Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Earlier today I came across this passage in the The Morville Hours. It gave me pause for thought, so I thought I would share it with you.
The wearing of scarlet poppies and the laying of poppy wreaths on Remembrance Day dates from 1921, though the sheets of poppies which covered the battlefields of France [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2009
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have set up a new website that explains a current project, which sets out to move the remains of more than 600 casualties from Pheasant Wood to new military cemetery at Fromelles for their reburial.
In May 2008, after several years of painstaking research and investigation, five burial pits dating [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2009
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Synopsis from book cover: “One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry’s highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2009
