wafflycat
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So farewell Henry Allingham. A man who lived in three centuries..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm
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Jane Smart
The Queen
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- Dunfermline Fife
What an incredible man 
ACS
Legendary Member
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- Just below the snow line
Rest in peace.
RIP seemed like a really nice chap considering what he must have been through and seen.
My Dad is coming up to 87 this year. In recent years he has started telling me about his war exploits in the Navy in WWll and I really must start recording some of his stories before its too late.
Someone has already used some of his photos and records to include in a book.
One day there will be no-one left alive who will be able to recount what happened all those years ago, not just the war but daily living.
My Dad is coming up to 87 this year. In recent years he has started telling me about his war exploits in the Navy in WWll and I really must start recording some of his stories before its too late.
Someone has already used some of his photos and records to include in a book.
One day there will be no-one left alive who will be able to recount what happened all those years ago, not just the war but daily living.
yep, as these old boys leave us, and we no longer have the physical reminder of what has gone before, it becomes ever more important that their bravery and what they endured gets recorded for future generations - in the hope that the world never makes the same mistakes again...
Hover Fly
He, him, his
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- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Just two British left now, one Canadian and one USA, and no French I believe.
Piemaster
Guru
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- UK City of Culture
News was saying one British and one Aussie?
Hover Fly
He, him, his
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- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Piemaster said:
One of the Brits lives in Australia now.
Night Train
Maker of Things
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- Greater Manchester
Sad news indeed.
It is also a shame that as that period of history starts to fall from living memory it is also being considered less important to teach it to school kids.
It is also a shame that as that period of history starts to fall from living memory it is also being considered less important to teach it to school kids.
Well, he lived each and every one of his 41,314 days (I've counted - someone had to!) to the full and made each one matter. Even in his final years he was still willingly speaking about all those events from his past. He became a symbol of continuity with the past. Well done that man!
And it is perhaps fitting that he passed his last few years at St Dunstan's, which nestles on the South Downs just outside Brighton and overlooks the English Channel. Just to show, that all those countries which once waged bitter war are not really all that far away!
And it is perhaps fitting that he passed his last few years at St Dunstan's, which nestles on the South Downs just outside Brighton and overlooks the English Channel. Just to show, that all those countries which once waged bitter war are not really all that far away!
Mayniac
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- Nottingham
Night Train said:
I don't believe this is the case. I visited The Somme in 2006 and there were a fair number of British school parties going around the battlefields and cemeteries.
Lisa21
Mooching.............
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- North Wales
My boss, an old Colonel, is 97 and you could listen to him for hours-all the things he has been through.Hes even had a book written about some of his exploits although I cant remember its title at the mo.
Grumpy old sod most of the time but a very very interesting man all the same
Grumpy old sod most of the time but a very very interesting man all the same
