They left from Southampton on boats for the front, and one body returned to Dover at the end of the war. The rest were buried overseas. So all the war memorials are empty tombs. Putting the dust of the battlefields back on them was the point of this journey, to bring something of the lads home.
Do you follow thier original passage from Southampton to Dover?
They left from Southampton on boats for the front, and one body returned to Dover at the end of the war. The rest were buried overseas. So all the war memorials are empty tombs. Putting the dust of the battlefields back on them was the point of this journey, to bring something of the lads home.