A soft sorrow of Remembrance fills the fine lines between allegiance and duty. For those who went to war, their lives might have been bright with futures and a family.
Now their sacrifice makes it all the more harder to bear. As the Commonwealth War Graves Commission urges people to share their stories, such loss is brought to life like never before. There’s Nora Caveney, a cotton bobbin winder from Todmorden, who was the first ATS service woman to be killed in the Second World War. Lt James Trevor Riley, captain of his school cricket team in Halifax, whose father was sent hundreds of letters detailing his kindness and bravery after his death.
We all need reminding, every now and then, that war is awful.” In Sheffield, there’s Pt William Wyatt Bagshawe, a student of the Slade School of Art. Born in Netheredge, he had shown great promise in drawing from an early age. While safe at a rail-head, he requested a return to his own battalion. He was killed trying to cross enemy wire. The stories come thick and fast, submitted from across the county.
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