A moment of your time.

[Peter Crowe]

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

Written in 1916 by John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958)

[Dileasgubas]

Yesterday, we commemorated the 900 men from Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Counties who went to war one hundred years ago. Of the 900 who left, 700 were killed or wounded. Glengarry County, a rural farming area, lost 4% of its population. Canada, a country of some 8 million people, put over 600,000 men and women into uniform, 67,000 of whom never returned from the Front in Europe or Siberia. It was a big commitment for a small country and many of the small rural areas such as ours were changed forever. Lest we forget.

[Ron Abbott]

A friend sent me a photograph this morning, which comes from the Facebook page of the Metropolitan Police Service in London.

With it......

"Officer remembered - PC Albert James Blake

PC Albert James Blake, one of the tallest officers in the MPS at over seven feet tall, was a serving police officer when he was called up to join the London Scottish Regiment in 1917.

Just a few months into his service on 29 November 1917 he received a gunshot wound to his right arm and was sent back home to receive treatment. Despite his injuries he returned back to the front line in France where he was shot for a second time above his right eye in August 1918.

However, his courage and bravery knew no bounds, as he returned to the Metropolitan Police Service he was awarded a bravery medal for saving several people from a burning building in Belgravia."

https://www.facebook.com/metpoliceuk...type=1&theater

[CameronCat]

A special day, indeed.

My father, David Taylor of Aberdeen, Scotland, served in WW1 in Egypt and related areas with the Cameron Highlanders and the Lovat Scouts. He met T.E. Lawrence several times, and saw some combat but nothing close to the scale of the European front. He (evidently) entered as enlisted, but was quickly promoted and earned an ultimate field promotion to Major.

He and his unit(s) received a number of awards, ribbons and citations but I'm not sure the originals emigrated with him--I never saw them. In later years he had some lapel size miniatures either made or purchased; I still have them but have no idea for what they stand.

He also told me that he had later met men who had played in the "flare lit soccer game" on Christmas Eve on the western front.

By common calculation of generations, I should be his grandson not his son, but I was a very late-in-life child. (Surprise, Mom!) I would love to trace his military records but am told that most of the WW1 records were destroyed during WW II.

[Geoff Withnell]

We never got the details, but I am told my Grandfather served in WWI. To all his comrades who were not as lucky, we salute you!

[Nathan]

We will remember them. Thank you for this thread, Jock.

[MacBean]

A special day, indeed.

My father, David Taylor of Aberdeen, Scotland, served in WW1 in Egypt and related areas with the Cameron Highlanders and the Lovat Scouts. He met T.E. Lawrence several times, and saw some combat but nothing close to the scale of the European front. He (evidently) entered as enlisted, but was quickly promoted and earned an ultimate field promotion to Major.

By common calculation of generations, I should be his grandson not his son, but I was a very late-in-life child. (Surprise, Mom!) I would love to trace his military records but am told that most of the WW1 records were destroyed during WW II.

Hi Jim. I was going to say. My grandfather was a pilot in the Great War, but your father (?)- that was a surprise to me.
As a child, we were taken to the Veteran's Hospitals to visit gas victims, and that was 40 years later.