Lest We Forget . . .

The Unknown Soldier . . .

and the ones we never got to know.

. . . My Great-Uncle Percy.

Another Hero . . .
Held captive as Prisoners of War.

R.A.A.F. Airgunner Harry Redpath (centre)
shot down in 1943, losing one eye from a
shrapnel wound, then held in a German
POW camp for three years.

Uncle Harry was the lone survivor.

A Family Tradition;
Most of my male relatives have been
called on, or volunteerd, to go to war.
My grandfather survived Gallipoli,
only to be mustard gassed in France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
The one exemption was my older brother
who refused to fight in Vietnam.
๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ โ˜ฎ๏ธ

Salvador Dali painting ‘The Face of War’.

One of the many War Memorials
to be found in London  England.

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