Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Remembering Lieutenant W.E.S.Owen MC, 2nd Manchesters, who died on 4th November 1918 - and all those who fell in the forgotten Battle of the Sambre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Ors Communal Cemetery: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 WFA memorial: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Graham-McAdam Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Thank you, Paul - the first of many, I expect. Such a little stretch of water - so much destruction. Always treasure WO, my first contact with the Great War, via Britten. Is that a new memorial? There's so much mileage in the text on his grave - his mother's travesty of his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Hi Graham - glad you found the photos of interest. The memorial was put up in the ?early 1990s I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Coulson Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Nice to see these pictures Paul and a fitting rememberance of the man on this day. Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Roper Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 As a teacher, at our school we have our very own 'Wilfred Owen'. This is Edward Webber, MGC, who was the youngest son of three who died on this date, buried at Ors also. Much less famous but the focus for our remembrance today. Edward lived in view of the churchyard in Chard Somerset, little was he to know that his two brothers and himself would die within a year of ecah other. Just three names inscribed on the memorial which stands in the churchyard now........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Remembering all those who fell..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 And also remembering 2nd Lt James Kirk VC. killed in action whilst attached to 2/Manchester, 4/11/18. Buried at Ors - remembered with honour in his native Cheadle Hulme. James' story is here John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 And also remembering 2nd Lt James Kirk VC. killed in action whilst attached to 2/Manchester, 4/11/18. Buried at Ors - remembered with honour in his native Cheadle Hulme. James' story is here John <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I meant to post his photo, and a couple of others as well. Kirk's headstone: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Lt-Col Marshall VC (Owen's former commanding officer) is also buried here; he was killed leading one of the Salford Pals battalions on 4th November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 A general view of where they are all buried, Ors Communal Cemetery: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 4 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2005 And finally, Ors British Cemetery; one that many people go to thinking Owen is buried there, and the only one with a visitor's book - and indeed, the closest to the canal itself. Most of those in here are from units on the left flank of 32nd Division's attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Simon Bull Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Remembering Wilfred Owen. One of the many things which sparked my interest in the Great War was that at the poncey private school which I attended for a (mercifully) short period before going back into the state sector, we had an elocution prize for which we had to recite "Anthem for Doomed Youth". As always teacher's pet won, but it sparked my interest in Owen and contributed to my interest in the War and increased my interest in poetry. What a wonderful poem and just one of many, and what a grimly fascinating experience of the War Owen had, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Paul Thanks for the Kirk piccie. I hadnt seen the grave before. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6th Shropshires Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Remembering Wilfred Owen a Shropshire Lad, and all those who lost there lives on this day. Annette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonycad Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 The action on the Ors-Siambre that day but have been hot and hectic, which culminated in James Marshall and James Kirk's VC's, as well as two others. Four VC's in a day, with the end of the war so near. Such is human endeavour. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Roper Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 From earlier post, story about Edward Webber who died on the 4th. His older brother William died in Oct 1917 and his eldest brother, Robert, was killed in December of 1917......... webber.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StAubyns Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 I find that photographs of areas that I have not visited stimultes a desire to visit the area concerned. Excellent photos as usual Paul. Definately a trip for next year, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harribobs Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 The Manchesters group always likes to add a little more when one of the regiment is mentioned so how about 2/Lt W Owen's medical report (25-6-17) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybee Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 There's so much mileage in the text on his grave - his mother's travesty of his work. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wasn't aware of this, can you explain? Remembering Wilfred Owen and all who fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 Thanks for reminding me Paul, what is said on his headstone, I can't really see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBrigg Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 ...Whatever hope is yours, Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world, Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair... Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery; from 'Strange Meeting' Thanks for the pictures and medical report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mythago Posted 4 November , 2005 Share Posted 4 November , 2005 It's thirty years since I first 'did' Owen in English, and poems like Dulce et Decorum Est are as powerful to me now as they were the first time I read them. What a loss. Superb pictures too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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