Remembrance Sunday 2023

A small village in North Yorkshire remembers (see below, the pictures say it all): 

The community knitted the poppies.

Researched the names.

Found the faded photographs.

Across two world wars.

And remembered.

Lest we forget.

Remembrance Sunday 2022

There is a village in North Yorkshire, England .. like so many other small villages and places in the UK that remembers those who made the sacrifice (see below, the hand knitted poppies from the community, mostly red, but white, purple and black too - are planted): 

Individual soldiers were researched and remembered (see below, the old photographs are haunting, putting a face to a chiselled name): 

The lawn of the church bleeds red (see below, from the font of the War Memorial across the well-cut grass): 

The ghosts stand-to, guarding the poppies (see below, and stop the passer-by in their tracks): 

There are so many to be named (see below, from all walks of life): 

From the world wars and more modern wars (see below, it never seems to stop):

It is a very moving place where people's thoughts turn to the past (see below, I am left wondering how far we have actually come): 

And this is but one of the many villages, of the many towns and of the many cities in the UK and wider Commonwealth and connected world (see below, it touches us all): 

Remembrance and respect.

Let We Forget

The local church memorial (see below, each one a locally knitted poppy): 

If it stops and makes you think then I think it has done its job.

Remembrance Sunday and the following11th November

 Lest we forget ...

Those ...

Who sacrificed their all ..

For our freedom ...

And who still serve as an example to us all.