Thread by @GrayConnolly

It is Armistice Day tomorrow - in 1918, at the 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month, the guns fell silent ... good wishes to all who are commemorating #RemembranceDay

Good morning all on this Armistice Day/ #RemembranceDay , the 104th anniversary of the Great War's end. Australia's Great War (1914-1919):
- national population of 5m
- 416,809 enlisted
- more than 60,000 killed in action
- 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner

My grandfather in Aug 1918 with his beloved sister Vera before going to France. My late grandfather would arrive for the Allied advance to the Nov 11 armistice. Like many, he would feel guilty for having survived. So many friends killed & wounded in the Great War. #RemembranceDay

My grandfather, 2LT Connolly, was 19 & a reinforcement officer in the British Expeditionary Force in late 1918. He passed well before I was born & many records were destroyed in WW2. Indebted to @TJGodden for making these drawings that allow me to glimpse his war. #RemembranceDay

My great+ uncles served @HAC_TheCompany (the oldest continuing squadron/regiment in the British Army & a sort of 'Hooray Henry' unit in the 19thC) in the Boer War and then for all of the Great War. Some would then be detached to the Royal Garrison Artillery. #RemembranceDay

Lieutenant PJ Connolly, RNVR, served in HMS Erebus during WW1 & after in the ill-fated Russian intervention. By all accounts a good officer, he went back to sea as a merchant mariner after the war & died before WW2 broke out.
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My uncles, Nicholas and Timothy, who would make careers in the British Army, serving in the BAOR, Ulster, one in Aden, before rejoining the family business .... and writing letters to the Torygraph on reviving the Latin Mass #RemembranceDay

I was most grateful to be invited to speak this morning at the #RemembranceDay / Armistice Day service at the Bowral war memorial in the Southern Highlands. The war memorial lists the numerous southern highlanders who served in every war & operation from the Boer War to today.

The audio of my address this morning to the #RemembranceDay / Armistice Day service at the Bowral war memorial in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia.

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Open Thread

Please feel free to post below for #ArmisticeDay / #RemembranceDay and share any familial reminiscences here #LestWeForget

Good morning all & especially to all those commemorating #ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay or #VeteransDay . "Lest We Forget"
[Will Longstaff's "Menin Gate at Midnight" or "Ghosts of Menin Gate" (1927)]

Good morning all on this Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Also, good morning to all Veterans throughout the former British Empire on this #RemembranceSunday

[Chaplain Gleeson conferring the Last General Absolution on the Royal Munsters at Rue du Bois in France, May 1915]