Remembrance Day - November 11

[lynneviews]

I shall be remembering Arthur Yates died aged only tweny-one, in the Somme, France. Son of Arthur Du Pasteur Yates and of Clare Yates. London.
They never found his body and is only remembered on Pier and Face 9 C and 13 C. at THIEPVAL.
Just one of 17 million to give their lives in just a few short years.
The tradgedy of war.

[Quiller]

I will be remembering my nephew Martin aged 20 yrs.

May be gone but never forgotten.

Quiller

[Polldoll]

Oh My ....Doesn't that strike home .. What a handsome young man .Every mother's son. My sincere condolences to you and your family Quiller . I shall take his name with me for our Remembrance Service. Thank You for posting that and reminding us of the sacrifices still being made by Service men and women everywhere .

[Mogsmum]

Private Percy Ronald DUNMALL (179594) Driver: "A" Bty. 307th Bde. Royal Field Artillery killed 10.5.1918 the day after his 19th birthday.
 
Gunner Herbert J. MALCHER (140036) ‘B’ Bty 15th Bde., Royal Horse Artillery killed 9.10.1917 aged 23
his brother
Lance Corporal Frederick Charles MALCHER (11205) Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry killed 30.9.1915 aged 32

Private 18486 Frederick Herbert PLANT 2nd Bn Suffolk Regiment killed 9.4.1917 aged 23
his brother
Able Seaman J/11839 Percy Peter John PLANT who died aged 23 on 15.8.1918 when his ship HMS Scott was torpedoed.

The grandad I never knew, Pte GS/6738  Edward Sidney Dunmall Royal West Kent Regiment who finally succumbed to his wounds in 1935 when my Dad was just 3.

and

my beloved Grandad  Pte. G23600  E.L. French, 10th Btn East Kent Regiment who suffered 3 gunshot wounds and who, as the result of a gas attack, spent the remainder of his life with one lung, one kidney and ulcerated legs - a lovely, gentle, quiet man whom I adored.

[craizi daizi]

IN REMEMBERENCE

GEORGE LONSDALE  TAYLOR,
Australian Flying Corps Unit Text: 2nd Sqdn.
Age: 18

Lionel Herbert JOHNSON
Australian Infantry
A.I.F. 2/2 Pnr. Bn
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

MUNRO
 Simon F
Service Number 968
Date Death 27/09/1915
Decoration
Place of birth Beauly Inverness-shire
Other 5th Bn.
SNWM roll THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank A/SM

and more

R I P

Daizi

[Tephra]

And in Flanders Fields,
the poppies blow
Between the crosses,
row on row
That mark our place;
and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the
guns below

                 Lt-Colonel John McCrae

[kiwihalfpint]

Remembering my mothers uncle :

Alexander Campbell aged 24 died 3 November 1917 HMS Drifter "Deliverer"

and her brother - namesake of the above:

Alexander Campbell Phimister aged 24 died 3 November 1940 HMS Patroclus

Both torpedoed. 
Same name, same age, same date of death but 23 years apart.

[reverie]

In Remembrance:

Mary Hamilton Raynor

Aged 32

Died 18th July 1945 as result of accident at munitions factory in Glasgow

[rancegal]

No relation to me, but I knew part of his story and learned the rest with the help of Rootschatters:

     W/O Arnold Brown, RAFVR., 107 Sqdn
     Shot down and taken prisoner 1940
     
      Shot and fatally wounded by the RAF whilst being marched westwards in the last few months of WW2 (they were mistaken for Germans)
      Died 20/04/1945. Buried in Berlin War Cemetery
       
                         IN MEMORIAM