General Chat

2nd Corporal John William Hobday. Royal Engineers. Buried in St Sever Cemetery Rouen France. Died 31 March 1918

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Flight Sergeant JACK THOMAS TOPLIS, Royal Air Force, died 6th January 1944. Buried at POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY Poland.

May he never be forgotten, nor the men who flew with him.

Also my mothers 1st husband.
REX E.W. LAKE Killed in action 7th Febuary 1943,
MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY, Tunisia.

Rest in peace one and all.

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Private John Henry Ferguson (Jack), age 26, 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
died 5 October 1916, Rouen, France, from injuries received in battle.Buried St Sever Cemetery. RIP

Petty Officer Rchard Henry Neale, age 24, Royal Navy, died 20th March 1943, lost on H.M Stonehenge, 1st submarine lost in the war against Japan. Gone but not forgotten.

Comrades Lost.

At the graveside of a comrade, see him gently laid to rest,
Not a flower from those who loved him,
Just a wooden cross above him,
With a Padre's prayers he's blessed.

Was the bomb that fell with thunder, dropped in hate to kill his kind?
Or was it aimed, as was his gun,
In duty of a country's son,
With hate of what he did in mind.

Homeward bound a heartbreak letter, "WITH REGRET" and so sincere,
Another soldier lost in action,
Of the total just a fraction,
But to them a million tears.

On his grave the raindrops falling as we turn and walk away,
As if the angels weep in sorrow,
For a soldier lost tomorrow,
And the carnage of today.

Will future generations, of the world they tried to save,
Unite in peace, recall the losses,
Remember all the wooden crosses,
And the lives they did not lose, but GAVE.

R.Bleasedale. MALTA 1942

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Pvte. Charles A Standish killed in France September 16, 1916.
Pvte. Willie Crowther killed in France March 3, 1917.

Remembered with honour and pride by their families.

My Great Uncle, Private Thomas W Barnes. Fatally injured December 1915. God bless you Tommy.

Pte Harry Taylor- Lancashire Fusiliers.
Died in action Passchendaele, Belgium 22/10/1917.

I never knew you but you will always be part of my family tree.

Private Alfred Macaree
killed in action 6th September 1915

Rifleman Charles Macaree
killed in action 3rd March 1917

Rifleman H Macaree
killed in action 30th March 1918

Jessie Horsup nee Paulston
Civilian killed 1st December 1944 due to war operations

Private Elijah James Baber aged 20 Northumberland Fusiliers killed 07/07/1917 - Grevilliers British Cemetary - my great uncle who had a twin sister

Flying Officer Rowland Totham aged 23 RAF Volunteer Reserve killed 17/05/1945 - Singapore Memorial - my aunts first husband

Thank you for this thread - it brings me to tears to think of all these brave men

Enoch E Toplis,
Killed in action 9th April 1917.

Gone but never forgotten.

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Augustus Howard - my uncle
Died 4 March 1945 aged 21over England

Private John Richard Field - gt uncle
2nd Batt. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 11 September 1918 Haurincourt France age 18

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Derek Arthur Little
Died 12 March 1945 Duisberg Germany aged 22

2nd Lieut. Roderick Alexander William Pryse Richardes 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died of wounds 21 June 1918 in Salonica aged 19

Douglas M Harwood
Died aboard HMS Eagle in 1944 aged 31

You can never know how very proud I am of you

Barbx

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For my never-known great uncle, Percy Thomas Bourn, killed 1916 October 12, France.

I echo Winston Churchill's words ' never was so much owed.......'

Alice

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