW1 memories: my grandfather's story
The Imperial War Museum wants us all to share stories of relatives who fought in the First World War. Toby Helm looks through the letters, diaries and photographs of his own grandfather and uncovers a harrowing and haunting picture of life on the frontline.
"It all begins so cheerfully, in gorgeous weather, with the troops itching to join the great adventure abroad. As the 2nd Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry sets sail from Dublin for Le Havre on an old cargo ship, the SS Buteshire, on 14 August 1914, a chorus of hoots and sirens fills the riverside air as a large crowd sends them noisily on their way. It feels, in the words of a young medical officer on board, "like the realisation of the dream of every soldier". When they head out into the open sea and are sailing towards Land's End, a message is read out to all those on deck from King George V. "You are leaving home to fight for the safety and honour of my Empire," he tells them. "I pray God to bless you and guard you and bring you back victorious."
Just two and a half months later the same 26-year-old doctor, who kept a daily diary, beautifully written in pencil in his standard-issue Army Book 129, is holed up in a farm in northeastern France which he has chosen as his aid post, just outside a tiny village called Richebourg-l'Avoué. The battalion is already severely depleted. The retreat from Mons in August and early September and the subsequent "race to the sea" have taken a terrible toll. But what is unfolding now is even worse than what went before..."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/03/ww1-memories-imperial-war-museum-shareIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 3 November 2013 13:55251021Of course, the stories that stem from the lives touched by the 1914-18 war are many and varied. It was the mention of the 'trunk' in the story above that reminded me of this, the tale of one German who did not make it home himself...
http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.com/gottfried-sandrock.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Brian Dixon
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3 November 2013 18:36251042https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/p480x480/1426245_674163445942083_540282869_n.jpg
picture taken on the menin gate ramparts. - Brian Dixon
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4 November 2013 15:04251156some ww1 headstone renewals.
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4 November 2013 19:24251200a visit from a Victoria cross winner.
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4 November 2013 19:26251201 - Brian Dixon
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4 November 2013 21:43251219 - 5 November 2013 14:53251288'Tree-huggers' of WWI...
https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/52751e38e4b01fc33230d4aa
Stories, correspondence and photographs.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Brian Dixon
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5 November 2013 15:00251291a very intresting article there tom.