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Poppy Time
Im watching the Everton- Spurs game just now.I see Everton are wearing their poppies with pride.Nothing on the Spurs tops.Why?Were there no Spurs players or fans died in any of the wars?
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Villa v Liverpool yesterday, Villa players had poppies on their shirts Liverpool players didn't. Members of the armed forces layed two wreaths in the center circle before kick off and their was two minutes silence ( which both sets of fans observed ).
Liverpool will do the same next weekend at their home match.
Liverpool will do the same next weekend at their home match.
Ive been proofreading a WW1 diary - France 1911.
"....April 22nd.A memorable day for No 3 Field Artillery as now for the first time we have seen WAR in all its horrors. The day had passed quietly - a route march round by Brielen and stretcher drill; only the flow of incoming refugees was steady. At 5.20 p.m. violent cannon fire started on our left, it was not so extensive as that of the previous Sat. night. About 6 p.m. a battery of French artillery, showing signs of haste and disorder passed through here going West! It was soon apparent there was something far wrong for on their heels came companies of Louaves and French infantry, the
majority of whom were without rifles. Mixed with them were crowds of refugees from Ypres with panic written broad on their faces. They brought the story that the Germans were shelling the French lines with projectiles filled with a highly poisonous gas and that resistance was impossible. Incidentally their movement roused the highly excitable people wherever they passed through and the general opinion was that the Huns were right on Ypres and liable to cut off the British forces west of there.
About 6.30 p.m. a German airman flew over the town dropping shells. The firing all this time was very heavy. Word came that 17-1/2in shell were working awful havoc in Ypres. But the Boches did not enjoy their success long for the Canadian Division was ordered to occupy the trenches so basely abandoned by the French (we had lost some artillery also, as they were supporting our guns). From all accounts the Canadians did their duty that night most nobly, though sadly cut up by the enemy's shell-fire. By mid-night the trenches had been retaken and the advance was pressed home with the bayonet which, as usual, the Germans had no stomach for. No man of the F'lambulance went to bed that night. By 10 p.m. the wounded were being brought in and soon the operating room resembled a "boucherie". It is hardly credible how men can live with such awful holes in their bodies. There were many cases suffering from the gas fumes and their agonies were pitiable.
April 23rdRight through the small hours the red-cross wagons came rushing in and by daylight the accommodation had given out and the stretchers had to be laid out in the yard. The Canadians were numerous and many got a bad smashing up. Major Godson who was being praised all round for his gallant lead in the attack was in a state too awful to describe, as was many others. Several poor boys breathed their last in these painful surroundings. There was a German officer and private amongst the stricken and any feeling of enmity melted away at sight of their sufferings...."
This soldier was 17y.
Wearing a poppy in remembrance is NOT too much to ask, for the freedom you enjoy.
"....April 22nd.A memorable day for No 3 Field Artillery as now for the first time we have seen WAR in all its horrors. The day had passed quietly - a route march round by Brielen and stretcher drill; only the flow of incoming refugees was steady. At 5.20 p.m. violent cannon fire started on our left, it was not so extensive as that of the previous Sat. night. About 6 p.m. a battery of French artillery, showing signs of haste and disorder passed through here going West! It was soon apparent there was something far wrong for on their heels came companies of Louaves and French infantry, the
majority of whom were without rifles. Mixed with them were crowds of refugees from Ypres with panic written broad on their faces. They brought the story that the Germans were shelling the French lines with projectiles filled with a highly poisonous gas and that resistance was impossible. Incidentally their movement roused the highly excitable people wherever they passed through and the general opinion was that the Huns were right on Ypres and liable to cut off the British forces west of there.
About 6.30 p.m. a German airman flew over the town dropping shells. The firing all this time was very heavy. Word came that 17-1/2in shell were working awful havoc in Ypres. But the Boches did not enjoy their success long for the Canadian Division was ordered to occupy the trenches so basely abandoned by the French (we had lost some artillery also, as they were supporting our guns). From all accounts the Canadians did their duty that night most nobly, though sadly cut up by the enemy's shell-fire. By mid-night the trenches had been retaken and the advance was pressed home with the bayonet which, as usual, the Germans had no stomach for. No man of the F'lambulance went to bed that night. By 10 p.m. the wounded were being brought in and soon the operating room resembled a "boucherie". It is hardly credible how men can live with such awful holes in their bodies. There were many cases suffering from the gas fumes and their agonies were pitiable.
April 23rdRight through the small hours the red-cross wagons came rushing in and by daylight the accommodation had given out and the stretchers had to be laid out in the yard. The Canadians were numerous and many got a bad smashing up. Major Godson who was being praised all round for his gallant lead in the attack was in a state too awful to describe, as was many others. Several poor boys breathed their last in these painful surroundings. There was a German officer and private amongst the stricken and any feeling of enmity melted away at sight of their sufferings...."
This soldier was 17y.
Wearing a poppy in remembrance is NOT too much to ask, for the freedom you enjoy.
