Battle of the Somme

[flatyre]

Thank God their generation fought it not ours! The outcome would have been very different.

[Mark Bolam]

We'd have a lot more footage of it though....

[Steve Bullman]

We'd have a lot more footage of it though....

 

 

Yeah, and memes

[Pinkfoot]

Health and safety would stop a war like that. Too dangerous.

[born2trot]

Agree with all of the above...

I have ' in Flanders fields ' poem on my fridge door as a constant reminder and it will always be there.

[se7enthdevil]

i have a great great uncle who fell on the somme sept 17th (i think) this year and i wanted to go to where he is remembered.

 

i say remembered as he is one of the thousands that they never found a body for.

 

he is on the walls of the thiepval monument.

 

to him and the thousands on all who fell in the conflict i say this,

i salute thee for your service, i thank thee for your sacrifice, thank you all.

[csservices]

Have on of my great grandparents diaries, detailing his training etc, not sure if he was on the Somme, he was invalided out after getting gassed, I know we have a Christmas card sent from the trenches too, got to find time to sit down and look through it all one day.

[RichieR]

Have on of my great grandparents diaries, detailing his training etc, not sure if he was on the Somme, he was invalided out after getting gassed, I know we have a Christmas card sent from the trenches too, got to find time to sit down and look through it all one day.

 

I bet it will be hard not to look through it without having a tear or two.

[geoff]

Total respect to all those who fought, and died there.

[csservices]

I bet it will be hard not to look through it without having a tear or two.

 

 

Yep, didn't know my folks had got it til came across it when helping moving some stuff, got medals, and photos from ww2 from both granddad and one grand uncle there is a lot of history to go through.