World War 1

Langemark

The Pity of War by LoisJune 19, 2014June 19, 2014

Revisiting the soldier’s tale

Family Stories by LoisJune 15, 2014June 12, 2014

Family Stories by LoisJune 14, 2014February 2, 2019

I wrote yesterday about visiting the battlefields of World War One, and our wish to find the memorial to my husband’s relative, Horace Colgate. Here is a post I have previously published, showing the village where Horace, and my husband both lived as children, although some sixty years separated their boyhoods. Horace Colgate died nearly a […]

From Surrey to some foreign field

Family Stories by LoisJune 13, 2014September 10, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 4, 2013

Remembering

Everywhere you go in our little island there are war memorials and plaques and boards like the one above commemorating men and women who have given their lives for our country; whatever anyone thinks of war or the rights and wrongs of any situation, the people who were wounded or died suffered terribly, the tragedy […]