Armistice

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918, the allies of WW1 and Germany ceased their activities on the Western Front, although they still continued in other regions of the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

WW1, a war which was said to be the war to end all wars, has sadly proved to be a forlorn hope.
We must now remember those killed in WW2, Malaya, Korea, Suez, Aden, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq, Afghanistan, the list is never ending : a sad reflection of man's inhumanity to man.

Today as yesterday, Magpie and I remember particularly a great uncle and uncle we never knew- William Swinton Young a Corporal in the HLI who died of wounds at a Boulogne hospital in November 1916 aged 18.

"In Flanders' fields, the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row" - John McCrae.

My poppies were a gift from Walter Nimmo, who served with His Lordship in the jungles of Malaya during the 1950's communist insurgency there.