Sitting in the park in late autumn. Vera Brittain. 1893 - 1970
Sculpture of Vera Brittain in the grounds of my local Museum and Art Gallery.
She is wearing her nurses uniform WW1 and reading a letter of sympathy from the King and Queen.
Vera Brittain wrote The Testament of Youth. 1933.
Just to the side of Vera are 4 flagstones with this inscription from the book....
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I sat in a tree shadowed walk called The Brampton and meditated on the war.
It was one of those shimmering autumn days when every leaf and flower seemed to scintillate with light and I found it " very hard to believe that men far away were being slain ruthlessly.......
It is impossible I concluded to find any satisfaction in the destruction of men.......
whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilisation ".
Vera Brittain.1914
From The Testament of Youth. 1933.
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Sitting in the park in late autumn. Vera Brittain. 1893 - 1970
Sculpture of Vera Brittain in the grounds of my local Museum and Art Gallery.
She is wearing her nurses uniform WW1 and reading a letter of sympathy from the King and Queen.
Vera Brittain wrote The Testament of Youth. 1933.
Just to the side of Vera are 4 flagstones with this inscription from the book....
www.flickr.com/photos/jeanniedee/15674199680/in/photostream/
I sat in a tree shadowed walk called The Brampton and meditated on the war.
It was one of those shimmering autumn days when every leaf and flower seemed to scintillate with light and I found it " very hard to believe that men far away were being slain ruthlessly.......
It is impossible I concluded to find any satisfaction in the destruction of men.......
whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilisation ".
Vera Brittain.1914
From The Testament of Youth. 1933.
See next image for history and info