Remembrance Sunday
Today in our thoughts are for members of the family who gave their lives in two world wars.
Pilot Officer Gerald Davies aged 23 of RAF 211 Squadron who was killed in action on 13th April 1941 in Greece. His remains are buried at Phaleron War Cemetery, a beautiful location in the port of Piraeus Athens. He is also commemorated on Shotton Cenotaph in Flintshire.
Also Robert McCallum Needham aged 21, of 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action on 3rd May 1917 at Arras. He has no marked grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial and on Goole Centotaph. The 'death-penny' marking his service and death in the First World War is pride of place in this house.
#remembrance #WWI #WW2 #Phaleron #Goole #wewillrememberthem
The Blenheim Boys
‘The devotion and gallantry… are beyond all praise. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava is eclipsed in brightness by these almost daily deeds of fame.’
Winston Churchill on the Blenheim Crews - Prime Minister’s Personal Minute, M.852/1, 30 August 1941
