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"Would some kind hand in a foreign land, place a flower on my son's grave.
My friend Paul does so ..

Thanks Tom, that's very interesting, Got to last better than laminating paper

Thats a good idea Tom, I'll keep that in mind for the future.

Years of Remembrance.

The original cross placed in the Nab on July 1st. 1916. It "disappeared" , but the thoughts remain, and a new cross took its place

What do you do in cold winter weather, looking back, a cold day at Pheasant Wood.

Sorry to read that Lucy, best wishes for the future.

A kingdshilling and a Lincoln cap badge amongst the possessions of my great uncle in my care, I like to think this was his first kings shilling the first of many

Thanks for that, I know last year there were signs of work down the track, great to know somebody thought enough to place back

Happy anniversary Lucy , here's to many more !

Yes it does, that seems odd, where abouts is it down the pathway? Thanks

3 Crosses of 3 places that mean so much to me on my Somme visits,

At the going down of the sun,,,,,, to the Lads

Hi Tom, does he still have a "grave" in Authuille ? Interesting what you say regular burials there its the place I spend most evening when on the Somme.

Can't say I have ever noticed that many rabbits In the area, deer yes, but not bunnies

Like to walk from Blighty along the edge of the woods then through a great place to stop and reflect on the 1st. then to the back of Lonsdale, and across the Leipzig...

I will say hello when in Blighty Valley this summer

One amongst the thousands, pondering at the scale of all that they gave.

The going down of the sun on a Winter’s day at Tyne Cott. Cemetery.

@ian-pegg.bsky.social interesting choice of subject Chaplin in WW2 can I ask why you chose it ?

Of the many treasures in the case the one that got me the most was a simple diary, starting in Dublin, via a swim in the River Somme to standing by at Ramos farm, it lists 112 location, 111 visited, the last " on Anglu" I cannot find, before at Manacourt, after sunken Road Heudecourt.

Hi Tom, yes it is, his parents, my great grandparents received notification of his death middle of November....

Thank you, Percy was a pre-war Special Reserve, landed with 2nd Lincolns in Oct. 14, wounded then Gallipoli with the 6th. Lincoln, 18 months in hospital, to Ireland, then back to France to join 7th. Lincols April 1918, KIA 20th Oct.

Opening the case revealed things I knew nothing about, the medals I eventually had framed, and the research started until the point I had to go visit his grave. A family holiday to France, a drive to his grave at Inchy, a call at Thiepval, cemeteries, and a crater, and life changed

It' some 40 years this case came into my possession following the death of my grandfather, all I knew about the man in the picture was "he was my brother Percy, killed in the Great War"

It never crossed my mind how this case would change my life.

What its all about really, became *lost* in a another place X and need to remind what matters !