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'The poor bloody infantry. Dead right. That's what we were'

POSTED BY: FREDGIBLET
UPDATED: Sunday, July 15, 2007 05:15
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Friday, July 13, 2007 8:19 AM

FREDGIBLET

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Friday, July 13, 2007 11:53 AM

OLDENGLANDDRY


Quote:

Originally posted by fredgiblet:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/07/12/no
split/ftharry112.xml


No agenda, just thought this guy should be known by all.






And remembered, along with all the other PBI's that did the dirty work back in the day.

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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:20 PM

FREDGIBLET


Quote:

Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
And remembered, along with all the other PBI's that did the dirty work back in the day.



Indeed, there should be (and might be I don't know) a program in place that goes around to all the vets of WW1, WW2 and Korea, and later add on the other major wars as they start to pass out of living knowledge, and record their memories of the war. Just have someone sit down and record whatever they want to say about the wars.

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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:49 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Agreed, Fred.

Again, see sig.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Friday, July 13, 2007 9:44 PM

OLDENGLANDDRY


Quote:

Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Quote:

Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
And remembered, along with all the other PBI's that did the dirty work back in the day.



Indeed, there should be (and might be I don't know) a program in place that goes around to all the vets of WW1, WW2 and Korea, and later add on the other major wars as they start to pass out of living knowledge, and record their memories of the war. Just have someone sit down and record whatever they want to say about the wars.





The BBC had a website (which I believe is now only an archive) called "Peoples War" where people of all walks of life recounted their stories of living through WWII. Have a dig around and you should still find it out there.

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Friday, July 13, 2007 9:49 PM

OLDENGLANDDRY

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Saturday, July 14, 2007 2:12 PM

SOUPCATCHER


Thanks for the link, fredgiblet.

I hadn't thought at all about how devastating WWI was until I roamed the highlands of Scotland on vacation. It seemed like every town, no matter how little, had a monument listing the residents who died. The sheer numbers, based on the sizes of these communities, was numbing. It even seemed to dwarf the numbers listed who died during WWII.

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Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:27 PM

FREDGIBLET


I think it's easier to forget WW1 partly because of the relatively contained areas that it occurred in, there was an enormous amount of death contained in a relatively small combat zone, where WW2 ranged across entire continents

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Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:50 PM

OLDENGLANDDRY


Quote:

Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Thanks for the link, fredgiblet.

I hadn't thought at all about how devastating WWI was until I roamed the highlands of Scotland on vacation. It seemed like every town, no matter how little, had a monument listing the residents who died. The sheer numbers, based on the sizes of these communities, was numbing. It even seemed to dwarf the numbers listed who died during WWII.



Pretty much every town and village in England has these monuments too. We call them Cenotaphs. There were very many more casualties in WWI compared to WWII (20,000 on the first day of the Somme alone compared to about 6,000 on D-day) and in some places a whole generation of young men was simply wiped out. It changed the dynamic of our social system completely, not least by bringing Women to the fore on the home front in ways that had been unimaginable previously.

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Sunday, July 15, 2007 5:15 AM

STARRBABY


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During his recovery in Britain, he met his first wife. "Knocked her down. She was coming down some steps from the cinema and I was running for the bus and knocked her down. Picked her up, dusted her off and it started from that."


How romantic. Just like something from a movie.

Wouldn't you like to just sit and talk with this guy?

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