by Northern Lass » Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:16 am
"Their name Liveth Forever"
As we approach 2014 it will be 100 years since World War One.
So many lost their lives.
So many lost sons, husbands, and brothers ....
If your Ancestor is from the Black Country Area please put a post on this thread.
Please just post a few lines with their details and hopefully the list will grow.
Just one post please per ancestor, we will not run with researching the ancestor on this thread.
If anyone adds to this thread we have underway could they add in the subject the name
of ancestor with Surname in Caps first then christian name and reg and no if poss
I would like to try and add these names to a Roll of honour for our BCC get together next year in JULY.
I will start off with My Great Grandfather
We can time allowing add to Black Country Connections too.
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke 1887-1915