Remembrance

[Mayfly]

Thinking of all those who have gone before who gave their lives for our freedom.

RIP & God Bless.

[Aceyone]

Absolutely and may a generation never have to give their lives away again .RIP

[34053]

We Will Remember Them.

PW

[Spitfire]

Remembering my Grandad George Clay who bravely fought on the Somme in WW1 and was wounded twice and sent back to fight again twice - but thankfully survived the horror of the war and died peacefully aged 96 at home with his family...

Without his fortuitous survival I would not be here I once asked him about his time in the trenches on the Somme and all he would say was 'There are things humans see and experience that cannot be told to other humans' - we could get no more from him.

Also of his brother James (Jim) Clay who sadly did not survive and was killed (no known grave) on 17th May 1918 (nearly there ) at Pozieres and is commemorated on the Pozieres war memorial in Northern France.

[Sooty655]

Remembering my maternal grandfather John Thomas Ward, 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) who died of wounds in Flanders on 16 February 1916. He is buried at Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery south east of Calais.