On 11 November 1918 the Armistice was signed between the Allied and German armies, ending the First World War – a global war that lasted four years with the total human cost to Britain and the Empire of 3,049,972 casualties, including 658,705 dead.
Of all the millions of men who joined up to serve and defend the country, 90 years later the ranks have thinned dramatically. Now, there are just three stalwarts of the battlefields living in the UK. Harry Patch, Bill Stone and Henry Allingham are the only survivors to bear witness to those dark days. When they are no longer with us, the Great War will pass from living human memory finally to history.
Henry Allingham has said: "These hellish memories of war are ones I'd rather forget. But never my comrades. Never the men who gave their everything." During a visit to a war cemetery in France, he was quoted as saying, "All of us must remember them, always."
So posities, did you have someone in your family who was killed or injured in the wars or one of the lucky ones to come home?
Why not name them here?
If you have not already done so, please go out and buy a Poppy right now?
I will start.
AE MGC Aged 23 KIA France 1918
DWE 1890-1968 Rifle Brigade Old Contemptable Wounded France 1914
DWE 1920-2004 Royal Artilary
CW 1921-1972 Merchant Navy
http://www.myremembranceday.org.uk/
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Remembrance day
"I once asked a girl if she was an undertaker cos i had a stiff that needed seeing too"
" I once went into a watch menders, slapped me knob on the desk and said can you put a couple of hands on that?"
" I once went into a watch menders, slapped me knob on the desk and said can you put a couple of hands on that?"