pferguson | November 21, 2012
National Army Museum Video, London, England The Old Wooden Box The old hinged wooden box belonged to their father and grandfather. It sat upon a shelf in his room where he read the newspaper and scribbled a few notes, the reminders of the day. A few times a year Grampa might take the box down […]
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pferguson | November 12, 2012
The Wedding of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon That dear lady, the late Queen Mother was married to the Duke of York, later King George VI, at Westminster Abbey April 26, 1923. As she entered the Abbey she quite unexpectedly laid her bouquet of flowers at the tomb of the British Unknown Warrior. Her act […]
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pferguson | November 6, 2012
Padre Railton’s Unknown Warrior During the Great War Padre David Railton M.C. found within a garden at Armentières, France a soldier’s grave with a wooden cross. Upon its horizontal beam the inscription “An Unknown British Soldier (of the Black Watch)”. Railton was moved. His idea, that when this war…this war to end all wars…had ended […]
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pferguson | November 3, 2012
Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper. (Isaiah 29:4) Time to Remember I have looked upon this picture a hundred times or more and in every instance I look into […]
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Tags: Great War, Highland Light Infantry Club, Poppies, Poppy Wreaths, Remembrance, Terlincthun British Cemetery