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    1. [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Remembrance
    2. Marged
    3. On the day when we are celebrating the Armistice and remembering our war dead - and as we approach the REAL day of 11th November, I would like to remember both my grandfathers who died as young men with families in WW1. Able Seaman William Hughes, lost at Gallipoli age 35, leaving a widow and three children - the youngest was my mother, only four weeks old. He never saw her. It seems when his ship, the "Cornwallis", arrived at Gallipoli, after picking up ANZAC troops in Australia, he volunteered to row troops ashore, and was shot down by the Turks, who were waiting for them in the hills (my grandmother's words) Able Seaman Robert Edward Mackay Campbell Ingham, aged 35, who died off the coast of Northern Ireland when his ship the "Laurentic", was torpedoed by the Germans. He left two children, a daughter and a son - the son was my father, who was five years old at the time. By a strange coincidence these two seamen's names face each other in the basement of Liverpool Town Hall on the War Memorial Plaques. While I am alive, they will never be forgotten, even though I never knew them and I doubt there is anyone left alive now who did know them. Perhaps others on this list have names they would like to put forward, so that we can all think of them in our own way at this time. Marged

    11/09/2008 07:38:12