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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flander's fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, tho poppies grow
In Flander's fields.
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." ~Alexander Hamilton
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In a small Commonwealth War Graveyard, those that were lost in the two great wars are honoured where they had fallen.
Here in France they are remembered in Terlincthun Cemetery. A beautifully looked after place of rest about 2 miles from Boulogne-sur-Mer.
A Remembrance Day Tribute....
Lest we forget / Je me souviens
Bailey Puggins pays tribute to the Canadian men and women who have served our country and fought for freedom around the world. A special thank you to the Royal Canadian Legion Eastview Branch 462 for the lovely poppy arrangement.
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These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth.
The years had given them kindness. Dawn was theirs,
And sunset, and the colours of the earth.
These had seen movement, and heard music; known
Slumber and waking; loved; gone proudly friended;
Felt the quick stir of wonder; sat alone;
Touched flowers and furs and cheeks. All this is ended.
Rupert Brooke
William Billy Ness 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion C Company, visiting Ranville Cemetery to visit the grave of this best friend "Stoney" some 75 years later.
It is with a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat I have to report that Billy sadly passed away on the 12th of May 2021.
Billy was there as part of the 75th Anniversary as he had been many times before on previous anniversaries, but this one was sadly to be his last.
I look at these pictures and I am filled with both sadness and joy.
I am sad I will not get to meet Billy again but I have joy in knowing he is now with his best mate Stoney having a good old knees up in an eternal life.
A hero in every sense of the word RIP and Lest We Forget
The WW1 Memorial Bench at Blaen Bran Community Woodland, with autumn mist lingering on Mynydd Twyn-glas.
The above words are taken from the 4th stanza of the poem "To the Fallen" by Lawrence Binyon. They are commonly referred to as "The Ode" and are traditionally read out at both ANZAC and Remembrance Day services
ANZAC day sunrise today at Torquay ... the most spectacular sunrise I've ever witnessed I think. This is essentially SOOC.
For remembrance day .................
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flander's fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, tho poppies grow
In Flander's fields.
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
The red poppy on Anzac Day, is a symbol of war remembrance and of Armistice on November 11, 1918.
According to the Australian War Memorial, the red poppy or Flanders poppy, was among the first plants to spring up in the battlefields of northern France and Belgium after the war.
Anzac Day 25/04/2017
The theme for Smile on Saturday is "Poppies".
This poppy was blooming in a friend's garden last week.
"Lest We Forget"
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On Canada Remembrance Day
Lest we forget
I was inspired by a short and powerful poem “Soldati” written in the First World War by an Italian poet Ungaretti (1888 – 1970)
Soldati
Si sta come
d’autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie
Translation into English
Soldiers
We’re like
The leaves
of the trees
in autumn
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“Lest we forget” – three very simple, yet also very powerful words. First used in an 1897 poem written by Rudyard Kipling called “Recessional”, to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, they caution us to be careful not to forget.
As we take a moment this Armistice Day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our peace, prosperity and stability, and those who fight today to protect us still, let us also hope that conflicts around the world will come to a swift conclusion, not least of all in Ukraine and in Gaza. One human hand it very powerful. It can be raised in anger and inflict pain, or it can be raised in peace and bring comfort and joy. Lest we forget.
Armistice Day or Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. It falls on the 11th of November every year. Remembrance Day is marked at eleven o’clock (the time that the armistice was declared) with a minute’s silence to honour the fallen. Following a tradition inaugurated by King George V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries.
Ken "smudger" Smith of the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry paying his respects to his best friend who he lost in the Battle for Normandy.
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The above link takes you too a Facebook post dedicated to the bravery of a very unassuming man.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
Armistice Day was declared on 11 November 1918 and Big Ben sounded on the hour at 11am – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. This weekend's two-minute silence will commence at precisely that time, marking exactly 100 years to the second the First World War came to an end.
"May every Sunrise hold more Promise and every Sunset hold more Peace" ~ Anon.
“Lest we forget” – three very simple, yet also very powerful words. First used in an 1897 poem written by Rudyard Kipling called “Recessional”, to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, they caution us to be careful not to forget.
As we take a moment this Armistice Day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our peace, prosperity and stability, and those who fight today to protect us still, let us also hope that conflicts around the world will come to a swift conclusion.
