Remembrance Day

[Boater]

Today is Remembrance Sunday...

RIP all the soldiers that have died protecting our country from ww1 to the wars that are happening today..

Boater

[smokie36]

[Kan Win]

November is the time of the year when we wear a red poppy in memory of those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One.

At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years continuous warfare.

Remembrance Day is on 11 November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. At one time the day was known as Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain.

The "Last Post" is traditionally played to introduce the two minute silence in Remembance Day ceremonies. It is usually ' played on a bugle. (In military life, 'The Last Post' marks the end of the day and the final farewell.)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CU...emembrance.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CU...e/poems.htm#for

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[Nignoy]

And all those forgotten souls sent on deniable operations and lost their lives and were buried on foreign soil, to name two, Taxi Tucker RASC killed 1964 Leong Nok Tha, Sapper James Box shot at 2100hours monday 29/11/1965 Ban Khud Koh Khan, re buried in Kranji war cemetary Singapore, Lest We Forget!!

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[Brigante7]

Hear Hear, I've just sat and watched the laying of the wreaths on TV with my 2 year old boy and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was crying thinking about every single soldier who has given their life so that my family and I have the freedom to moan about all the insignificant things in life and I would just like to say thank you to every soldier who has given their life and who are putting their life on the line now, Thank You.

Brigante7 & family.

[Mossfinn]

HOW RIFLEMAN BROWN CAME TO VALHALLA

To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,

Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman Joseph Brown.

With never a rent in his khaki nor smear of blood on his face,

He flung his pack from his shoulders, and made for an empty place.

The Killer-men of Valhalla looked up from the banquet-board

At the unfouled breech of his rifle, at the unfleshed point of his sword;

And the unsung dead of the trenches, the kings who have never a crown,

Demanded his pass to Valhalla from Rifleman Joseph Brown.

"Who comes, unhit, to the party?" A one-legged Corporal spoke,

And the gashed heads nodded approval through the rings of the Endless Smoke:

"Who comes for the beer and the Woodbines of the never-closed Canteen,

With the barrack-shine on his bayonet and a full-charged magazine?"

Then Rifleman Brown looked round him at the nameless men of the Line -

At the wounds of the shell and the bullet, at the burns of the bomb and mine;

At the tunics, virgin of medals but crimson-clotted with blood,

At the ankle boots and the puttees, caked stiff with the Flanders mud;

At the myriad short Lee-Enfields that crowded the rifle-rack,

Each with its blade to the sword-boss brown, and its muzzle powder-black:

And Rifleman Brown said never a word; yet he felt in the soul of his soul

His right to the beer of the lower Hall, though he came to drink of it, whole;

His right to the fags of the free Canteen, to a seat at the banquet-board,

Though he came to the men who had killed their man, with never a man to his sword.

"Who speaks for the stranger Rifleman, O boys of the free Canteen?

Who passes the chap with the unmaimed limbs and the kit that is far too clean?"

The gashed heads eyed him above their beers, the gashed lips sucked at their smoke:

There were three at the board of his own platoon, but not a man of them spoke.

His mouth was made for the tankard froth and the biting whiff of a fag,

But he knew that he might not speak for himself to the dead men who do not brag.

A gun-butt crashed on the gateway, a man came staggering in;

His head was cleft with a great red wound from the temple-bone to the chin,

His blade was dyed to the bayonet-boss with the clots that were scarcely dry;

And he cried to the men who had killed their man:

"Who passes the Rifleman? I!

By the four I slew, by the shell I stopped, if my feet be not too late,

I speak the word for Rifleman Brown that a chap may speak for his mate."

The dead of lower Valhalla, the heroes of dumb renown,

They pricked their ears to a tale of the earth as they set their tankards down.

"My mate was on sentry this evening when the General happened along

And asked what he'd do in a gas-attack,. Joe told him:

'Beat the gong.'

'What else?'

'Open fire, Sir,' Joe answered.

'Good God, man,' our General said,

'By the time you'd beaten that bloodstained gong the chances are you'd be dead.

Just think, lad.' 'Gas helmet, of course, Sir.' 'Yes, dam_n it, and gas helmet first.'

So Joe stood dumb to attention, and wondered why he'd been cursed."

The gashed heads turned to the Rifleman, and now it seemed that they knew

Why the face that had never a smear of blood was stained to the jawbones, blue.

