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A First World War Story. My Theme for Remembrance
This was a story my father told me late one night in 1958 as we sat by a dying fire. He was smoking a last cigarette before beginning his nightly routine of winding the clock, putting the empty milk bottles … Continue reading
Posted in Belfast Social History, family, veterans
Tagged Belast, boot camp, driving., fear, first world war, france, Germans, Kaiser, motor cars, Talbot/Clement, trenches
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100 years After the Great War.
This is a story my Father once told me many years ago. I post it on my blog today as a tribute to him, he served with the British Army from 1916 to 1919 at the front and later as … Continue reading
Posted in Belfast Social History, military, veterans
Tagged Aeroplanes, cold, darkness weather snow, Great War, ice, machine gun, passwords, pot holes ruts., rifle, strafed, trenches, uniforms wet soggy
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