Hello, Folks. As we do at this time every year on this List, and whether you call it Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day, please feel free to post your memories of warriors either lost or returned, who served or who are still serving, of any country and any conflict, and of civilians lost because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember my father, Lt.Col. Gordon M. Wyant (b. Günter Maximilian Weiss), who served in the RAMC in WWII, and my uncle, Sgt. Edgar T. Wyant (b. Egon Weiss), who served in Italy with the 849th Signal Infantry Service, U.S. Army. I remember my grandfather's younger brother, Gefr. Arthur Weiss, 87th Reserve Infantry Regiment of Mainz, who was killed near Cernay-en-Dormois, France, on 15 May/1915 (Pesach) fighting for his country. I remember all my Suffolk uncles who served in British forces in WWII. Two years ago, I tried to find Arthur's grave in three immaculately kept German war cemeteries near Cernay-en-Dormois but could not. Each cemetery also had a mass plot holding hundreds and hundreds of unnamed German war dead from nearby battles of WWI. I can only assume he is resting in one of those. I also stood on Juno Beach, remembering all the Canadians who stormed ashore at that place on 6 Jun/1944, many of whom now rest in the Canadian war cemetery at Beny-sur-Mer, a few kilometres inland, under the quiet shade of Canadian maple trees. May they rest in peace. Looking at the world today and the increasing rise of racism, populism, nationalism, protectionism or fascism in many countries, led by "strongmen", both western and non-western, I sometimes fear they died in vain. And I remember all the members of my extended family who perished in the Holocaust. Lest we forget. Peter SUFFOLK List Admin.

In memory of Clarence Walter Smith, nephew of my Great Grandmother, died at Loos 26.9.1915, aged 23. My Great Uncle, Daniel Gant, died on the Somme, 20.7.1916, aged 36. His nephew, my second cousin, Robert Thomas Lloyd, died on the Somme 15.7.1916, aged 18. Also, my second cousin, Leonard Herbert Emsden, D.C.M. who returned home after a distinguished career in the Royal Flying Corps. Daniel, Robert and Leonard were all descended from Robert Gant and Mary Ann Gant (formerly Hiskey) of Elmsett, Suffolk. Christine Woodall <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3345543918821653&set=a.442552259120848&type=3&eid=ARD2c9QsssQ5CGBM2s7KRPImC3u-Xt-F8mzCrFtw0xphUfquPSeWLnaiBscZfXnsOsZJfBM5_My0qEg1> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Dudley Diaper <dudley@fivers.plus.com> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 8:48:41 PM To: suffolk@rootsweb.com <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Subject: [SFK-UK] Re: Armistce/Remembrance/Veterans' Day I am remembering my great uncle John Dolby Diaper, a 19 year old Royal Navy rating who died in 1918 after enemy bombing of his barracks. Also my cousin Lionel Claude Nathaniel Jacob, an engineer of 28 who disappeared in the submarine Parthian in the Mediterranean in 1943. Dudley Diaper -----Original Message----- From: P. S. Wyant [mailto:wyants@sasktel.net] Sent: 10 November 2019 15:50 To: suffolk@rootsweb.com Subject: [SFK-UK] Armistce/Remembrance/Veterans' Day Hello, Folks. As we do at this time every year on this List, and whether you call it Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day, please feel free to post your memories of warriors either lost or returned, who served or who are still serving, of any country and any conflict, and of civilians lost because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember my father, Lt.Col. Gordon M. Wyant (b. Günter Maximilian Weiss), who served in the RAMC in WWII, and my uncle, Sgt. Edgar T. Wyant (b. Egon Weiss), who served in Italy with the 849th Signal Infantry Service, U.S. Army. I remember my grandfather's younger brother, Gefr. Arthur Weiss, 87th Reserve Infantry Regiment of Mainz, who was killed near Cernay-en-Dormois, France, on 15 May/1915 (Pesach) fighting for his country. I remember all my Suffolk uncles who served in British forces in WWII. Two years ago, I tried to find Arthur's grave in three immaculately kept German war cemeteries near Cernay-en-Dormois but could not. Each cemetery also had a mass plot holding hundreds and hundreds of unnamed German war dead from nearby battles of WWI. I can only assume he is resting in one of those. I also stood on Juno Beach, remembering all the Canadians who stormed ashore at that place on 6 Jun/1944, many of whom now rest in the Canadian war cemetery at Beny-sur-Mer, a few kilometres inland, under the quiet shade of Canadian maple trees. May they rest in peace. Looking at the world today and the increasing rise of racism, populism, nationalism, protectionism or fascism in many countries, led by "strongmen", both western and non-western, I sometimes fear they died in vain. And I remember all the members of my extended family who perished in the Holocaust. Lest we forget. Peter SUFFOLK List Admin. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/suffolk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Thank you, Peter. My father's uncle Arthur George Harrison, killed in May 1918, commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial which I visited a few years ago. My mother's cousin Andrew Newton Haig, killed at Gallipoli, commemorated on the Helles Memorial. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Joy Dean On 10/11/2019 15:50, P. S. Wyant wrote: > Hello, Folks. > > As we do at this time every year on this List, and whether you call it Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day, please feel free to post your memories of warriors either lost or returned, who served or who are still serving, of any country and any conflict, and of civilians lost because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. > > I remember my father, Lt.Col. Gordon M. Wyant (b. Günter Maximilian Weiss), who served in the RAMC in WWII, and my uncle, Sgt. Edgar T. Wyant (b. Egon Weiss), who served in Italy with the 849th Signal Infantry Service, U.S. Army. I remember my grandfather's younger brother, Gefr. Arthur Weiss, 87th Reserve Infantry Regiment of Mainz, who was killed near Cernay-en-Dormois, France, on 15 May/1915 (Pesach) fighting for his country. I remember all my Suffolk uncles who served in British forces in WWII. > > Two years ago, I tried to find Arthur's grave in three immaculately kept German war cemeteries near Cernay-en-Dormois but could not. Each cemetery also had a mass plot holding hundreds and hundreds of unnamed German war dead from nearby battles of WWI. I can only assume he is resting in one of those. > > I also stood on Juno Beach, remembering all the Canadians who stormed ashore at that place on 6 Jun/1944, many of whom now rest in the Canadian war cemetery at Beny-sur-Mer, a few kilometres inland, under the quiet shade of Canadian maple trees. May they rest in peace. Looking at the world today and the increasing rise of racism, populism, nationalism, protectionism or fascism in many countries, led by "strongmen", both western and non-western, I sometimes fear they died in vain. > > And I remember all the members of my extended family who perished in the Holocaust. > > Lest we forget. > > Peter > SUFFOLK List Admin. > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/suffolk@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

