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After surviving the horrors of WW1, many returning soldiers, sailors and airmen were expecting the world to be a better place, where their life could return to some normality in a secure and safe environment and jobs for all. This expectation was raised by a speech by Lloyd George the day...
Bobbie or Bertie Bland died in WW2 of malaria. Me: Wasn’t it WW1 Mom?Or was it WW1? she muses.~~oo0oo~~The bird? Just holding the place till I find a relevant picture. Posted in 8_Nostalgia | Tagged ballet, Bertie Bland, born 1928, Dossie Farquhar, Harrismith, hockey, Joey ...
but the WW1 Doughboy memorial to the Birmingham boys who had gone off to fight in the fields of France and never returned which had been dedicated by the city’s Greek-American community. Another statue commemorating the American soldiers who had fought in the Spanish-American War was also d...
. The great tail had appeared to fall upon the boat, which, for the moment, was lost to view in the churning cauldron worked up by the dying whale. Soon, however, the boat was again visible, but there seemed to be no one in her. A little later, first one, and then another ...