"He was posted again at midnight." The scarred heads craned to the voice,

As the man with the blood-red bayonet spoke up for the mate of his choice.

"You know what it's like in a listening-post, the Very candles aflare,

Their bullets smacking the sand-bags, our Vickers combing your hair,

How your ears and your eyes get jumpy, till each known tuft that you scan

Moves and crawls in the shadows till you'd almost swear it was man;

You know how you peer and snuff at the night when the North-East gas-winds blow."

"By the One who made us and maimed us" quoth lower Valhalla "we know!"

"Sudden, out of the blackness, sudden as hel_l, there came

Roar and rattle of rifles, spurts of machine-gun flame;

And Joe stood up in the forward sap to try and get on to the game.

Sudden, their shells come screaming; sudden, his nostrils sniff

The sickening reek of the rotten pears, the death that kills with a whiff.

Death! and he knows it certain, as he bangs on his cartridge-case,

With the gas-cloud's claws at his windpipe and the gas cloud's wings on his face . . .

We heard his gong in our dug-out, he only whacked on it twice,

We whipped our gas-bags over our heads, and manned the step in a trice -

For the cloud would have caught us as sure as Fate if he'd taken the Staff's advice."

His head was cleft with a great red wound from the chin to the temple-bone,

But his voice was clear as a sounding gong, "I'll be damned if I'll drink alone,

Not even in lower Valhalla! Is he free of your free Canteen,

My mate who comes with the unfleshed point and the full-charged magazine?"

The gashed heads rose at the Rifleman o'er the rings of the Endless Smoke,

And loud as the roar of a thousand guns Valhalla's answer broke,

And loud as the crash of a thousand shells their tankards clashed on the board:

"He is free of the mess of the Killer-men, your mate of the unfleshed sword;

For we know the worth of his deed on earth; as we know the speed of the death

Which catches its man by the back of the throat and gives him water for breath;

As we know how the hand at the helmet-cloth may tarry seconds too long,

When the very life of the front-line trench is staked on the beat of a gong.

By the four you slew, by the case he smote, by the gray gas-cloud and the green,

We pass your mate for the Endless Smoke and the beer of the free Canteen."

In the lower hall of Valhalla, with the heroes of no renown,

With out nameless dead of the Marne and the Aisne, of Mons, and of Wipers town,

With the men who killed ere they died for us, sits Rifleman Joseph Brown.

Gilbert Frankau

Lest We Forget

[ignoramus]

Good work Kan Win.

Well said Mossfinn and Maejo Man

[MHM]

The usual dismal turnout at Kanchanaburi war cemetary

[midasthailand]

I am a little confused because it is only 9 November today? Remembrance day is on the 11th November. I attended a ceremony yesterday (8 Nov) for remembrance day at the British Embassy in Bangkok, it was well attended (full) with representatives from most countries in attendance, a large contingent from the British legion and a group from Britain that tour Thailand and Singapore every year at this time called the poppy tour, I spoke with one gentlemen that was 90 years old and was a survivor from the death railway, they held services in Kanchanaburi on 6 November and will be in Changi for the 11 Nov this year.

I guess the reason they held the ceremony on Sunday was to allow maximum attendance.

Lest we forget! They gave their today so that we could have our tomorrow.

[bkkjames]

I am a little confused because it is only 9 November today? Remembrance day is on the 11th November. I attended a ceremony yesterday (8 Nov) for remembrance day at the British Embassy in Bangkok, it was well attended (full) with representatives from most countries in attendance, a large contingent from the British legion and a group from Britain that tour Thailand and Singapore every year at this time called the poppy tour, I spoke with one gentlemen that was 90 years old and was a survivor from the death railway, they held services in Kanchanaburi on 6 November and will be in Changi for the 11 Nov this year.

I guess the reason they held the ceremony on Sunday was to allow maximum attendance.

Lest we forget! They gave their today so that we could have our tomorrow.

I agree there Midas, what happen to 11/11/11. Not convenient for the Embassy?

[Rooo]

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[midasthailand]

I am a little confused because it is only 9 November today? Remembrance day is on the 11th November. I attended a ceremony yesterday (8 Nov) for remembrance day at the British Embassy in Bangkok, it was well attended (full) with representatives from most countries in attendance, a large contingent from the British legion and a group from Britain that tour Thailand and Singapore every year at this time called the poppy tour, I spoke with one gentlemen that was 90 years old and was a survivor from the death railway, they held services in Kanchanaburi on 6 November and will be in Changi for the 11 Nov this year.

