#armistice day

[petermorwood]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

- Wilfred Owen

An ex-comrade in arms from my former regiment forwarded me this video. It’s been doing the rounds amongst veterans. It doesn’t need any explanation.

Lest we forget...

[bantarleton]

The war memorial in Abertillery, South Wales.

[litanumb]

En ce 11 Novembre, voici une compilation de quelques dessins sur le thème de la Grande Guerre. Plus de dessins sur mon Instagram: @/litanumb

[newyorkthegoldenage]

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, World War I came to an end. New Yorkers celebrated with their usual gusto.

Photo: Associated Press via the NY Times

[octobersociety]

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we have given our today.”

[asparklethatisblue]

A white poppy to commemorate the dead of a conflict and vow to keep it from happening again. So for this year’s Armistice Day I’m sure it’s the spirit of the thing to call for a Ceasefire Now

[lionofchaeronea]

Bully, Bruce Bairnsfather, 1914-18

[davbertieloml]

The Duke of Edinburgh and his father-in-law, King George VI attending Armistice Day (Remembrance Day), 1948 🌺

[skull-designs]

Armistice Day

The Free French Cemetery.

Poignantly, the final photo shows the graves of Christian, Muslim and Jewish people who fought and died together.

Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey.

[petermorwood]

*****

The "Willie McBride, who was only 19" of Eric Bogle's song "No Man's Land / The Green Fields of France" is also an Unknown Soldier.

Bogle used that name and age because they rhymed - McBrIDE / gravesIDE and nineTEEN / sixTEEN - not because they were real, and despite various claims, neither of the two McBride headstones in Authuile Military Cemetery are the man in the song.

Here's a Radio New Zealand interview where Bogle says so himself - it's from 11:50 to 15:08.

Inaccuracy or artistic license, it doesn't blunt the edge of those lyrics one little bit. There are several variants: I chose this one.

"Well, how do you do, Private William McBride, Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside? And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun, I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done. And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? .... So I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride, Did the young lads who lie here even know why they died? When they served with the Colours and answered 'The Cause' Did they really believe that their war would end wars? For the sorrow, the suffering, the terror, the pain, The killing, the dying, were all done in vain, Because, Willie McBride, they've all happened again. And again, and again, and again, and again..."

Illustrations by Dave H of Remembrance Art.

[citizenscreen]

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends.

#ArmisticeDay

[bantarleton]

The burial of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey, November 11th 1920.

[seventhraggedtiger]

A reminder that war is pointless, and the silence and birdsong is all that the forests should hear. Not gunshots and bombs.

R.I.P to those poor souls in WW1 who lost their lives. They shall always be remembered. ❤️

[princesscatherineblog]

Remembrance Sunday

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Pedestrians and traffic at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. come to a halt for a minute of silence at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1936.

Photo: Wurts Bros. via MCNY