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Rememberance Sunday
13/11/2005, 16:21:30
Tagged Under: WWI, Ypres, Somme, Boer, War.
Today is rememberance Sunday and although I personally have never served in the armed forces a lot of older generations in my family did. One in particular was Great Grandad who joined up when he was only 15 and fought in quite a few wars and some very famous battles. He fought in the 1899-1902 Boer Wars in South Africa, his regiment fought at The Siege of Kimberley, The Battle of Modder River (his regiment is constantly mentioned in The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle) and then again in WWI at both Ypres (second battle) and The Somme as he was still in the Reserves from the Boer War. WWI in my book should never ever be forgotten, in my view it was the war that should have ended all wars, sadly it didn't but I digress, it was a "cannon fodder" war where you were told to go over the top or you faced a bullet from your commanding officer. Many many people suffered from Shell shock and it was the first time gas shells had been used. So senseless was the tactics that it really was a storm the next trench, you were lucky if you got there. None of this precision bombing, no lazer guided bombs and no sat nav assisted shelling.
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