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crazyjoetavola

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Remember Them
« on: 01 July 2009, 18:23:37 »

To those who gave their lives, their health and wellbeing and their innocence on that fateful day;

July 1st 1916.

The first day of the Battle of the Somme.


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I remember with gratitude and humility.
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Re: Remenber Them
« Reply #1 on: 01 July 2009, 18:25:46 »

indeed zulu - nothing to add
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #2 on: 01 July 2009, 18:35:31 »

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die.


Tennyson wrote of an earlier conflict, but his words also rang so-true in the 1st. World war.
Senseless, stagnant and brutal; the Somme consumed a whole generation of our brave.
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #3 on: 01 July 2009, 18:35:49 »

You are not on your own Zulu!
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #4 on: 01 July 2009, 18:45:54 »

Remember them indeed, 60,000 casualties on the first day, 400,000 by the end of the battle in December 1916, killed and injured, contributing to the 722,785 - 772,000 who were killed 1914-18.  :'( :'( :'(

Waste indeed :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #5 on: 01 July 2009, 18:46:08 »

I believe we all have an ancestor who took part in that terrible war.

Let us NOT forget them  :y
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #6 on: 01 July 2009, 18:49:17 »

Luckily my Grandad survived



R.I.P
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #7 on: 01 July 2009, 18:51:55 »

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I believe we all have an ancestor who took part in that terrible war.

Let us NOT forget them  :y


I have two, one of whom:

Edwards, Walter Frank (affectionately known to us as Wally), Private, No. 13369, of the 53rd West Kent Machine Gun Corps, killed 30th July, 1917 at Ypre. Wounded, made his way to the first aid post; lost to the mud, without a known grave :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Re: Remember Them
« Reply #8 on: 01 July 2009, 20:11:17 »

My respect and thoughts are there.
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