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Good morning all on this 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and #RemembranceDay2018 , the 100th anniversary of the Great War's Armistice.
(Mass for Allied soldiers in a gully on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Sep 1915)
(Mass for Allied soldiers in a gully on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Sep 1915)
As today (11 Nov 18) is #RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay100
Please buy a red poppy & help ADF veterans & families
remembranceday.org.au/about-us/rememβ¦ β¦
Please buy a red poppy & help ADF veterans & families
remembranceday.org.au/about-us/rememβ¦ β¦
Australia's Great War (1914-1919)
- 5m population
- 416,809 men enlisted
- more than 60,000 killed in action
- 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner
- 5m population
- 416,809 men enlisted
- more than 60,000 killed in action
- 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner
Cooks of the 2nd Australian Battalion preparing bully-beef rissoles for the evening meal, Ypres. #WorldWarI #Remembrance2018
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A British soldier in a flooded dug-out in a front line trench near Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders. #WorldWarI #Remembrance2018
This one is from my book, The Colour of Time: tinyurl.com/y9ddsvzj
This one is from my book, The Colour of Time: tinyurl.com/y9ddsvzj
After fierce fighting in late 1914 and early 1915, Ploegsteert Wood became a quiet sector where no major action took place. Units were sent here to recuperate and retrain after tougher fighting elsewhere and before returning to take part in more active operations.
British Tommies referred to Ploegsteert Wood as "Plugstreet Wood". From January to May 1916, Winston Churchill served in the area as Commanding Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
