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At the battle of Ypres & is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium. We met up with our family members at Durham cathedral & paid our respects to someone none if us ever met. The book of remembrance was open, none of us will see the next 100th anniversary.
Both my lads agreed it was a very humbling day.
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RIP Grandad.
*Raises glass*
Thanks, Sgt Grainger.
Extraordinary the effect lost lives like that of Sgt. Grainger continue to have on all of us.
Clink's glass with CFH, to Sgt Grainger, and adds... To all those lost in every year, and all the services
As we say in Ukrainian: Glory to heroes!
A very moving day, I'm sure.
A distant relative of mine was killed on 11/05/1915 somewhere near Ypres and is now buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery in Canadalaan - just down the road from Hooge Crater Cemetery.
We were at his grave on 11/05/2015. Very moving.
Treasure your picture of your granddad - we have no idea what my relative looked like. Tantalisingly, there is a picture in the Hampshire Regiment museum in which he probably is, but that's as close as it gets for us.
*raises a glass*
Thanks soldier!
Thanks everyone. @SaxonRider, are you 'CanuKrainian?'
Sort of. Mrs SR definitely is, and while my grandparents also fled to Canada from Ukraine, they are actually ethnic Germans. Known in literature as ????????? ???? or Deutschen Russischen.
We are quite active in the Ukrainian community here in the UK though.
A very moving day, I'm sure.
It was. Even the great great grandkids seemed to be moved & theyr'e only 6 & 8!
I can recommend a couple of hotels and restaurants in Ypres and several other places to visit if anyone wants to go and stay over there. Ypres is fantastic - the Last Post at the Menin Gate is very emotional.
Rest in peace.
Respect to your grandfather.I can remember my gran telling me about her father fighting in WWI & stuff about the gas warfare,then her brothers going through WWII. I feel so grateful that conscription ended with National service,long may it remain that way.
100 years ago my Grandad had somehow survived four months since the disastrous landings at Suvla Bay. I've had what I'd call a difficult few months but HTF could it compare in any sense to what these men endured.
My grandfather was the youngest out of 13 siblings so he missed it, but I will always remember going to meet my great uncle Wydd in a nursing home with him wheezing away in an oxygen mask, his lungs wrecked due to being gassed in the trenches,lovely fella wish I had chance to see more than a glimpse of him, I didn't understand why at the time, took me quite a while to learn and understand why.
that ^. we live in privileged times.