Genealogy Chat

Corporal Edward Sheppard Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 14 July 1916 aged 34 my grandad-never met my dad who was born 30 June 1916 mariexx

In memory of my great grandfather Charles Standish died in France on the Sept. 16, 1916 leaving a wife and two little girls one of them my grandmother. Also my father's cousin Willie Crowther who died March 13, 1917 aged only 19 leaving behind grieving parents, aunties and cousins. He died 10 years before my father was born but was still talked about with sadness. God bless them and all the fallen. Susan

Lest we forget them who have died since, our dear and sweet friend Kenny and many of our friends who have died in Bosnia Ireland and the Faulklands also the Gulf and Iraq war and keep my nephew safe in Afghanistan. God Bless them all Helen

Frederick Notzke - Private London Regiment - killed in action on the Somme 16/9/1916 aged 20. Wilfred Coombes - Private Gloucestershire Regiment - killed in action at Passchendale 21/10/1917 aged 20. Ronald Jerrard - Musician Royal Marines Band, lost with HMS Barham 25/11/1941 aged 29. Robert Dashwood - Ordinary Seaman Royal Navy, lost with HMS Esk 1/9/1940 aged 20. Always remembered xxx

Pte Tom Jackson aged 18, 10th Bn Loyal North Lancs Regiment died 1st July, 1916 - Somme - buried in France Pte John Swarbrick aged 20, Machine Gun Corps died 2nd April, 1918 - buried in France Pte John Edward Forshaw, aged 20, 2/4th Bn Loyal North Lancs Regiment died 16th May, 1918 - buried in France Pte Thomas Rigby, aged 28, 1/4th Bn Loyal North Lancs Regiment died 15th June, 1918 - no known grave RN Telegraphist John James Harrison, aged 22 died 6th June, 1944 - D-Day - buried in France Pte Frederick Herbert Swift, aged 21 died tragically in 1942 in a training accident buried Preston, Lancs. Pte Nicholas Rushton, aged 22, Manchester Regiment died 1942 - buried in Singapore All so far from home - we will remember them all.

For ALL the men who died, particularly those in WW1, leaving a generation of women to unfulfilled spinsterhood. Where have all the young men gone, Gone to graveyards everyone When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Lest we forget. OC

For Frank Cox... died 1917 in France For all the Canadian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan

Patrick Collins (brother of Thomas, our > grandfather) died in Ypres, Belgium? I've got a copy of a leaflet published by Deorwenta Publcations, Blackhill, Co > Durham (St. Mary's War Memorial) and it reads as follows: > '5332 Patrick Collins DCM Age 27: P Collins, one of twelve children, was a > son of Thomas Collins, originally from Co. Monaghan, Ireland and Mary Anne Collins, neé Duffy, from Berwick on Tweed, whose family came from County Armagh, Ireland. Patrick was born on 15 July 1889 and the family lived at 29 Waltons Row, Blackhill, Co Durham. He enlisted at Newcastle on Tyne, to join the 6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers in Co Cork, Ireland, attached to the British Expeditionary Force. On Friday 9 March 1917, he died of wounds and is buried at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetry, Heuvellland, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave reference: M81. After his death, his mother was presented with the DCM at the Olympia Cinema, Blackhill, when his courageous advance into no-man's-land was commemorated on stage. and also: James Erly is also buried in Ypres: James Erly, Private 14054, 2nd Bn.,Northumberland Fusiliers who died on Monday, 24th May 1916, age 33, son of Margaret Erly, of 5, Hilda St, Station Rd., Ossett, Yorkshire and the late James Erly. Always remembered!! Betty

In remembrance of my great uncles Horace Hurt Private, Machine Gun Corps 9th Battalion. Died 9 Feb 1918 aged 19. William Dunn 6th Light Armoured Motor Battalion Died 31 July 1920 aged 23 in Iraq. They were in the Otterman Empire after the war. Thinking of all the people who lost their lives as a result of all the wars. Lin

My Godfather Lieutenant Marcel Georges Florent Fox, (Special Operations Executive) at Flossenburg Camp on 29th March 1945. Legion D'Honneur, Croix de Guerre avec Palme. Bernadette

