2nd sept 1918

[David Ives]

pte jackson killed at beugney:cry:

full details at http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=5818

[David Ives]

yes ive posted a day early so tommorow someone near thetford can lay some flowers for us at the memorial please

[Rick W]

Nice one David.

[N.O.S.]

yes ive posted a day early so tommorow someone near thetford can lay some flowers for us at the memorial please

 

In hand due entirely to your timely reminder.......will be there for 12.00 hrs(he fell between 1 and 2pm as far as we can tell from the diaries).

[David Ives]

chears for that tommorow at 1pm i will do a minutes silence for him

[N.O.S.]

OK, I'll try for 1pm too, but have to meet a low loader at 2pm :sweat:

[Tony B]

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them.

[David Ives]

:thanx:i hope everyone felt like i did today

next milestone will be on the 11/11 at the menin gate

[N.O.S.]

The wording on the card is as below (the words somehow seemed appropriate):

 

 

 

Pte. B. Jackson

 

 

 

 

Killed in action in France

Sept. 2nd 1918

 

 

 

 

 

ATTACK

 

 

 

 

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

In wild purple of the glow’ring sun,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope; and one by one,

Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.

The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed

With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear,

Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,

Flounders in mud. O Jesus, make it stop!

 

 

 

 

Siegfried Sassoon

 

 

[David Ives]

well done mate i hope to put a cross for the hmvf at the menin gate in november