Thank you also for sharing , I too shed a tear, Horace IIes, gone but never forgotten , only 16 ,you can't imagine the horror's and fear he felt, he was a child , but a man. Horace you are a hero Rest In Peace, with your other comrades, who are remembered but their individual story forgotten. Maxine Peake your reading just pulled at my heart strings , bless you. We will never forget Horace.
These were men of the 'pals' battalions it was an idea making it easier for men to enlist in this case Horace Iles like many of his contemporaries from the North of England possibly from a mining community. He, like thousands of young men in 'pals' battalions they came from cricket teams, rugby and soccer clubs or factories, shops etc inevitably a very large percentage of these men who joined together trained together , inevitably died together as friends and work colleagues. You can probably imagine the huge holes left in their communities in small villages and towns where entire generations of men who went to fight never came home. In almost every village, town and city in the UK stands a memorial to the fallen. They shall not grow old As we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn them In the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them .
Yes, we have one of those, Killed in Action, return to sender. In this case it was a father (and mother) telling of their grief to their other son, Pte Francis Evans (51st Bn, AIF) after the loss of their youngest son (Capt Gerald Evans MC, 8th Bn, AIF) at the Battle of the Menin Rd (DoW, 20/9/1917). Francis or 'Ken' as was know to the family was KIA just over 3 weeks later near Zonnebeke (13/10/1917). It took 2-3 months for a letter posted in Australia to get to the men. Not a nice reminder to receive for the parents. Whether for Horace and his sister or my great uncles, these are letters that are very difficult to read with dry eyes.
You watch and listen and you hope that that, of which you know is going to come at the end of the video, will not come, and then it does appear - his headstone - and then your eyes get moist. Here is a small webpage about him: www dot leeds-pals dot com /soldiers /horace-isles (copy, paste and remove blank space where necessary). He isn't forgotten.
Thank you also for sharing , I too shed a tear, Horace IIes, gone but never forgotten , only 16 ,you can't imagine the horror's and fear he felt, he was a child , but a man. Horace you are a hero Rest In Peace, with your other comrades, who are remembered but their individual story forgotten. Maxine Peake your reading just pulled at my heart strings , bless you. We will never forget Horace.
Thank you for sharing this it brought me to my knees in tears
Heartbreaking. My great uncle Thomas Mallan was only 18 when he died of wounds received at Loos in 1915 while serving with the DLI.🇬🇧
What an unbelieveable carnage that war was.
How many letters like this must have been written by mothers and sisters hanging on to the hope that their loved ones would return. Lest we forget.
Moving beyond words…
Lest not Forget
that is so beautiful thank you Maxine Horace we love you so much colm burke new York city xxx
These were men of the 'pals' battalions it was an idea making it easier for men to enlist in this case Horace Iles like many of his contemporaries from the North of England possibly from a mining community. He, like thousands of young men in 'pals' battalions they came from cricket teams, rugby and soccer clubs or factories, shops etc inevitably a very large percentage of these men who joined together trained together , inevitably died together as friends and work colleagues. You can probably imagine the huge holes left in their communities in small villages and towns where entire generations of men who went to fight never came home. In almost every village, town and city in the UK stands a memorial to the fallen.
They shall not grow old
As we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn them
In the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them .
So incredibly sad...........
Heartbreaking..
Yes, we have one of those, Killed in Action, return to sender. In this case it was a father (and mother) telling of their grief to their other son, Pte Francis Evans (51st Bn, AIF) after the loss of their youngest son (Capt Gerald Evans MC, 8th Bn, AIF) at the Battle of the Menin Rd (DoW, 20/9/1917). Francis or 'Ken' as was know to the family was KIA just over 3 weeks later near Zonnebeke (13/10/1917). It took 2-3 months for a letter posted in Australia to get to the men. Not a nice reminder to receive for the parents. Whether for Horace and his sister or my great uncles, these are letters that are very difficult to read with dry eyes.
You watch and listen and you hope that that, of which you know is going to come at the end of the video, will not come, and then it does appear - his headstone - and then your eyes get moist.
Here is a small webpage about him: www dot leeds-pals dot com /soldiers /horace-isles (copy, paste and remove blank space where necessary).
He isn't forgotten.
The War to end all Wars...