Remembrance Sunday

[cyberblue]

As we speak loved ones are being killed young men, women and children are being injured, people are being tortured , You would have hoped lessons would have been learnt and families wouldn't have to suffer any more

 

[alkerblue]

I am fortunate to be involved in Flixton ex servicemen's association at the John Alker memorial hall in Flixton, as you can imagine this weekend is a major event in our year. We will all be at the cenotaph at the Nagshead circle Urmston and then back to the club for a fantastic free brass band concert with a hot pot lunch and plenty of drink flowing.
This year we are also holding a charity auction with some fantastic lots to raise money to improve our kitchens.
The hall is used for multiple events and social gatherings throughout the year but perhaps my personal favourites are the breakfast club meetings we have for Trafford veterans. We have at least 3 old boys in their 90s who tell some very humbling stories.
There is a very famous photograph that maybe someone a bit cleverer than me will post, which shows a group of heavily bearded and rather scuffy looking guys sat in a jeep, guns ready to go into battle, these lads are SAS and are about to drive down a desert runway under heavy fire and destroy all the German aircraft. One of those blokes comes to our breakfast club and till you sit and talk to him he's just old Tommy who sits in the corner. Amazing ordinary people who had the courage to do extraordinary things.
Please feel free to come along.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

I am fortunate to be involved in Flixton ex servicemen's association at the John Alker memorial hall in Flixton, as you can imagine this weekend is a major event in our year. We will all be at the cenotaph at the Nagshead circle Urmston and then back to the club for a fantastic free brass band concert with a hot pot lunch and plenty of drink flowing.
This year we are also holding a charity auction with some fantastic lots to raise money to improve our kitchens.
The hall is used for multiple events and social gatherings throughout the year but perhaps my personal favourites are the breakfast club meetings we have for Trafford veterans. We have at least 3 old boys in their 90s who tell some very humbling stories.
There is a very famous photograph that maybe someone a bit cleverer than me will post, which shows a group of heavily bearded and rather scuffy looking guys sat in a jeep, guns ready to go into battle, these lads are SAS and are about to drive down a desert runway under heavy fire and destroy all the German aircraft. One of those blokes comes to our breakfast club and till you sit and talk to him he's just old Tommy who sits in the corner. Amazing ordinary people who had the courage to do extraordinary things.
Please feel free to come along.

This one??

 

[Ancient Citizen]

This one??

If @alkerblue won't mind, that photo, I believe, is the very first incarnation of the SAS, featuring its founder, Major Sterling.
Formed by him, to create havoc behind German lines in North Africa, by attacking airfields and fuel dumps, bringing in supplies and
reinforcements, if one of these lads coming into his club, he is truly lucky, most of them are no longer with us.

 

[alkerblue]

That's the one thanks Radcliffe, and yes AC, you are also correct. Second from the left in that photo, Corporal Tommy Norfolk, busted down from Sargeant but thats another story. ; )

 

[s1ty m]

The final, edited version of our amateur trubute. 2 amateur blokes with a drone, phones and free editing software. Footage from The Somme last week. Their name liveth forever more. Incredible place, I'm drawn back to it time and time again.

Sound source essential...

 

[Gabriel]

A rather different but eerily effective act of remembrance in Suffolk.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-50321238

 

[BlueHammer85]

Sad how many on social media use this as an excuse to post anti Muslim memes.

 

[NI Blue]

The final, edited version of our amateur trubute. 2 amateur blokes with a drone, phones and free editing software. Footage from The Somme last week. Their name liveth forever more. Incredible place, I'm drawn back to it time and time again.

Sound source essential...

Very moving, my great Uncle James who was KIA at the Somme on 1July 1916 is buried in the Connaghut Cemetery at Thiepval. We established he was buried three times, the first where he fell, then after a lull in the fighting his body was removed to a temporary gravesite and then he was dug up and moved to his final resting place. I dont honestly think we can fathom to horror of the those days and seeing the drone fly over the graves was very humbling. Stunning piece of work and congratulations to all involved.

 

[hammocity]

The Polish were outstanding in WW2. My grandfather was a newsagent and when he died (stomach cancer) we realised that no Polish customers had ever been charged a penny for newspapers (over many years). Just because he served with them.

Poland lost around 6m of their population in WW2 which included a huge Civilian number murdered for being Jewish. Their services and resistance fighters were amongst the bravest of the conflict, big respect to all the fallen this weekend, including the conflicts that have happened since WW2.