Things That Gladden The Heart

Superb morning in the town local to work, us and another regiment parading to present wreaths at the remembrance monument. Superb turn out from the locals and wonderful to see so many Vets there in their blazers, wearing their medals and wanting to share their experiences with us and hear ours to.

We’ve got a mini bus back to camp booked, but it’s going to wait for us as a local pub has put on a free drink and lunch for every service member in uniform that was part of the parade. ❤️
 
Stumbled across a film on ITV1 yesterday afternoon that I’ve never watched - after the first 10mins of roboty things and a cute looking fighting princess (think she is one anyway) it looks really good and fun…so have recorded it. May well watch later today…it’s called Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Guess that there are Episodes I to III so will search them out if this one turns out to be any good.

Don’t know when it was made, but somehow it’s passed me by….anyway…😉
 
Arthur Wedge said:
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We remember and honour the sacrifice that so many made for us, their country and the wider world; so many they could not know, but did so nevertheless; and we can honour that sacrifice by each and every one of us, not just our leaders, treating all with humility, trust and compassion…as we ourselves would like to be treated by those we know, and by those we do not.

FOR I WILL GIVE YOU THE MORNING STAR
In the sunset of an age and an epoch we may write that for epitaph of the men who were of it. They went quiet and brave from the lands they loved, though seldom of that love might they speak, it was not in them to tell in words of the earth that moved and lived and abided, their life and enduring love. And who knows at the last what memories of it were with them, the springs and the winters of this land and all the sounds and scents of it that had once been theirs, deep, and a passion of their blood and spirit, those four who died in France?

And the pipes played The Flower of the Forest
 
The Ancestry site is giving free access to all UK War Records until midnight tomorrow.

I've just done a search and pulled up the full war record for my grandfather - mum's dad (at least as is held against his war pension record).

It confirms much I know...he signed up on 8th August 1914 to the 1st battalion of the Scottish Horse (later in the war merged into the Black Watch) and much more detail that I did not know - including that his final discharge in 1917 came about through shrapnel wounds to chest and shoulder received in France. This was after he'd been shipped home from the Macedonian front (he was landed at Salonika) suffering from severe dysentery and once deemed fit to resume active service he was sent to France. It also contains his full enlistment record.

Really fascinating and humbling when I consider the sacrifice that so many such as he made for us - so very many making the ultimate sacrifice. We must surely honor that sacrifice fittingly and with respect.
 
How can you find their military details?
I'm investigating my grandfather, but can't find any military history.
I know he fought at The Somme.
 
Slime said:
How can you find their military details?
I'm investigating my grandfather, but can't find any military history.
I know he fought at The Somme.
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You can use the website Ancestry

Also

uk.forceswarrecords.com

Forces War Records - Historical military records

Discover original military records including personal documents, photos, and stories from brave men and women who served. Access sources from the US and UK national archives today.
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