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Remembering the wars.

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  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623


    A few weeks ago I went to Normandy and visited my Grandad’s best friend’s grave and laid this photo of three friends from Crayford on the day they signed up. My Grandad survived, Albert Eldridge died in Normandy and was in the same company as my Grandad. Thomas ‘Titch’ Martin died in Dunkirk. Such a special place to visit.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    We were at Sidcup today on Parade with the 6th Sidcup Cubs, Scouts and Explorers… very poignant as usual. The Cubs, at their
    age, always do well for pretty much an hours service at the Church. My youngest laid the Cubs wreath.

    Numbers seemed a bit down on last year as Kemnals Scouts didn’t attend.

    Agree with you Seth, that’s ridiculous.

  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    We were at Sidcup today on Parade with the 6th Sidcup Cubs, Scouts and Explorers… very poignant as usual. The Cubs, at their
    age, always do well for pretty much an hours service at the Church. My youngest laid the Cubs wreath.

    Numbers seemed a bit down on last year as Kemnals Scouts didn’t attend.

    Agree with you Seth, that’s ridiculous.

    Nice one mate, was a pity about the fire engine in the middle of the last post though 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Nug said:


    A few weeks ago I went to Normandy and visited my Grandad’s best friend’s grave and laid this photo of three friends from Crayford on the day they signed up. My Grandad survived, Albert Eldridge died in Normandy and was in the same company as my Grandad. Thomas ‘Titch’ Martin died in Dunkirk. Such a special place to visit.
    That's a great photo.

    And I'm wondering from that picture which one was "Titch"? (Just kidding. Love those old nicknames, where nobody got offended about stuff like that.) RIP.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    My grandad was in Burma, royal engineers. 

    I was out in town this morning and there was a parade which was well attended. I do wonder if the significance of remembrance Sunday is changing with the number of people who know someone who fought in a war? My kids were babies when my grandad died (other one died a while before)? Whereas just about everyone in my school will have known someone 


  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,918
    McBobbin said:
    My grandad was in Burma, royal engineers. 

    I was out in town this morning and there was a parade which was well attended. I do wonder if the significance of remembrance Sunday is changing with the number of people who know someone who fought in a war? My kids were babies when my grandad died (other one died a while before)? Whereas just about everyone in my school will have known someone 


    100% this. I'm 41 so have direct relations who I've met, who were in wars. Chances of anyone under 30 having the same is quite slim. 


  • My Grandad served as a stoker in the Royal Navy in the Second World War mainly in the Far East. He also served on board HMS Frobisher which was a support ship on D-Day.

    He passed away in 1976 and I was gifted his war medals by my Grandmother. They are on of my most treasured possessions.

    I will be looking to get them mounted and framed properly in the near future. At the moment they are still in the MOD that they were sent in together with a list of the medals and bars.

    I can post photos if anyone is interested.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Talking of living connections, my aforementioned grandfather above as well as being on the Somme fought in the Battle of Belmont in the Second Boer War.
    Like my father with Burma, he didn’t talk much about his military experience. Probably because he deserted his regiment after his return, but then re enlisted under a different name when World War One broke out.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    Let’s remember those who fought for free speech by telling others what they can and can’t do 
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,974
    edited November 2024
    At 10.55 I stuck Radio 4 on and at 11 I could hear the canons go at Swanley and somewhere a bit further away. It was sad to still hear the M20 but cheering to hear a couple of Lorrys blasting their horns at 11 exactly