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"Sunset and sunrise are blasphemous, they are mockeries to
man, only the black rain out of the bruised and swollen clouds
all through the bitter black of night is fit atmosphere in
such a land. The rain drives on, the stinking mud becomes more
evilly yellow, the shell holes fill up with green-white water,
the roads and tacks are covered in inches of slime, the black
dying trees ooze and sweat and the shells never cease ... They
plunge into the grave which is this land; one huge grave, and
cast upon it the poor dead!" - Paul Nash, 16.11.1917 |
Any given Remembrance
Sunday
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The Cenotaph is the most
enduring of temporary memorials. Constructed out of plaster
after the Great War, it was to serve as a central focal
pointfor Armistice Commemorations for the Empire. The sheer
simplicity of the construction won it the affection of
the nation, and it was replaced by the permanent memorial
of stone. |
1995 :: Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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I stood astride the River
Danube, one of Europe's mightiest waterways, thinking of
the batles in the Great War and Second War in Central and
Eastern Europe. |
1st July, 1996 :: 80th
anniversary of the start
of the Battle of the Somme.
Thiepval, France |
The commemorations to
mark the 80 anniversary of the start of the Battle of the
Somme, the most destructive of battles in which the British
Army has ever seen action, saw many veterans travel to
two days of services and events. I travelled with two friends
by car and actually spent the night of 30th June, as the
troops of the 36th (Ulster ) Division, in Thiepval Wood,
opposite the Schwaben Redoubt. |
| 1996 :: Grand Canyon |
On my journey back from
New Zealand I paused half-way back up the Grand Canyon
with a good friend from the
US Navy. |
| 1997 |
Cenotaph |
| 1998 |
RMA Sandhurst. |
| 2000 :: Downs Banks, Staffordshire |
An appropriate pause during
an orienteering
event. |
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| 2002 :: Birmingham |
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"My sea had been black; black and grey with
great lumps of roaring white water crashing over our bows to rush
swilling along the lurching deck. Often I had stood, gloved hands
gripping a rail or a stanchion, just gazing, awed by this immense
world of black and brutal water. Northern waters had been our lot,
and from the Western Isles of Scotland we had sailed out through
the Atlantic, the Irish Sea, the North Sea, the Pentland Firth,
the Skagerrak, the Kattegat, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia.
Nippy it had usually been, with rough weather the main feature,
but there had been times of stillness, times of friendship, times
of thoughtfulness, vigorous times, uncertain times, hilarious times
and tomes of wonder and great beauty." Able Seaman Peter
O'Toole RN
Picture of my dried poppy. |
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