A very moving video, with subtitles to understand very broad Yorkshire! Lest we forget. Boys, yeah boys 14 years old and not much more, fought to keep us free. I'm proud of the boys, men & women, that did it to keep me free.
I’m not sure if any are interested but I have found a lot information on ancestors killed in the war in the linked web site. I have found a few instances of people I didn’t even know existed, and it can paint an even more tragic picture of just what people lost. http://ww1hull.org.uk/index.php/component/mtree/search-by/city?value=HULL I have also got a lot of information from the commonwealth War graves site https://www.cwgc.org
Just got back from laying a wreath at the Cenotaph. Incredible turnout today and a really nice service I thought. I’m there every year but it’s unbelievably humbling and emotional every time We will remember them.
Just seen the beach art created around the country shown pre the Westminster Abbey commemoration on the Beeb arranged by Danny Boyle. Just wonderful. Today has been a massively thought provoking day.
I don't buy a Poppy, but that's just personal. My mums two uncles where both killed WW1. Aged 21 and 24 in France. It's a bit ignorant of me but I don't know much about them. Bringing it back to the present I have three friends that are ex REME and three are who currently in the navy.
My Grandfather Alec Nalton from Driffield(E.Yorks regiment) survived the horrors of WW1 ,sadly his 2 brothers and his uncle lost their lives.Grandad died when I was 2 but my late Mother told me that he never spoke of it. I laid a cross in George Square,Glasgow today and still have a lump in my throat....It doesn't bare thinking about the horrors that happened over on the Western front and everywhere else that these brave lads gave their lives for us!!! God bless them all...
