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Who will you remember today
tucuxii Started conversation Aug 4, 2014
A hundred years ago today Britain and the Commonwealth entered the First World War plunging the world into darkness and despair.
Will you be turning off your lights and lighting a candle at 10 tonight?
Who will you remember?
Walter Wragg 10th Battalion Yorks and Lancs - wounded Fricourt Farm the Somme, buried alive February 1918.
Herbert Wragg - 12th Battalion Yorks and Lancs - the Sheffield Pals - first wave on the Somme aged 15 - shell shocked Ypres
Stanley Wragg - 12th Battalion Yorks and Lancs - the Sheffield Pals - first wave on the Somme aged 14 - gassed Ypres
George King - Hampshire Regiment - Western Front - signed up in spite of being medically discharged from Royal Navy
Who will you remember today
Bluebottle Posted Aug 4, 2014
Can't I remember the men of Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles instead, most of whom died at Gallipoli?
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Who will you remember today
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Aug 4, 2014
"Will you be turning off your lights and lighting a candle at 10 tonight?' [Tucuxii]
Only if the electricity goes off then. 
I'm a bigger fan of November 11, which commemorates the end of that war, disastrous though the reparation demands from Germany were. Heck, I'm a fan of most events that commemorate the ends of wars. But I refuse to commemorate the swine flu outbreak of 1919 
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Superfrenchie Posted Aug 4, 2014
I'll remember the people whose names are on the war memorial in my parents' village.
They're not British or Commonwealth but then, neither am I.
But mostly I'll remember the people who are on there without their names being written because when the monument was erected no-one remembered exactly who they were.
(That's an interesting story, actually. I should write a journal about it. Tonight).
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tucuxii Posted Aug 4, 2014
Of course Frances sacrifice was huge and I am sure people remembered France entry into the war yesterday.
You have reminded me of seeing a monument in in tiny hamlet in the Pyrenees (so far away from Flanders)there were ten houses in the village and eleven names on the monument.
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tucuxii Posted Aug 4, 2014
BB - of course you can, I was just remembering my great-uncles all of whom survived and all of whom suffered terribly for the rest of their lives.
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Superfrenchie Posted Aug 4, 2014
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