Armistice Day or Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. It falls on the 11th of November every year. Remembrance Day is marked at eleven o’clock (the time that the armistice was declared) with a minute’s silence to honour the fallen. Following a tradition inaugurated by King George V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries.
A Poppy I photographed back on Midsummer's Day, uploaded today to commemorate Armistice Day HBW!
Sharing one of my favourite war poems - High Flight (an Airman's Ecstasy) allpoetry.com/High-Flight-(an-Airman's-Ecstasy)
This link gives information on the young America Spitfire pilot who wrote this famous poem. He died in 1941 aged just 19 years allpoetry.com/John-Gillespie-Magee-Jr
Photo 54/100 for the 100 Flowers 2020 group.
What do you see when you look at this picture, do you know what history this picture holds? Are you bothered what history it holds? Is is just a picture or does it evoke different feelings when you look at it.
Are you looking at the image from an artistic point of view or an historical one, have you captured a similar image and thought should I take that picture, will I upset people if I take it.
I would love you to comment on what you feel when you see this image. I won't right now put what I feel because I do not want to sway your comment in anyway.
But please look at this picture closely and comment using one word what you feel when you have viewed the image.
Thank You!
O meu azulejo de papel por Jan Theuninck
Projeto para azulejos baseado na pintura Zyklon B de Jan Theuninck, 2013
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Boo Lefou pays tribute to the Canadian men and women who have served our country and fought for freedom around the world.
Lest we forget / Je me souviens
I would like to thank all of you that have taken the time to view and comment on my photos, it is very much appreciated.
Tina & the Puglet xo
for our ANZACS
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Armistice Day , on November 11, commemorates the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany at 11am on November 11, 1918 - Take Two Minutes of Silence to remember those killed in the two World Wars and the 12,000 British servicemen killed or injured since 1945.
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As you walk the rolling green hills of the Somme in northern France, you remember, with reverence, that here in the silence beneath the soil of the Western Front, lie the unknown graves of 11,000 Australian men. Forever young, and forever at peace.
Anything goes 2021 - Composite
This is a composite of three images. The angel is from The Rock cemetery in Nottingham. The poppies (added as a texture layer) are from photo I took in 2014, at the Tower of London for the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war (image in comments). The headstone in the bottom left is in Wilford Hill cemetery in West Bridgford. It's a Commonwealth grave marker to commemorate our war dead.
I hope this is a fitting tribute for brave men and women everywhere who lost their lives while trying to save their country so we might have our freedom.
Lest We forget.
HSS
Poignant poppies outside Cromer church. The purple poppies commemorate animals that were killed in the world wars. This memorial to the fallen is particularly fitting as the North Norfolk coast between Sheringham and Mundesley is often referred to as Poppyland after a book of the same name by the poet Clement Scott.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) - No1 Group - RAF Coningsby - Battle of Britain Air Show - Duxford - Cambridgeshire.
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war
An experience I will never forget
Today is Remembrance Day.
We pause for a minute at 1100 hours on 11/11 each year to remember. The time and date were chosen to commemorate the end of World War l and was originally known as Armistice Day and renamed Remembrance Day after World War ll.
The Eternal Flame at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance.
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Cropped close up of a wild poppy growing in the North of England in the United Kingdom.
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One of the most significant World War I memorials in Flanders, the Menin Gate in Ypres commemorates the names of more than 54,000 officers and men of the Commonwealth forces whose graves are not known. (That's almost 20,000 more than the total population of Ypres today - and which counted only 18,000 in 1914).
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers passed through the Menin Gate on their way to the battlefield. The memorial was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick. It was unveiled by the British Field Marshal Herbert Plumer on 24 July 1927.
Each night at 8 pm buglers of the Last Post Association sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.
It's a sobering thought that the names on the Menin Gate walls represent people who went missing in action - killed, mutilated, obliterated - and whose remains might still be out there, somewhere on the old battlefield. But nobody knows where they are. Remains are still being found, even a hundred years later, but for many an identification is no longer possible.
In this age where narratives and storytelling matter so much, for these men, many still extremely young, there is no story to tell, except that they were caught up in a brutal war and then vanished.
For those who were left behind - mothers, wives and relatives - it was vital to have a place where they could, and still can, mourn their lost ones.
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