pferguson | December 23, 2017
Greetings Christmas and New Year I can only imagine a group of soldiers at Christmas with their thoughts of home. Glasgow, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Falkirk, Peebles and others. Though at home they may rise in the morning to different landscapes they are brothers in this trench, this town, this Scotland. To soldiers near and far, […]
Category: Christmas Special |
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Tags: Armentières, Arras, Christmas, Festubert, Film History, I’m Dreaming of Home, Joyeux Noël, Loos, Lyrics, New Year, Scottish Soldier, Scottish Soldiers, Somme, Vimy, Ypres
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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Tags: Armentières, Brigadier General L.J. Wyatt D.S.O., Cenotaph (London Whitehall), General George Pershing, Guests of Honour (Relatives of the Fallen), H.M.S. Verdun, Herbert Ryle (Dean of Westminster), King George V, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Medal of Honor, Padre David Railton, Platform 8 (London Victoria), Royal Horse Artillery, Unknown Warrior, Victoria Cross Guard of Honour, Westminster Abbey
