#Somme100

[Black Pearl]

We Will Never Forget

 

 

[FUJI]

Very appropriate BP....... My wife's dad served and fought with The East Lancs Regiment on the Somme.....he survived to tell the tale too...... He was around ten years older than her mum.....an extremely strict but kindly man.

He played the....Last Post.....on his cornet at many Services of Remembrance; being a long time brass band member.......I remember him with great fondness; I was with him when he died.

R.I.P HARRY DAVENPORT.

FUJI

 

[Phil]

Appropriate indeed. I had 2 great uncles killed in the wars, one in WWI, the other WWII.

I was surprised how little this morning's 2 minute silence had been publicised and observed. At 07:35 at work I was asked why I hadn't answered the phone a few minutes earlier, my boss was more than a little embarrassed when I explained.

[Denis]

I listened to Radio four this morning. The rapid fire of the guns at 0728, one a second for 100 seconds almost did it.  The two minute silence nearly did it....  but the shrill blasts of the whistles signifying for order to go over the top made the hairs on my neck stand up, and I confess to a very large almost immovable lump in the throat.

[Ryewolf]

In Accrington they did a Roll Call of the men who fell during the Battle of the Somme from the 11th Service Battalion - The Accrington Pals. I had hoped to get to the four memorials Oak Hill Park Accrington, Gatty Park Church, Oswaldtwistle and The East Lancs Regiment Commerative Stone in Accrington and take a photo of each, but alas the weather, either rain, hail or bad light - or all 3 together defated any chances of a photo. I did get to them all, though I've no idea from my mothers side of the family if any were there at the Battle of the Somme..

[Brian]

My Dad's brother died in the Battle of The Somme. He was only 19.

[kev7d]

I have a great respect for them all. 

[Denis]

I dont think there was a family untouched in one way or another from WW I. My Grandmother lost her brother at Passchendaele,  his name is on the Menin gate at Ypres.

 

[Craftysnapper]

Very nicely done BP and appropriate.

My Grandfather was wounded at the Battle of the Somme ,he lay in the mud for three days with a  shrapnel wound,strangely enough he always thought the mud saved him from bleeding to death before he was found.

[Clicker]

Thank you Beepy...  I made a week long pilgrimage to Flanders in 2013 following in the footsteps of seven great uncles and a grandfather who fell in the Great War  . ...two of them perished on the Somme and I have copies of the War Diaries that document what happened . It makes for heart trending reading  ... We will remember them 

[Korky]

Number 1 works best for me - beautifully simple, beautifully poignant.

Korky

[Kobione]

Lovely post to give recognition of the efforts, and losses, of those that were involved.  We will remember them