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Re: Somme
I'm glad Accrington had a memorial service. It's good to know that though those men are long gone they are not forgotten.
I had an uncle, by marriage, who, with his brother Leopold, fought on the Somme with the Essex Regiment. He lived to be over 90 and we didn't find out he had fought there until his funeral service; he had never talked about it. It must have been doubly hard for them as their father was German and was interned in the Isle of Man throughout the war, even though he had lived in England since 1890 and married an English woman.
They called it the war to end all wars. So much sacrifice by so many men and the world still hasn't learned. It makes it all the more poignant.
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