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By (user no longer on site) OP
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On July 1, 1916 at 7:30 A.M. the Allies launched the largest offensive of the war. What would soon be the bloodiest and most tragic single day in British Military history. July 1, 1916 the opening day of Somme, By 12:30 P.M. over 50,000 of Britain's soldiers were dead or wounded
LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Have visited the battlefields of Flanders (born and raised in Belgium) and the Somme a few times and it's always a sobering, somber, yet enlightening experience.
Lest we Forget. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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You have to remember that those gallant gentleman that fought during the first and second world war,were the ones who saved us from being under a Germany dictatorship
Gentlemen until my dying day I will always respect that you went out of your way to make sure that England will always remain a Democracy.Gentlemen I salute you,long may you remain in peoples mind. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
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My Grandfatther fought at the Somme he was an artillery man in the black watch .wounded in the arm he was invalided home to have pioneering ligament replacement surgery allowing him to continue to serve .he survived the war to end all wars married my grandmother and had three sons including my dad saddly my grandad died when I was aged eleven so I never got to talk with him about his experiences to my grandad John and all who served through all conflicts I salute you |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lucky enough to have experienced visiting the Somme.
Changed me as a person and taught me what true respect really is. "
This!!!
When you pick up a spent round from the floor and wonder what it's story is has it been a miss shot had it injured someone. Then you look up and realise your standing in a place where over a million brave lives were lost.
The only place more harrowing is if you visit auschwitz the concentration camp. That place truely is strange even the birds do not fly over it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. |
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