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Remembrance Sunday 2012 – Remembering the bravery of those who have served in, and gave their lives to war.
Remembrance Sunday has arrived again, and like so many others here in the UK, i have bought a poppy and will be observing the two minute silence at 11am.
There are seldom few days where I don’t spare my ancestors a thought, especially those who served and gave their life in the ugliness of war with a bravery far beyond anything I can comprehend.
Remembrance 2011 – remembering the brave and heroic who fought and who were lost in war.
I get completely tongue-tied when it comes to writing about war and Remembrance. So instead, here’s some photographs of a few of my relatives. Some of whom made it, others who weren’t so lucky.
Remembrance: Owen Gilbert Newman (1919-1944) who died when the Japanese ship he was on, was torpedoed and sunk by American forces.
Owen Gilbert Newman (2009982) served as a Sapper with the 288 Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.
Sadly he was taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese and joined 900 other British troops onboard the Kachidoki Maru ship, heading to Japan.
The ship was torpedoed and sunk by USS Pampanito, just North East of Hainan Island, near China on 12th September 1944.
400 British soldiers were on-board and subsequently lost their lives.
Nestled in a copy of hardbacked leatherbound edition of ‘Modern Practical Cookery (undated)’ that belonged to my Great Grandmother, I’ve just found a Dig For Victory leaflet (no. 11) on “Bottling and Canning Fruit and Vegetables”.
This is the first D4V leaflets that I’ve ever seen, so I thought that I would share this with you…
and here’s the inside…
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I thought i’d share these images as they were an important part of the United Kingdom’s wartime history.
