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A Need to Remember
At Remembrance we all tend to go to remember those who went before in conflict and in military service, who were killed and those who came home shattered in mind, body and spirit. How we remember these losses is a phenomenon that originated in the Boer War, as communities had settled, news was more accessible,…
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1915 – A Global War – From Mud and Blood to Sand and Cliffs
On the Western Front, the winter of 1914 had turned the fields of France and Flanders into a scarred landscape of shell holes and basic trenches. In Ypres, Marne and Aisne, the German advance had been stemmed. In 1915, on the Western Front, the bloodshed continued, with some towns becoming linked with British losses. The…
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A little quiet…
So I think you will all have realised that I have been neglecting this site. But it’s all been in the aid of a good cause. I have been working on a community history event, for November. I’m sure that this site will soon be getting new content again.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
HG Wells
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