I guess the reason they held the ceremony on Sunday was to allow maximum attendance.

Lest we forget! They gave their today so that we could have our tomorrow.

I agree there Midas, what happen to 11/11/11. Not convenient for the Embassy?

I think they had the ceremony on Sunday to allow a good turnout. I believe a lot of the British legion hail from Pattaya so it made sense to the powers that be to have the ceremony commemorating 11 November on 9 Nov. The ceremony did span the 11 AM time frame and I believe the last post and the following silence was pretty close to being at 11:11 Am I am just annoyed that I couldn't hang around for the piss up as I had another appointment to attend. I did get some rather puzzled looks from Thais as I walked to the BTS in my Suit resplendent with my medals on the left breast and my fathers medals on the right breast !!

[fletchsmile]

Yes. Thank you.

[Kan Win]

I am a little confused because it is only 9 November today? Remembrance day is on the 11th November. I attended a ceremony yesterday (8 Nov) for remembrance day at the British Embassy in Bangkok, it was well attended (full) with representatives from most countries in attendance, a large contingent from the British legion and a group from Britain that tour Thailand and Singapore every year at this time called the poppy tour, I spoke with one gentlemen that was 90 years old and was a survivor from the death railway, they held services in Kanchanaburi on 6 November and will be in Changi for the 11 Nov this year.

I guess the reason they held the ceremony on Sunday was to allow maximum attendance.

Lest we forget! They gave their today so that we could have our tomorrow.

To jog your memory 'midasthailand', posted above......

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain.

Lest we forget

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[Kan Win]

The usual dismal turnout at Kanchanaburi war cemetary

Yes, but ANZAC Day is always very well supported.

As 'midasthailand' pointed out in his post above:-

I attended a ceremony yesterday (8 Nov) for remembrance day at the British Embassy in Bangkok,

they where busy in Bangkok.

Saw three or more wreaths on Sunday as I drove by and quite a few folks as well.

Just a maybe 'MHM' they could be there on this 11th in Kan.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

Edited November 9, 2009 by Kan Win

[JUDAS]

“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.”

[Mosha]

To my shame I forgot but....

In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is the second Sunday of November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November (Remembrance Day), which is the anniversary of the end of the hostilities of the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918.

In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women (principally members of the Royal British Legion), members of local armed forces regular and reserve units (Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines and Royal Marines Reserve, Army and Territorial Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Auxiliary Air Force), youth organisations (e.g. Scouts and Guides), and military cadet forces (Air cadets, Army cadets and Sea cadets). Wreaths of poppies are laid on the memorials and two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m. Church bells are usually rung "half-muffled", creating a sombre effect.

Edited November 9, 2009 by Mosha

[Basset]

The Royal British Legion Thailand were on parade with 58 members at the Remembrance Day Parade at the British Embassy yesterday Sunday the 8th November. As has now been pointed out the parade is always held on Sunday and has nothing to do with convenience to the Embassy or Legion members, we had members travel not only from Pattaya but Chiang Mai, Korat, Krabi, Udon Thani, Hua Hin, Phuket and of course Bangkok. We also have members remaining in Bangkok so they can attend and speak at a number of International Schools who are holding services over the next few days. We travel to Kanchanaburi on ANZAC Day to pay our respects and Malaysia every June to lay wreaths for the Malay Emergency.

I would like to thank all of you who have attended a Remembrance Service or purchased a Poppy as we really do need your support, at present the Legion are spending £1 million a week helping over 130,000 members of the Armed Forces Family - dependants, veterans and the bereaved and please remember we will still be looking after these people in 30 years time, we are not a short term charity.

We really could use more members in Bangkok to help with the Poppy Appeal and welfare visits, please feel free to contact me.

Many thanks

Bert

Bert Elson

Secretary, Chonburi Thailand Branch (BR3588)

Royal British Legion

Phone/Fax +66 (0) 38 361887

Mobile +66 (0) 89 8072335

Email [email protected]

www.tropicalberts.com

[Tinkelbell]

I'm proudly present my USA flag infront of my house every year on this special day ( it's on Nov. 11).

Donating to ' Disabled American Veterans' annually is my way of showing my gratitude.

For those who sacrified themselve protecting their countries, I salute you all.

You are my hero !