I am remembering my great uncle John Dolby Diaper, a 19 year old Royal Navy rating who died in 1918 after enemy bombing of his barracks. Also my cousin Lionel Claude Nathaniel Jacob, an engineer of 28 who disappeared in the submarine Parthian in the Mediterranean in 1943. Dudley Diaper -----Original Message----- From: P. S. Wyant [mailto:wyants@sasktel.net] Sent: 10 November 2019 15:50 To: suffolk@rootsweb.com Subject: [SFK-UK] Armistce/Remembrance/Veterans' Day Hello, Folks. As we do at this time every year on this List, and whether you call it Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day, please feel free to post your memories of warriors either lost or returned, who served or who are still serving, of any country and any conflict, and of civilians lost because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember my father, Lt.Col. Gordon M. Wyant (b. Günter Maximilian Weiss), who served in the RAMC in WWII, and my uncle, Sgt. Edgar T. Wyant (b. Egon Weiss), who served in Italy with the 849th Signal Infantry Service, U.S. Army. I remember my grandfather's younger brother, Gefr. Arthur Weiss, 87th Reserve Infantry Regiment of Mainz, who was killed near Cernay-en-Dormois, France, on 15 May/1915 (Pesach) fighting for his country. I remember all my Suffolk uncles who served in British forces in WWII. Two years ago, I tried to find Arthur's grave in three immaculately kept German war cemeteries near Cernay-en-Dormois but could not. Each cemetery also had a mass plot holding hundreds and hundreds of unnamed German war dead from nearby battles of WWI. I can only assume he is resting in one of those. I also stood on Juno Beach, remembering all the Canadians who stormed ashore at that place on 6 Jun/1944, many of whom now rest in the Canadian war cemetery at Beny-sur-Mer, a few kilometres inland, under the quiet shade of Canadian maple trees. May they rest in peace. Looking at the world today and the increasing rise of racism, populism, nationalism, protectionism or fascism in many countries, led by "strongmen", both western and non-western, I sometimes fear they died in vain. And I remember all the members of my extended family who perished in the Holocaust. Lest we forget. Peter SUFFOLK List Admin.

Remembering my uncle Ft Sgt Michael Rand, age 19, and the rest of the crew of EH977, a Stirling bomber which crashed at Bassingham, Lincs on 5th Nov 1944 while returning from a night training flight killing them all. Adrian

I remember my paternal grandfather Henry GOULD Royal Field Artillery who survived but who was shot in 1918. My maternal grandfather Alfred Harry JAY Sapper Royal Engineers also survived but died prematurely in 1940. My great uncle Ernest John PARMENTER Essex Regt. then Machine Gun Corps. killed in France January 1919 clearing German ordnance. My great grand uncle Alfred JAY killed in action, Belgium July 1918 Ivan Gould Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/suffolk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community