Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
My family have two names amongst the missing, one on the Thiepval Monument and one at Kohima. I, with the help of the South Staffordshire Regimental museum was able to find the nearest 10 acres in France, where one our chaps might be. The museum were able to be pretty exact in this case as they had a fairly accurate map reference of where an “incident” took place. My wife and I have visited the spot and left a poppy attached to a convenient fence post. It seemed appropriate as the fence line was made of WW1 metal fence posts tidied up from the battle field after the war ended. Being a farmer I am happy for him to rest there assisting with the growing of the crops.
As to the other chap? There is no trail to follow, I imagine somewhere amongst the jungle flora and fauna there is a tree growing that is just that wee tad bigger and a wee tad greener than the others . It helps....a bit.
Some of them still lie buried in collapsed dugouts and saps. Alaa, most were blown to atoms by artillery and mines. The plows bring up their shards every spring.
Last edited by Ninehostages; 12th November 21 at 05:13 AM.
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Those ancient U Nialls from Donegal were a randy bunch.
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