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Tomorrow (Sunday, November 9) is Remembrance Sunday, the occasion when we honour everyone who gave their lives in two world wars as well as in all conflicts since. This year, as every year, it is held on the Sunday closest to the anniversary of the end of World War I (the eleventh day of the […]

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[Kati]

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

I can remember (at the age of 10) being given the honour of playing the Last Post at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, I could hardly play for the tears!

[wales01man]

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We must ALWAYS remember those who gave their lives for this Country Military or Civilian

[Tools]

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I lost many of my family on my dad's side. All civilians during a bombing raid on Scarborough Harbour killed by a bomb dropped directly on their house. As a result I never really knew my paternal relatives.

• Siddle, Audrey - 15 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
  
• Siddle, George - 13 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
  
• Siddle, George - 48 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
  
• Siddle, Gerald - 11 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
  
• Siddle, John - 5 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
  
• Siddle, Lily - 48 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271

Their names appear on the war memorial cenotaph at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough.

[Amethyst]

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Their names appear on the war memorial cenotaph at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough.

Tuesday, 18th/Wednesday, 19th March 1941 Scarborough.. Was bombed intermittently for about four hours from 21.00 onwards, twenty-five people were killed, including six members of one family in North Marine Road

[righty]

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My Dad fought in France in WWI He was very tall 6' and was able to join up aged 15years. He was a member of the Black Watch. He would never talk about it. What I did know I got from my Mum. I discovered very recently when researching my families history that he was mentioned in dispatches. I can only think it was because of something Mum told me when I asked why he wouldn't tell me anything about that war. Apparently he saw his mates cut down by a German machine gun nest. He went forward angry as hell and took out two machine gun nests left & right shooting and bayoneting the 8 Germans manning the guns. All of this whilst wearing a bleeding kilt and Sporran

In WWII He served in The Mercantile Marine. This involved many convoys and on two occasions the ships he was on were sunk by U-boats. I understand that as a marine chief engineer he spent a short time working on a Q boat (a light cruiser disguised as a merchant vessel ) which was successful in sinking a couple of U-boats. I imagine revenge was sweet

Anyone wanting to know about such ships should get hold of the film 'Under Ten Flags' Its about a German Q boat and its completely true. It shows the German Captain Bernhard Rogge as being very chivalrous as he always asked the merchant ships crew to abandon ship before he would sink it. He would then have the survivours brought aboard his ship.
This same captain was never arrested (unlike many others including Admiral Doenitz) because many of the seaman who's ships he'd sank spoke up for him. In fact he ended up Chief of Nato Forces

The film stars amongst others Charles Lawton who plays an Admiral hunting the German and Van Heflin plays the German Captain Bernhard Rogge. Its a ripping yarn AND its true and above all accurate but then it IS a British movie

[Wombats]

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I visited the war graves a few years ago on a planned holiday in France / Belgium, including taking in the magnificent Menin Gate in Ypres where the road is still closed every evening for a rendition of The Last Post.

Viewing the small amounts of ground which were fought over, and for which huge numbers of people lost their lives really brings home the total futility of war in one sense. Looking at part of a field and reading of hundreds of deaths lost in capturing just a few yards of ground, then seeing row upon row of white crosses in the cemetries is humbling.

It makes it very hard to think of the bigger picture, and the realisation that without those futile losses, the place we live today may have been very different indeed.

[Unregistered]

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The family listed below are also in my family - my father used to cycle to Scarbro' and watch the cricket from one of their bedroom windows. Would love to contact relatives who connect to the Siddle family of Wakefield

I lost many of my family on my dad's side. All civilians during a bombing raid on Scarborough Harbour killed by a bomb dropped directly on their house. As a result I never really knew my paternal relatives.

• Siddle, Audrey - 15 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
• Siddle, George - 13 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
• Siddle, George - 48 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
• Siddle, Gerald - 11 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
• Siddle, John - 5 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271
• Siddle, Lily - 48 yrs - 19 Mar 1941 - 120 North Marine Rd, Scarborough, NRY - 2271

Their names appear on the war memorial cenotaph at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough.