Epitaph

[Ozzie]

We are off to the Battlefields in August. So packing tissues and tissues.

Hope you have an arrangement with your phone company, Adelaide is certainly along way from you.

Do you get to visit?

Cheers

Kim

[Terry_Reeves]

On the grave of Pte V Clink, 1st Bn London Regiment RF at the Cambrai Memorial:

"Nettie's Chum"

TR

[ejcmartin]

Two which never fail to move me.

Name: TUFF, JAMES ROY

Initials: J R

Nationality: Canadian

Rank: Corporal

Regiment/Service: Newfoundland Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Age: 22

Date of Death: 28/04/1917

Service No: 23

Additional information: Son of Edmund and Serena Tuff, of 5 I, Hayward Avenue, St. John's, Newfoundland.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: III. H. 17.

Cemetery: DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

"This Sacred Dust is Newfoundland not France and held in trust"

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I have never seen this before. The tears welled up in my eyes when I read it. Although now part of Canada, Newfoundlanders wear their past with pride.

As an additional note, 51 Hayward Avenue is about 10 minute walk from my home.

[Marnik]

This text is on the gravestone of George Church,Lyssenthoek cemetery Poperinge:

Marnik

[ralphjd]

One of the saddest is in my opinion that of Private Albert INGHAM " SHOT AT DAWN ONE OF THE FIRST TO ENLIST A WORTHY SON OF HIS FATHER" What he must have felt when he found out the truth of his sons death years after the war beggers belief.