Oldgroaners Phone&Compact

By Oldgroaner

A message from Another World in another time!

This is the Waggoner's memorial at Sledmere East Yorkshire, a quite unique First World War Memorial aimed at the illiterate Farm Hands who walked off to volunteer, often never to return.
On the Top row we see the farm worker at work being handed his call up papers, which , though he couldn't read them, the postman would have told him what they were.
The middle row show him leaving Mother, wife, child and dog,  with a snack in a handkerchief tied to his walking stick, and walking the ten miles of so to Driffield to the Railway station.
The bottom row shows him at the front, delivering supplies to Amiens and fighting off the mass of Germans that outnumber him.
The panels continue around the monument with other scenes and my additional image gives a general view.

I have never seen a more touching, or informative war memorial anywhere.
Primitive in execution and style it may be, but in pathos it is incredibly effective.

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