Monday 28 October 2013

Of Poppies and Bleuets

Of Poppies and Bleuets
The month of November brings the annual  commemoration of the Armistice, which brought an end to the First World War. This war officially ended on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, and it is a long established custom to hold a simple ceremony of remembrance  at the local village monument, dedicated to those who died in that war and succeeding wars.
Read more in the Patrimoine label, a post by Ross Jenkins