Written by Philip Harod Clucas, Flight Sergeant 1520775, RAF 50 Squadron 69 Clive St, Burnley. Killed in action aged 22 on 13.8.44. Buried at Bas-Oha Communal Cemetery, Belgium. If I should never see the moon again rising red-gold across the harvest fields, or feel the stinging of the soft April rain when the brown earth her hidden treasure yields, If I should never taste the salt sea spray as the ship beats her way 'gainst the breeze, or smell the dog rose or the new mown hay or moss or primrose beneath the trees, If I should never hear the thrushes wake long before the sunrise in the glimmering dawn, or watch the huge Atlantic rollers break against gray rugged cliffs in baffled scorn, If I have said goodbye to stream and wood to the wide ocean and the green clad hill I know He who made the world so good has somewhere made a heaven better still. Thus I bear witness with my latest breath Knowing the love of God, I fear not death. Wish I had that simple faith...this was read at my father's funeral in 1971 in London. Lived up North a long time and then in 2005 saw this displayed at a Burnley Church. Sent it to the Imperial War Museum, London for their collection. Liz

510689 Frederick Maynard Canadian Army Services Corps 1st Div Unit of Supply, Age 28 Died 17/12/1917 buried at les Baraques Military Cemetrey Sangatte France de Calais.

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Hi Carole Thanks for then nudge Cheryl

I'd like to add my gt-grandfather, Alfred Hayden, who was killed in action on the second day of the Battle of the Somme, 02 July 1916 age 36.

see www.cwgc.org

There Lie Forgotten Men They lie there in their thousands The last rays of sunlight Catching the white of the gravestones Lending a poignancy to the moment Numbering in their thousands they lay Deserving remembrance And yet the scarred green fields are empty Nothing remains here The processions of people vanished with the years Their sacrifice all but forgotten She stands there alone At the edge of the silent place And she is shocked New wars brew and these forgotten men Will play no part in them The dead silence warn no ears but hers In great halls in moments of great decision What they fought for is forsaken And by days end new gravestones Appear on the blood red ground She finds what she seeks 'Sgt John Malley Age 27' His life brutally ended And she stands by his grave But he can give no answers And she weeps for him For the empty hole he left behind And for the new emptiness Soon to join the black chasm And her tears join the flood Rebecca Sullivan

When 13-year-old Rebecca Sullivan penned a war poem for a homework assignment she thought only her teacher would see it. But the piece entitled There Lie Forgotten Men is now to be heard by thousands when she reads it out at the country's biggest Armistice Day service. Rebecca Sullivan learned about Remembrance Day at school Her teacher was so moved by the poem - which describes a world in which war dead are all but forgotten - she sent it to the Royal British Legion. Officials decided to include it in a service at Trafalgar Square after deciding that it stood out from the hundreds of poems the Legion receives each year. Rebecca wrote her piece after being moved by the poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon which she read as part of a school project. 'The way they wrote about war and the needless death of soldiers really moved me,' the pupil at Highlands School, in Enfield, north London, said. 'It was the feeling that nothing would happen for these soldiers after they died, they would get no proper burial or funeral and would be remembered only by their loved ones. I wanted to express how important it is that the people who have died in wars are remembered 'I really liked Wilfred Owen's Anthem for a Doomed Youth. It really brought out some powerful feelings. 'I wanted to do the same thing with my poem. I wanted to express how important it is that the people who have died in wars are remembered.'

Frank Buckland Wheeler, my Grandfather, who fought in W W 1, survived with injuries and who's life was shattered. George Charnock who fought in W W 1 and died of injuries in 1919, aged 21yrs. John ( Jack ) Marsh aged 20 yrs, Pilot in W W 2, his plane was shot down, his body washed up on the coast of Scotland. Remembering all Relatives and Friends that fought in both World Wars and Campaigns Always Remembered. Ellen.

Remembering my uncle who served in the Merchant Navy during WW2. Eric Rudling aged 21, who died 26/1/1942 when the S.S. Traveller, carrying ammunition supplies, was torpedoed in the Atlantic.