dunc50 Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Today marks the 100th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele, if we could take a few minutes to remember the great loss and sacrifice of WW1,
REDCHEQHEN Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Watched the BBC programme yesterday - and this morning My other half was in Ypres 3 years ago - and witnessed the playing of 'The Last Post' played every evening at 8.00pm at the Menin Gates since 1928 I don't understand why there was no commemorative race this year The UNC Winner of Ypres in 2014 named their winner 'Passchendaele Poppy'.
Valiant Fifer Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Watched the opening of the Commemoration last night which was excellent, could hear a pin drop.
dunc50 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Report Posted July 31, 2017 Watched the BBC programme yesterday - and this morning My other half was in Ypres 3 years ago - and witnessed the playing of 'The Last Post' played every evening at 8.00pm at the Menin Gates since 1928 I don't understand why there was no commemorative race this year The UNC Winner of Ypres in 2014 named their winner 'Passchendaele Poppy'.respect
Valiant Fifer Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Watching it last night and today the soldiers stories from the West Flanders battlefield are gruesome. A war of attrition and wholesale slaughter.How on earth the surviving soldiers ever got through that god only knows because its well beyond me. The pain and suffering those men had to endure was unbelievable. We should never ever be allowed to forget them. Please remember their sacrifice!
glencameron Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 The figures and facts make grim reading and it's a very important point in history to be remembered.On the pigeon side we can do many wrongs but our friendship and respect for the city Ypres can be admired within the fraternity and beyond.
dunc50 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Report Posted July 31, 2017 bbc service of remembrance today was 1st class, they even mentioned the carrier pigeons sacrifice,
grdkeith Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Last nights programme was excellent,I visited Tyne cot cemetery 6 years ago ,very moving experience with a really good museum attached
dunc50 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Report Posted July 31, 2017 blackwatch marched through crief today kicking off a fortnight commemoration for passchendale
border terrier lofts Posted July 31, 2017 Report Posted July 31, 2017 Respect to all that fought& Fell. God bless each& every one of you.
blucock Posted August 1, 2017 Report Posted August 1, 2017 "I died in Hell - they called it Passchendaele" Lest We Forget
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