No need to post details, we all know the history.

Just felt the need post and give thanks. Like, I guess a lot of forum pals, my first memory of learning anything about the Great War was through the poetry, particularly of Wilfred Owen. It had a profound impact then, and whilst my interests have developed and thus changed, the poetry has always been of importance to me.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now...'

Wilfred, Rest in Peace

Freedom is Not Free, We Will Remember.

I went to his Grave last month. Some pics attached. RIP Wilfred.

Also remembering Acting Lt Colonel James Neville Marshall who was killed at the Sambre Oise Canal the same day - Owen's 'Mad Major' and 'Major of the Ten Wounds'. Buried a few yards from Owen in Ors Communal

Also Arnold Waters RE who won the VC in the same place and on the same day and died in Sutton Coldfield c1981

Not forgotten. RIP

Michelle

Ian.

Thanks for the reminder.

May he rest in peace.

Geoff

Wilfred Owen, James Neville Marshall and Arnold Waters, may you all forever rest in peace.

Thank you to all of them.
Stephen

I once served with a direct descendant of Lt Waters grandson, himself a Colonel in the British Army and a true gentleman in the same mould.

So sad that so many brave men fell with the end so close.

RIP

PS 5th Battalion? 2nd, surely. CWGC in error?

Staffsyeoman,

No, I must be honest and admit it is my error entirely and not a typo or down to the CWGC website, it has been a while since I last read the biography and in my head I mixed up the order of 5th to 2nd Battalion transfers in 1918. (I should have double-checked in the biography last night but did not).

Thread title now changed.

Many thanks for spotting the error.

Remembering

Thank you for the freedom that I enjoy.

RIP

Scottie

... and thanks to the Teacher (whoever you are - I'm ashamed to say I don't remember your name) Who introduced us to Owen's words and brought them alive such that they have coloured my view of warfare since then on.


they who love the greater love

Lay down their life; they do not hate

The clock has just gone midnight on the 11th of the 11th and with tear in my eye i forward this well known verse
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends"
god bless them all .
MC

May they all Rest in Peace.