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8F No.90733 named 'Remembrance Lest we Forget' - 7th November 2009

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  1. steamingyorkshire

    steamingyorkshire Well-Known Member

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    Well it's that time of year again and the name plates were out again for WD 8F No.90733 on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway for Remembrance Sunday.

    I've uploaded part of today's footage and i'll place the remainder on the "2009 at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway" DVD which will be released on the 7th December. More details are available here

    Footage Available Here

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    Is this a permenant name for the engine or are plates just wheeled out at this time of year ? verry appropriate choice for a WD and would improve it's appeal to joe public on normal operating days, hopefully they still go missing at gala time
     
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    There just worn on the weekend of Remembrance Sunday and should be removed before it's next running turn.
     
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    Any idea which loco will be used this year. Remembrance day is the coming 13th, the Cenotaph ceremony being on the 18th.

    "Arras, Paschendale, the Somme and Ypres, are not just place names in history books of the war. They are real.Luckily I survived. I remember the lice, the mud, the frozen feet and sleeping out with the horses. But most of all I remember riding out in support of the infantry after the battle of Arras and looking at hundreds and hundreds of young dead Scottish soldiers. They had been machine gunned, slaughtered. It was the most horrible thing. It was an Easter Sunday"

    My late uncle's words, Alfred Henn. Despite all this he lived to 103
     
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    My father in law was also out there but refused to speak about it.
     
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    Funnily enough my uncle was the same until his later life. It turned him totally against religion and never attended the Cenotaph or a ceremony to award him the The Crois de Guerre . He did however remain a long life friend of a German soldier and his family who he was guarding as a POW. He was finally persuaded by his daughters to take part in a BBC series as being one of the last survivors along with Harry Patch and others. I was with him two weeks before he passed away, his memory being amazingly crystal clear. I loved visiting him as a boy as he was a cabinet maker and antique restorer, and his workshop was next to the GWR line from Birmingham to Paddington. Happy days. I will think about our fallen military on the day.
     
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