At the eleventh hour... on the eleventh day.... of the eleventh month

[Phil Bullock]

In the crazy world in which we currently live .... Covid, Trump, Brexit ..... 

 

Lest we forget.....

 

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by Phil Bullock

[Hroth]

I'd just set a timer to remind me at 10:50 to go and stand on my doorstep

At the eleventh hour... on the eleventh day.... of the eleventh month

to remember the brothers of both my grandmothers, who fell during WW1 and who I never knew.

And everyone else who has suffered from all sorts of wars since.

 

 

 

[Phil Bullock]

Think I will take my daily exercise and pass by the local memorial at the eleventh hour. Would normally have attended service at Claines Worcester on Sunday last but of course not feasible this year.

 

To honour Sgt Philip Bullock RAF 570264, lost on Operation Canonbury April 1942.

 

And to give thanks for the service of, and to remember

 

My Grandfather, Harold Bullock ... returned wounded from the Somme in 1915 , re-enlisted in the RAF
 

Uncle Tom Charleston, BEM .... RAF in Cyprus then ground crew chief on Vulcans at Waddington.

 

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.....

 

 

 

 

[dhjgreen]

Commemoration service for the unknown warrior 100, BBC1 10.30

[t-b-g]

I have been building my own mini memorial to the fallen. The last bits were put on yesterday evening, so although unpainted, she is completed just in time for the day.

 

[4630]

[john new]

On 11/11/2020 at 09:44, Hroth said:

I'd just set a timer to remind me at 10:50 to go and stand on my doorstep

At the eleventh hour... on the eleventh day.... of the eleventh month

to remember the brothers of both my grandmothers, who fell during WW1 and who I never knew.

And everyone else who has suffered from all sorts of wars since.

 

 

 

 

 

My wife and I did this on Sunday and today, sadly no one else within sight of us on the two streets visible did. 

 

NB Image reinstated Nov 22, it is one of my Facebook header images.

 

Edited November 6, 2022 by john new
Photo(s) found and replaced post crash.

[TheQ]

Sadly they didn't press the buzzer on the tannoy to announce the Silence as they normally do.. Then I realised it's only us workers here, the shinies  in personnel / Accounts etc are all Working from home, so there is no one at the base station to do the button pressing... So only me and one or two others that work alone and therefore can have the radio on will have noticed..

 

I have the plates to put on a Patriot class for the Royal Tank Corps, in remembrance of My Grandfather who survived WW2 and his many thousand comrades   who didn't..

[AndyB]

For my grandad - WWI in Salonica.

For my dad

For my uncles

For my brother - Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan.

For my friends who served and suffer still.

[AY Mod]

Each second of the silence translates to 41,666 allied military casualties, just from WW1. Horrifying and not even taking into account the subsequent losses after the Armistice.

 

To mark the centenary there's a short piece on the history and the van used to transport the Unknown Warrior on World of Railways - https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/news/marking-the-centenary-of-the-unknown-warrior/

 

[Gilbert]

15 minutes ago, john new said:

 

 

My wife and I did this on Sunday and today, sadly no one else within sight of us on the two streets visible did. 

 

The 2 minutes was 100% observed very respectfully in the large Tesco I was in at 11am today. There is hope.

[Ray Von]

My tribute, I started this sketch just before 11am today.

[The Stationmaster]

1 hour ago, john new said:

 

 

My wife and I did this on Sunday and today, sadly no one else within sight of us on the two streets visible did. 

 

We did it on Sunday and of the 8 front gates in our road which are visible from ours there were people, including us, standing at 5 of them.

Edited November 11, 2020 by The Stationmaster

[NorthBrit]

For all who fought in all theatres of war, we remember them always

 

[Steven B]

The BBC have an animation aimed at children but which is, I feel, moving regardless of age:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p4zsl/poppies

 

Steven B.

[Phil Bullock]

19 minutes ago, Steven B said:

The BBC have an animation aimed at children but which is, I feel, moving regardless of age:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p4zsl/poppies

 

Steven B.

Agreed .... very appropriate 

[Tankerman]

Being ex Merchant Navy myself, albeit in peacetime, I always stand in remembrance of the men of the Merchant Navy in both World Wars, particularly those of WWII, who in 1940 and 1941 suffered a near 50% death rate. Their sacrifice is now almost forgotten, but without them none of the armed services would have had very much to fight with and both they and the civilian population nowhere near enough food to eat.

[TheSignalEngineer]

I thought that the Cenotaph parade on Sunday was very well done. The low key nature really struck home to me much more than in normal years.

 

I was really hit this morning by the Australian pictures of the poppies projected onto the Sydney Opera House and the lone bugler on Circular Quay.

 

 

[Joseph_Pestell]

17 minutes ago, Tankerman said:

Being ex Merchant Navy myself, albeit in peacetime, I always stand in remembrance of the men of the Merchant Navy in both World Wars, particularly those of WWII, who in 1940 and 1941 suffered a near 50% death rate. Their sacrifice is now almost forgotten, but without them none of the armed services would have had very much to fight with and both they and the civilian population nowhere near enough food to eat.

 

In the Merchant Navy you never quite know when you may get called into action. My ex-wife's first husband was Engineer on Canberra for the Falklands.

[didcot]

 

The exterior of the Cavell Van as per Andy's post. Seen at Arley in 2018. An ordinary van with an extraordinary history. 

[Phil Bullock]

9 hours ago, Tankerman said:

Being ex Merchant Navy myself, albeit in peacetime, I always stand in remembrance of the men of the Merchant Navy in both World Wars, particularly those of WWII, who in 1940 and 1941 suffered a near 50% death rate. Their sacrifice is now almost forgotten, but without them none of the armed services would have had very much to fight with and both they and the civilian population nowhere near enough food to eat.

Please be assured the Merchant Navy are most definitely not forgotten here. Whilst the Battle of the Atlantic brought continual attrition the likes of PQ17 and Pedestal required dedication above and beyond. I am humbled every time I think of what was required.....and freely given.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Phil Bullock

[Chris M]

I ran all my Warships named after Ships that served during the world wars and duly stopped them in the station as a mark of respect and remembrance.  I looked into the history of my locos named after Royal Navy ships. Three of the five survived their wars but two didn't. HMS Goliath was torpedoed and sunk on 13th May 1915 with the sad loss of 570 men out of her complement of 750. HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier which was torpedoed and sunk on 11th August 1942. She sank in four minutes but 930 of the crew were rescued with 131 sadly loosing their lives. Reading up about the ships behind the names has given food for thought on this Remembrance Day.

 

 

[Phil Bullock]

Yes HMS Eagle was part of the Escort for The Pedestal convoy to Malta.... along with HMS Ledbury which went from Arctic duties with PQ17 to the Med with Pedestal, helping in the heroic rescue of the tanker SS Ohio.

 

Many men behind the heroic names of the ships gave everything .... your commemoration is most appropriate.

[john new]

Given the time of the year an appropriate post bump. The montage is a silhouette taken at the Lochnagar Crater memorial, a WW1 site near Albert, the poppies from Hampshire. 

Edited November 6, 2022 by john new

[phil_sutters]

On my visit to Steam I was struck by the war memorials to the staff of the works. The memorials were subscribed for by the workers and not by the company.

 

My father, when he was Vicar of Highbridge, had the honour of rededicating the Somerset & Dorset Works war memorial, which had been moved from the end of the S&D station building to a local community garden, on the closure of the S&D line. It had been on the Works itself until that closed.

 

Edited November 7, 2022 by phil_sutters
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