Anzac Day 25th April....

 

Anzac Day remembers all Australian and New Zealand soldiers who served and died in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. 

I always think of the Cherry blossom usually in bloom on this Memorial Day. Today I took the Jeep out a drive to park up looking over East Lothian, There are ANZAC soldiers war graves in East Lothian, Pilots based at the airbases here - RAF Drem and RAF East Fortune with war graves at Dirleton.

Young men , really just boys who travelled from the other side of the world to be trained and sadly for many their lives taken at such a young age. training accidents claimed the lives of many, and our local Lammermuir Hills are covered in wreck sites and memorials, like the Beaufighter crash sight we visited the previous weekend...

Gone but not forgotten...

What a lot of folk don't know when the story of the horror of the WW1 Gallipoli Campaign is told and the loss of lives is that along with ANZAC troops there was also French and British troops that fought in what has often been described as one of the most horrific battles of any war.

My great Grandfather was one Scot who fought there in the trenches... and survived. Our family has the War records of his time serving there...

I previously wrote a blog post about these war records and you can read it here;

http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2018/11/ww1-day-guns-fell-silent.html

Least we forget...

More soon...