NFR July 1st

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...1916.

The call to duty and sacrifice never to be forgotten.  :medal:

[LBNo11]

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[Alan]

Top post, Sir. People that were called up, weather they liked it or not...

[alfie]

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[LBNo11]

Top post, Sir. People that were called up, weather they liked it or not...

...not forgetting that so many volunteered, and the sad collectives of the 'PALS' regiments where complete factories or department or just people from the same area who joined up together as one collective of friends or colleagues, they also tragically died together and utterly devastated their surviving communities.

Lest we Forget...

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Such was the carnage of this terrible event that there is scarcely a family in this country (and the old commonwealth) that does not have at least one ancestor who suffered on the Somme between July and November 1916.
My grandfather had souvenirs of Delville emerging from his body until the day he died 50 years later.

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[leonffc]

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[Holders]

So true. My grandfather was also on the Somme and somehow survived but would never talk about it, either to my dad or me. It must have been horrific.

Not sure if this link will work but if it does, please listen to The Green Fields of France, for those who do not know it:

http://www.martindardis.com/id169.html