Lest We Forget.

[mrg]

November 11
In Memory of those fallen in all wars.

[Glenn R]

Private 203210 H. A. Dobson. 7th Btn North Staffordshire Regiment. Killed France 29/03/1918.

Private 9259 J. T. Erskine. 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment. Killed Mesopotamia 18/04/1916.

My ancestors. Your sacrifice is not forgotten lads.

[TWP]

Glenn, do you have more info on the circumsatnces behind their services and deaths?

TW

[bodes]

Glenn, do you have more info on the circumsatnces behind their services and deaths?

TW

My Uncle....Sgt. George C. Mavis....Killed in Action.....April 19, 1945... In Germany....20 Years Old.....May We Never Forget His Sacrifice..... Bodes

[Laurence Strong]

Lt Maxwell Strong RNVR 1913-2002

Dad,You are never forgotten

[Scott Powell]

My Grandfather, Leonard C Mathis, KIA July 26,1944, by "friendly fire" in Operation Cobra

[Glenn R]

Hi TW. I don't know a great deal about their deaths unfortunately. I think looking at the timeframe that Uncle Tom Erskine was killed in the defence of Kut in Mesopotamia. Uncle Harry Dobson was killed in France about the time of the Ludendorff offensive which started 21st March 1918 centering on the Third Army. I do know thaat he'd been in France for about a week.

[Peter Moelans]

Visited the local cemetery yesterday

Graves of died veterans from both world wars in my village:





A 'lost' 'Heldenhuldezerkje':


A bearer of the Belgian 'Fire Cross', notice the reflection of the flowers:

[mrg]

Thanks for all the input lads. did nt want to start it off but now i can add one of my own. J Baker.Grandad you have never been forgotten.

[Adrian Stevenson]

My Great Uncle, Sgt. Sid Thompson. He was killed flying as an air gunner on a Sunderland in 1944. For more about him see here:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?p=529773

Cheers, Ade.

[julesmc]

Farthers, Grandfarthers, Uncle's, Great Uncle's and so on.

What a waste, what a bloody waste, I will never forget my Opa, or any
of the men who died fighting for there country, no matter which country
that happens to be. Heroes every last one of them.

[Laurence Strong]

Unfortuanatly, No one has really learnt anything from their sacrifices, I am not picking any one war going on now, just the fact that mankind is still butchering each other in the name of something or other

[mrg]

Come on lads lets keep this thread going as a mark of respect until rememberance Sunday it the least we can do. Here's a poem might not be 100% correct but its as i remember it. IN FLANDERS FIELD THE POPPIES BLOW. BETWEEN THE CROSSES, ROW BY ROW. THAT MARK OUR PLACE AND IN THE SKY THE LARKS STIIL DO BRAVELY FLY.

[Si1964]

My Grandfarther
226820 Dvr A.V.Conibere RASC 1941

Great Uncle
#? Pte Saffin Egypt WWI


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