WW1: The Ultimate Sacrifice

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Discovering that you have people connected to you through bloodlines or through marriage that have given their life in the defense of Britain and its Commonweath is very humbling.

Knowing relatives of yours have lost their lives on foriegn fields does make you stop and think about the futility of armed conflict and how easy it is for people with differing opinions to go to war. And how making absolute decisions about your own life and the lives of others dear to you is never really in your own grasp.

I hope I have done justice to these people - all of whom gave their lives in World War One, none of whom I ever knew, all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude to that can never be repaid.

List of articles in category WW1: The Ultimate Sacrifice
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Thomas Brown, paternal relative: Battle of the Aisne September 1914 Hits: 1851
Alfred Price, maternal relative: H.M.S. Hawke October 1914 Hits: 961
Wilfred Arthur Andrews, maternal realtive: Ypres Nov 1914 Hits: 1427
Charles Priday, maternal relative: The defence of Givenchy, 20-21 December 1914 Hits: 1124
George Henry Hyde, paternal Great Uncle: Ypres May 1915 Hits: 1498
Arthur Davies Bagley, paternal relative: Gallipoli August 1915 Hits: 969
Harold Sheward, maternal relative: Gallipoli August 1915 Hits: 1283
Harold Randall, maternal relative: Ypres Salient Sept 1915 Hits: 792
George Frederick Priday, maternal relative: First Phosgene Attack, Dec 1915 Hits: 1680
Charles William Akroyd, paternal relative: First Phosgene Attack, Dec 1915 Hits: 140