Remembrance Day......

Thursday, November 11. 2010

Remembrance Day......

South African War Memorial, Delville Wood. Thousands of young South African men were killed there in a few days in July 1916 to ensure another country held onto a handkerchief of land for a few days......two weeks later the British introduced tanks on the Somme. There is a lesson about fighting other people's wars here!

....was rather brought home to me this year by a visit to the Delville Wood memorial on the Somme, to the South African troops killed in World War One. I lost two grand-uncles in that war, and an uncle in the next one. Seeing their names - and the ages they died at - in the rolls brings it home very sharply.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Odds and Sods at 13:09 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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