Remeberance Day 2021 (1 Viewer)

[Obee]

Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the signing on The Armistice which concluder The Great War.

At memorials around this country people gather to remember the fallen, like my uncle Jack O'Brien



an 18 year old who still lies in France.



Lest We Forget

 

[BHogan]

John,

What a smart looking chap. 9 August 1918 - did he fall in the Battle of Amiens?

As a gunner, one thing I've always appreciated about Remembrance Day is that the gun salutes are started by our fellow gunners in New Zealand and Australia, continued in Britain, and completed in Canada. Gunners serving "together" just like they did in the two world wars.

Lest we forget.

Brendan

 

[Obee]

John,

What a smart looking chap. 9 August 1918 - did he fall in the Battle of Amiens?

Lest we forget.

Brendan

Yes, Jack was a private in the 48th Battalion AIF who were in that last big push on the Somme. He was wounded east of Villers Bretonneux by shrapnel when they stopped and rested for a late lunch in some captured trenches. He subsequently died of his wounds the following day in the field hospital near Probart.

He now lies in the Adelaide British Cemetery, Plot 3 Row I Grave 15, just outside Villers Bretonneux. We visited there in 2008 while in France.

Another soldier who didn't come home, but lies in the soil of France.

John

 

[Louis Badolato]

I thank you for your service, and all of your relatives for their service. I lost my Uncle Joe, who died in the course of his 22nd mission in the B17 Rikki Tikki Tavi, bombing Berlin, on May 5, 1944. My grandfather, for whom I am named, served in the Great War, but, fortunately for me, survived to come back to the U.S. and raise a family (he had seven children, among whom my Uncle Leo served in WWII, and my Uncle Dominick, my father Joseph, and my Uncle Frank served during the Korean Conflict).

Rest assured that some of us will never forget.