Remembrance Sunday

[ElectroClaret]

With respect and thanks to all who gave their lives so we could live in freedom.

Remembering my late father who came ashore on Gold beach Normandy, on 6th June, 1944

Lest we forget.

[bfcjg]

On my way to cenotaph now.
Lest we forget.

[Folkestoneclaret]

For my uncle Flight Sergeant Raymond Ewart Woods, who I never knew, shot down in Burma and still missing...

We must remember them.

And a nod to Chris Gibson for his playing of the Last Post every year at Turf Moor

[burnmark]

For my late grandad, Ian Nicolson, part of Royal Navy in World War Two.

A greater man you would struggle to meet.

[Dark Cloud]

My grandfather was injured at The Somme and his twin brother was killed (just 19). My grandma's brother also. Always an exceptionally moving time at the Turf just prior to kick off, especially when you think how many of the people we're all personally thinking about would have come there in years gone by.

[jurek]

For all those who lives were cut short
so those who followed could have theirs extended.
Thank you.

[IanMcL]

The many who died at The Somme was sacrificed by Generals from times past, who were clueless when it came to both sides having guns. In particular, machine guns. Those generals should have been court marshalled. Britain's elite doesn't work like that, unfortunately.

Leat me forget the loss of young men - our family - everywhere.

It is at this time that I always give a thought to fans of Board Rovers, who's family members fought alongside those from Burnley, in the East Lancashire Regiment.

A minute of comradeship.

Wr will remember them.

[ecc]

For those who died in the trenches
For those who died in the fields
For those who died in the cities
For those who died in the air
For those who died at sea
For those who died on the beaches
For those who died in the desert
For those who liberated Belsen and other camps and witnessed hell on earth and never had a proper night's sleep afterwards

For those who died for US. May we never, ever forget what they did for us. They made the ultimate sacrifice.

Our duty is to ensure we tell our children and grandchildren what those men, and women, did.

We WILL remember them.

We forget at our peril.

[ecc]

Over 4000 men from Burnley were killed in the First World War, about 15 per cent of the male working-age population.

[ecc]

For my uncle Flight Sergeant Raymond Ewart Woods, who I never knew, shot down in Burma and still missing...

We must remember them.

And a nod to Chris Gibson for his playing of the Last Post every year at Turf Moor

Huge respect for the people who play the Last Post in front of thousands of people.

[Wo Didi]

For those who died in the trenches
For those who died in the fields
For those who died in the cities
For those who died in the air
For those who died at sea
For those who died on the beaches
For those who died in the desert
For those who liberated Belsen and other camps and witnessed hell on earth and never had a proper night's sleep afterwards

For those who died for US. May we never, ever forget what they did for us. They made the ultimate sacrifice.

Our duty is to ensure we tell our children and grandchildren what those men, and women, did.

We WILL remember them.

We forget at our peril.

Beautifully put.

We will NEVER forget them and the sacrifices they made.

[Juan Tanamera]

For my dad who passed away in 1994, shot and wounded in the arm by a sniper's bullet while serving in France. A couple of inches to the right may well have proved fatal.
There but for the grace of God.
All brave men and women.

[alf_resco]

For my Uncle Roland Hanson.
Volunteered in Accrington 1917 and for some inexplicable reason was assigned to the Royal Sussex Regiment.
During the 2nd Battle of Arras was sent out at midnight to cut the barbed wire in no-man's land. Shot twice in the right leg by a German sniper.
Bleeding and in great pain crawled into a shell hole. Remained there till stretcher-bearers came out the following evening. They took one look at him, decided be wasn't going to survive and left him. (!) When the stretcher-bearers came out on the second night, he was still alive and they took him in.
On his 21st birthday, his right leg was amputated and he was sent for rehab at Roehampton Military Hospital. Fitted with rudimentary prosthetic leg and returned to Accrington. Trained to be a dental techician and 10 yrs later met my Mother's sister. Married in 1933, died aged 78 in 1975.
And he considered himself (and was forever grateful) that he was one of the lucky ones who came home. One of the kindest, gentlest men I've ever known.

Lest we forget.

[giveusaB]

Remembrance Sunday in Burnley 2024 from Burnley film makers.

https://youtu.be/u0M8CyoPCuo?si=pAUZxrgY6Ws-7nat

[basil6345789]

God bless their souls

[bfcjg]

https://news.sky.com/story/minutes-sile ... y-13252484
And yet again the uneducated pig ignorant Celtic thugs totally miss the point.

[Folkestoneclaret]

The many who died at The Somme was sacrificed by Generals from times past, who were clueless when it came to both sides having guns. In particular, machine guns. Those generals should have been court marshalled. Britain's elite doesn't work like that, unfortunately.

Leat me forget the loss of young men - our family - everywhere.

It is at this time that I always give a thought to fans of Board Rovers, who's family members fought alongside those from Burnley, in the East Lancashire Regiment.

A minute of comradeship.

Wr will remember them.

There are 70,000 names on the Somme Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval. Many of them will have been members of the Pals Battalions At Flatiron Copse Cemetery (nearby the Welsh Division Memorial at Mametz Wood) there are three pairs of brothers who in each case were killed _on the same day_. At Chipilly there is a moving statue of a soldier comforting a wounded horse - nearly half million horses were killed on the Somme, and 8 million of them worldwide in the course of the Great War. There are so many reasons to remember, and care.

Nowadays Haig and Rawlinson would be branded war criminals. They were trapped by the military concepts of their time but no less culpable for that.

In future years we must remember those whose convictions have taken them to Ukraine to fight and die there.