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,ContinueContinue reading “A Need to Remember”
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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. TheContinueContinue reading “1915 – A Global War – From Mud and Blood to Sand and Cliffs”
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