In memory - Ellis Bowes - WW1

[Hamish Racing]

I am in northern France this week (still a big deal here in the UK post Brexit )

I have paid a pilgrimage to a war grave of a relative.
His name Ellis Bowes killed age 19 in the barren fields of northern France 12th March 1918
Sadly he wasn’t alone.

 

[Bayless]

Between the crosses, row on row,

 

[NutmegCT]

 

[ckeithjordan]

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

[mctriumph]

"and where have all the flowers gone, long time passing"
Mad dog