Remembrance Day - November 11

[chinakay]

Stanley Humblestone RAF and Clifford Walker RCAF were presumed lost on February 2, 1945, when their aircraft failed to return from a night raid on Tirstrup Aerodrome. They are remembered at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey.

My OH's great-uncle and his pilot....how brave, how handsome...and if not for their sacrifice it would be a much different world today.

Photo restored by Keith Bateman.

[patrexjax]

In memory of my two Uncles, Charles King, a member of the Tyneside Irish and Michael King a member of the Northumberland Fusiliers, both killed in World War I.  Remembered by the CGWC and by a plaque in St. Nicholas Cathedral in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  All of your family miss you.

[Helina]

In memory of

Herbert Edward Coole, age 31, married, died on the 12th August 1917 at Yres. He was a private in the Wiltshire Regiment.

Percy Coole Osborne age 19, died on the 25th October 1918 in the Middle East. He was  Private in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. Enlisted in 1914 age 15 years old.

Oliver Wride age 36, died on the 19th May 1915. He was a Leading Stoker in the Royal Navy.

"Oh for a Grimpse of the Grave where you`re laid only to lay a flower at your head. Mother"

[Rabbit B]

I would like to remember

My Gt Uncle Ernest Relf, gunner Royal Artillery died 1918 aged 29 remembered in the Cemetery in Reading

The officers and men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment who served with my Husband in Cyprus in the 50's who were killed by terrorists, many of them were national servicemen just doing their duty, especially Ian who had only been there three weeks when he was killed by a tree bomb

My friend's son 'Fred' of 2 Para killed in the Falklands War 1982

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

[Hackstaple]

In memory of my grandfather
Stanley Victor Murrill, 11th Bn., K.R.R.C.
who died aged 30 on 30th November 1917.

[oldtimer]

Remembering my aunt's husband, John Thomas Smith, who died on 8th February 1944, aged 24. A member of the 2nd battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, he is commemorated at the Cassino Memorial, Italy.

He never lived to see his son, born a couple of months after his death.

[toni*]

my Grandad who did not die in the war but has subsequently died but he came to the UK in 1948 as a diplaced person and never saw his family or home land again

also my Aunts mothers first husband who died very near the end of WW1
Albert Fairfield

 

[Windsor87]

Robert Strachan, my great great grandfather.
Killed on or around the 11th October 1917.
Went down with HMT Waltham just off the Isle of man



Left a pregnant widow, an 11 year old daughter and two grown up sons.

[forthefamily]

In Remembrance

Corporal Thomas Dooley
Died: July 22nd 1916
Age 21
Unit: 7th Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
Buried: Caterpillar Valley Cemetery Longueval

Private John William Blackshaw Jones
Died: March 23rd 1918
Age 19
Unit: 9th Bn. Welsh Regiment
Buried: Bancourt British Cemetery

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