In Flanders Fields…

Missed tonights post , will be in the post first thing tomorrow .

You bet!

Address mailed 🙂

Moggy

Book for Moggy

He is not forgotten.

Moggy [/B][/QUOTE]

Moggy , after reading your post I had a rummage around , I buy a fair amount of books and every once in a while I turn up some interesting items . Being a tight-fisted Scotsman I hate things going to waste – I have a copy of “The Great War Illustrated ” Volume IIV The Autumn Campaign 1st July ” ( sic ) It was published in September 1916 and is obviously meant to boost public morale – it is in good condition , has a few coloured inserts and has a good map included .
I always try and find good homes to stuff I don’t need and I have posted out a few books to the Forum nutters . I would like you to have this tome . If you want it just mail me an address at. [email]ageorge@haemonetics.com[/email] and I’ll send it out ASAP

Obviously the book is FOC and my employer pays the Fed-Ex man , if you don’t want it then the usual scoundrels can play “fast finger first”.

Very nice tribute to those unknowns who gave their life for us.
My grand-grand father was wonded au “chemin des dames”.
This war remains a terrible and stupid tragedy. If you have the opportunity to visit the sites in north of France were all those cimeteries are located , just take a minute to visit them , it’s very impressive.

Cheers to all of them.

Hi Moggy,

Henry is buried in Chester Farm Cemetery West-Vlaanderen a short distance from Ypres.

hhttp://www.cwgc.org/cwginternet/certificate.aspx?casualty=44587

Re the Thiepval memorial. I have visited it on several occasions and have always been deeply moved. Did you know that it was built with imported Accrington brick and has the names of over 73.000 missing inscribed on the panels.

Below is the link, if it works, to your Uncle’s certificate of rememberence.

rehttp://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/certificate.aspx?casualty=749130

Best wishes
SE5AFAN

Originally posted by SE5AFAN
Thanks for posting that picture of your uncle Moggy, how interesting that he was one of the Liverpool Pals, you must be proud. Is he by any chance commemorated on the Thiepval memorial?

We will remember.

Oh yes.

I’ll never forget the first time I visited the memorial looking for his name.

From the parking area you can see this imposing, if somewhat ugly, structure. It seems to be made up of contrasting red and buff materials. Then as you get closer awareness suddenly dawns that the many, huge, buff coloured areas are actually the commemorative panels crammed full of thousand upon thousand of tightly packed names in letters that can be no more than about an inch high.

Each has his own individual story, just like my Uncle Frank and your Great Uncle Henry.

Truly humbling.

Moggy

Is Henry on Theipval too, or do you have the comfort of a headstone?

Thanks for posting that picture of your uncle Moggy, how interesting that he was one of the Liverpool Pals, you must be proud. Is he by any chance commemorated on the Thiepval memorial?

The slaughter of the First World War was on such a large scale that statictics reveal that every family in the UK was affected by the loss of someone.
My Great Uncle Henry Crockett of the East Surrey Regt was killed at Hill 60 on the Ypres Salient Belgium on 12-04-15.

We will remember.

good article…

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BELGIUM_WWI_REMAINS?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

I keep dropping money in pots. I’m wearing double poppies (ie two sets of petals on the stalk) for obvious reasons, and have one on my work shirt, one on my jacket.

I feel very angry donating, though. I have a valid reason which I am happy to discuss off-board. It stems from something I once saw – but I still give (and it’s the only charity I do give to now) and I hope that my donation is not wasted, that it goes to the right place.

I bought one poppy and donate money to every other seller I see , it’s getting costly as both my parents have collecting tins in their shops – I have to donate everytime I drop by . I certainly don’t mind though.

I lost my first and had to buy another. I also brought them for my wife and daughter and most of my mates. Blimey I’ll just keep buying them if I have to.

I have about half a dozen at the moment.

If I leave it on a jacket at home, there is no way I can walk past an old guy with medals freezing his bum off outside Tesco without buying another 🙂

Moggy

Originally posted by Phil Foster
Not enough people wearing poppies at the moment. You can almost guarantee that most of those who are are ex-services.

I bought mine at the start of the month. Amazingly it’s still on my jacket (hasn’t fallen out once)

Must admit, on the bus from Glasgow on Saturday night, I only saw ONE other person wearing one. 🙁

Not enough people wearing poppies at the moment. You can almost guarantee that most of those who are are ex-services. Makes me sadder than mad.:confused: I don’t get it. Do they only remember when the country is about to be invaded? What makes people think that the services should be forgotten or villified just because they are doing a job most are not prepared to do?

Cool photo Moggy.

I’ve been thinking a lot today about the research we did on the crew who crashed in a Wellington at Birmingham. The three who were killed were P/O Moxey, Sgt. Crabtree and LAC Smith. I wasn’t able to visit Sgt Crabtree’s grave today but will do so this week. A lot of us on the forum put a lot of effort into that thread. Perhaps more of us remember and care than we give ourselves credit for?

The service from the Cenotaph showed a surprising number of younger people taking part and that is encouraging. The Cenotaph in my home town is used as a public urinal on Friday and Saturday nights. Pity they can’t electrify it.

Regards,

kev35

Kat what game are we playing I am not happy 😉 😉 you have fun but don’t take **** ?:o 😮 Anna

For her brother and his companion, from a sister who now has a place to remember.

Thank you Kat, a wonderful post to pay tribute to so many. It only takes a few moments thought to realise what a lucky man I am.

Originally posted by Flood
I rather think to all who left early on the whim of a general, whether in the air, at sea, or on the ground. And those who also served, in the forces or as a civilian. And those who suffered, whether directly or indirectly.
Now, if only poppy sellers weren’t told to move along from the front of shops or shifted out of cold heartless shopping centres…

Flood.

Also, very true.

This is one subject where I agree wholeheartedly.