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This area seems…
…so serene.
So calm.
So peaceful.
And yet these Bullecourt fields were
the scene of ugly battles during
World War I
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Word of the Day Challenge: Ugly
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My own Remembrance Day post
along with some Canadian Memories for you Patrick.
Although I must confess they are
memorialising a New Foundland Regiment.
and not a BC regiment.
As we walked the trenches my thoughts were that there
was not enough cover and I would be wanting to
dig down another foot or so if someone was shooting at me.
If anyone recognises this young lady
and she would like a full copy of the photo I will oblige.
I don’t like posting photos
if have not asked the subject.
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Remembrance Day 2018
Before visiting the Western Front Battlefields in June 2017,
I had heard that Flanders poppies grew like weeds
on the Somme battlefields.
While this photo was taken in a cemetery,
the second image was a typical farm sight.
The photo below however, was not
And was an unexpected sight…
On this day,
the eleventh day
of the eleventh month
at the eleventh hour
World War I ended
in 1918.
Today is Remembrance Day
“We will remember them.”
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November 2018 WitsEnd Inspirations: Unexpected
Remembrance-Day-2018
Remembrance Day 2018
Before visiting the Western Front Battlefields in June 2017,
I had heard that Flanders poppies grew like weeds
on the Somme battlefields.
While this photo was taken in a cemetery,
the second image was a typical farm sight.
The photo below however, was not
And was an unexpected sight…
On this day,
the eleventh day
of the eleventh month
at the eleventh hour
World War I ended
in 1918.
Today is Remembrance Day
“We will remember them.”
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November 2018 WitsEnd Inspirations: Unexpected
SUNDAY-STILLS-PC-Time
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Time stood still for Sunday.
Interior of a cuckoo clock.
Although I haven’t done it often, apparently
‘meeting under the clocks at Flinders Street Station‘
was a common place to meet someone
particularly during earlier part of the twentieth century.
Analogue clocks grew old and those in power
decided to replace them with digital clock faces.
The Victorian public did not approve and now
the clocks have a digital ‘motor’ with and analoge face.
And we can still meet under the clocks.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTOS: Time
Daily Prompt-Ceremony
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On August 5, 1914, my Grandfather was part of a gun crew
which fired the first allied shot of what was
to become known as The Great War.
At the time he was stationed at Point Nepean which
is situated on the eastern side of the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.
The cannon on the right was the one used for the task.
The barrel on the left was used to fire the first shot
of World War II.
One hundred years later, August 5, 2014,
on bright sunny day in winter
a ceremony was conducted to commemorate that event.
All the ceremony the military could muster
was included to mark the occasion.
We had mixed messages about who could lay the wreath,
so as my Grandfather did we took things into our own hands
and I and my two Aunties, Dad’s sisters,
to lay our wreath.
My Auntie, on the right, has since passed.
Just before 1245 a freighter came into view as it did in 1914.
Then at precisely 1245 a ceremonial shot
was fired from Point Nepean,
to mark the centenary of firing of the
First Shot of World War I.
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Daily Prompt: Ceremony
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Weekly Photo Challenge-Lines
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My contribution for this week’s challenge…
Lines
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With yesterday’s ANZAC Day commemorations
still fresh in our memories I have continued
the ANZAC theme today with a brief visit to
Tyne Cot Military Cemetery
in Belgium.
Some 34,000 names of soldiers who perished
and have never been found, line to wall of
Tyne Cot Cemetery.
These 34,000 are names which could not
fit on Menin Gate
The steps also make good lines this week.
Apart from names on the wall there are also…
the graves of 11,900…
of British Empire, as it was then known,
service personnel who perished
during the Great War.
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Today, ANZAC Day 2018 the
Prime Minister of Australia… 
Mr. Malcolm Turnbull…
is visiting the co-located
Australian National Memorial
and the
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
located just outside of Villers-Brettonneux
on The Somme Battlefields of France,
to open the Sir John Monash Centre.
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The Sir John Monash Centre was…
under construction when
I visited early in June, 2017…
and is situated behind the Central Tower…
from which the views are stunning.
It was extremely difficult to imagine
all the lives lost…
and bloodshed in
this idyllic farming land.
There are wing walls flanking the central tower…
upon which are engraved the names of
10,732 Australian casualties who died in France…
and who have no known grave.
Used as an observation post by
the French in World War II…
the Memorial was extensively damaged by
German aircraft and ground fire.
During the repair process it was decided to
retain some of the scarring.
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Lest We Forget
