Armistice- on this day One Hundred years ago saw the end of hostilities of The Great War. A global conflict whose influence ripples to this day. Tragic in outcome; it saw the loss of a generation through industrialized warfare, epidemic disease, boundary reconfiguration, and political & societal upheaval.
Posted on November 11, 2018 at 11:00 am in 10's, History, Military, Photography, Triumph Motorcycle | RSS feed | Reply | Trackback URL
I saw this post on this special day and immediately thought of the attached song, perhaps THE song of the UK services.
Sadly in recent years it seems to have been dropped by the UK Military, for whatever reason, from the march-past after the service at the Cenotaph, which is the UK centre-piece as you know.
This infuriated me when I began to notice some few years ago, and it wasn’t played this year either.!
The b#gger led off with “Tipperary”.. which is fine but..
Another protest letter to Country Life then.
Try this, the real deal, the original, with fab photo’s.
100 years, imagine that.
Happy days, better days now, mostly.
Regards
Bill
Trust both are well xx
The wartime songs from the ‘teens were so poignant. The front was an afternoon boat ride and train journey from home… so near yet too far…
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