2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

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PipneyJane said:

Just a reminder that Monday is Remembrance Day.  If you have any names to add to the War Memorial, please share them.  I have submissions from @thriftwizard and @Pollywallydoodle.  

Also, a question for both Polly and Thriftwizard: do you want me to share their stories or just list their names?

- Pip

Please add Trooper Ronald Verdun Bell, aged 26, my grandfather’s younger brother. He must have been born at the time of Verdun. His ship was bombed en route to North Africa with the 17th/21th Lancers in the next war.

I’ve just made the connection that his older brother (my grandfather) and sister lived next door to each other a few doors down from the village church. They must have passed the war memorial with his name almost every day.

PollyWollyDoodle

Oh, by all means share the story, such as it is - I thought you might have too many names to have room for that. 

MrsCD

Please could we add..
Sapper Daryn Roy, of 21 Engineer Regiment, who died in Afghanistan on 3rd May 2010. 
His vehicle was blown up by an IED while travelling in convoy from Camp Bastion to Patrol Base Pimon. They were to meet and provide protection for civilian vehicles carrying engineering stores. You can read about him on gov.uk armed forces pages.
Growing up, he lived opposite our house, and was a similar age to our two girls. He was a lovely lad, and all the village turned out for his funeral, which showed how much he was liked. RIP Daryn.

thriftwizard

Also Trooper Andy Howarth, also a Lancer, died 18/09/2010 in Afghanistan. One of DS2's best friends at first school, with a grin & a sparkle in his eyes that lit up many a party here. 

And by all means share my great-uncle's story, such as it is. We'll never know the full story.

PipneyJane

The War Memorial

You already know some of the stories, here are the others:

Isaac Lazarus and Emanual Davis were my paternal and maternal great uncles.  Both died at Gallipoli.  Manny’s cousin, Leonie Keyzor survived the War and was awarded the VC for his courage during the Battle of Lone Pine.  “Keyzor caught Turkish bombs as though they were cricket balls and threw them back at the enemy.”  [The Sydney Sun, Sydney, 13 October 1951, p 2]

@Thriftwizard's great-uncle Flight-Sergeant John Napier Hall, aged just 21... "killed in an aviation accident in an experimental Halifax bomber near Thirsk, Yorkshire, Monday 13th January 1941. It was such a silly accident - put down to someone leaving the fuel-filler cap off - and they were just testing the fuel consumption. He was - they all were, I believe - a scientist. All killed... sabotage was suspected but never investigated, as far as my cousin could find out.".

@Pollywollydoodle's great uncle Alfred Wright, died at Ypres on 31 October 1917. He was 33 years old. Alfred and Olive had been married for seven years and had five-year old twins. Olive never remarried, and lived for another fifty-five years. 


LEST WE FORGET

- Pip

PollyWollyDoodle

Thank you, Pip 

thriftwizard

Thank you, @PipneyJane - that's given me a real moment of remembrance (not that I ever knew my great-uncle!) tinged with an earnest wish for lasting peace...

potplant

Thank you, Pip.  It's very moving.  My father survived the war -- he was in the Raiding Support Regiment  and fought in Anzio in Italy. There was a lot he didn't tell us children,  but  I remember him describing walking up to the observation post on the front line where he'd been sent, knowing that the two lieutenants there before him had both been killed.  He was a keen naturalist, and on the way saw a Purple Emperor butterfly, very rare- and told himself that if he died, at least he would have seen a Purple Emperor. 

Cherryfudge

Thanks Pip.

Lest we forget.

Nelliegrace

I bought 2 pairs of woolly socks from TKMaxx for a Christmas present. 
I have ordered a pair of sheepskin lined suede toggle boots, (5 coupons,) for Christmas. I can’t remember when I bought boots last. The soles of my old Clarke’s ones turned to dust leaving me in wet socks with flapping uppers. These are seconds with a slight scuff, from Jacobs and Dalton. With our dog, there will be more scuffs soon. £40 spent.
I remember when country women wore standard, warm suede short boots with a zip up the front. 



Coupons used,
6 on cotton yarn,
5 on a pair of shorts, in the sales, for next summer.
3 on 3 pairs of socks.
2 on 2 pairs of socks,
5 on sheepskin-lined, suede boots for Christmas.

21 coupons used. 

I wasn’t going to buy any new clothes this year.