Remembering the Fallen

[HARAS]

For all those who gave there lives so that we can live in peace.
We will remember them.

[Davran]

In memory of my uncle, whom I never knew. He left behind a widow and young daughter, 2 months old.

Douglas Frederick Maurice Sexton 1/12/1919 - 1/11/1944

[Neil Wilson]

[Mike_E]

My Great Uncle's

Bernhard Niemeyer born 1910
Died and buried in Pomezia Italy 3 Oct 1943

and his brother

Rudolf Niemeyer born 1906
Listed as missing in Werchowzewo Ukraine 6 Oct 1943 - no known resting place.

[suzzie]

I would like to remember my gg uncle ..

Name: PARKER, George Henry
Regiment, Corps etc.: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion etc.: 2/5th Battalion.
Birthplace: Burnley, Lancs
Enlisted: Burnley
Rank: PRIVATE
Number: 240838
Date died: 09 October 1917
How died: Killed in action
Theatre of war: France & Flanders

also my Mother's first husband

Sgt Harvey Gordanier, M/226, 1 Radar Bty., Royal Canadian Artillary.
Died 13 March 1945. Age 30.
Remembered with honour at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery.

[Spangle]

James William Keen, 1897 - 1917, Rifleman, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 21st Btn. Twenty years old. James fell following the Battle of Pilkem at Passchendaele and is buried at Godewaersvelde Cemetery.

Carol Lancelot Herbert Cook, 1926 - 1946, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps. Twenty years old. Lied about his age to serve his country at 17 and two years after the end of the war, having sustained terriblle injuries in Italy was to pay the ultimate price at home in Peckham, London. Buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery.

William George Laughlin, the Great Grandad I never knew, of Camberwell, London. William passed away some time after the First World War as a result of gassing sustained whilst fighting for his country and family. He left behind my grieving Great Nan, my Nan, aged 14, and her sister aged 1 and a half.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

[Mike Fear]

In memory of my great uncles
George Foley died 16/12/1915 age 29 remembered at Kut
Frank Foley died 16/8/1917 aged 21 remember at Tyne Cot
Albert Clark died 3/3/1917 age 25 remembered at Lijssenthoek
Least we forget

[Jan1954]

I read this thread yesterday evening and was in tears by the time I reached the end.

I am so very lucky that neither of my grandfathers, nor any of my great grandfathers or their brothers, perished in the carnage of the Great War.

I have photographs that my grandfather took during that time and, when he was alive, he was always an active member of the British Legion.

I will always remember the fallen...

[browntoa]

to my great uncle Maurice Magasiner, only arrived in the country from Russia in the early 1900's , but gladly joined up to fight for his new country in 1914 and died in Service 1917

Buried in Gaza

[Spangle]

I read this thread yesterday evening and was in tears by the time I reached the end.

I am so very lucky that neither of my grandfathers, nor any of my great grandfathers or their brothers, perished in the carnage of the Great War.

I have photographs that my grandfather took during that time and, when he was alive, he was always an active member of the British Legion.

I will always remember the fallen...

Reading over this and writing of my own family whom I never had the pleasure of meeting, I too was in tears. I enjoyed the love of my Great Nan, Lily Laughlin, until I was 14... had it not been for the war I might have known and loved my Great Grandad, William Laughlin, too.

Whatever Gods we may all have or might not have, I pray to all of them that we never have to know the pain which our ancestors suffered.

Indeed, "Lest We Forget".