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“Lights out” event marked 100 years ceremonies since Britain entered World War One
A candle-lit vigil at Westminster Abbey and a “lights out” event have concluded a day of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain entered World War One. People were invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00 BST, the time war was declared on 4 August 1914. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules100 years ago today at noon on August 5, 1914, a gun crew stationed at Fort Nepean on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of my home city of Melbourne fired across the bow of German cargo steamer SS Pfalz.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0The first shot fired by the Allies in WW1.
We will remember..
Aug 05th, 2014 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I was remembering my grandfather who served from 14 - 18 and survived.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you can call it that?
I was thinking about my paternal grandfather who lost his life on HMS Begonia off the coast of Casablanca on 6th October 1917. God bless him!
Aug 05th, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Definitely a time for reflection, contemplation and most of all to remember the young men who fought in terrible conditions, many of them dying on the battlefields, or later succumbing to their wounds, all for the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We WILL remember them.”
For our tomorrow, they gave their today........ Hero's every one of them
Aug 05th, 2014 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A friend of our family who taught me to shoot his 0.22rf lr bolt action Webley survived the Great War and afterwards earned a living with his commercial allotment adjacent to his house.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He had been gassed twice and despite his outdoor occupation he died in 1962 aged just 65 but he looked like he was 80: he joined up when he was 17.
Great guy, I often think about 'Uncle Jack' and his rifle, I never did find out what happened to it.
My great uncle died aboard the (ironically named) HMS Good Hope, when she sank with all hands, at the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile, November 1914. In 1954 I sailed over the same area, as a boy seaman-gunner (16 years old ) aboard HMS Superb, without knowing, then, that my uncle had died there.
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