Armistice 1918

[BucksBornNBred]

One of the programmes today had a town where 1,000 men left together and 815 of those did not return. DG

And they volunteered to protect their family, their way of life and their country. I, for one, will never forget what they did. They deserve to be honoured. May their God bless their courage and conviction x

I loved the beach art and shed a tear as that was so touching.

[bridge]

One of the programmes today had a town where 1,000 men left together and 815 of those did not return. DG

And they volunteered to protect their family, their way of life and their country. I, for one, will never forget what they did. They deserve to be honoured. May their God bless their courage and conviction x

I loved the beach art and shed a tear as that was so touching.

Patch had always felt, he wrote in The Last Fighting Tommy, that "politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder".

[BucksBornNBred]

One of the programmes today had a town where 1,000 men left together and 815 of those did not return. DG

And they volunteered to protect their family, their way of life and their country. I, for one, will never forget what they did. They deserve to be honoured. May their God bless their courage and conviction x

I loved the beach art and shed a tear as that was so touching.

Patch had always felt, he wrote in The Last Fighting Tommy, that "politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder".

I don't want to get into the rights or wrongs... the people that went to war knew nothing of that. They did what they felt was needed to protect the country and their loved ones (even if they were deceived). Don't get confused by what we know now and what they knew then. Hindsight is always 20/20.

[bridge]

Don't get confused by what we know now and what they knew then. Hindsight is always 20/20.

There's no confusion. You might just be unaware. Rosa Luxemburg and William Liebknecht led a minority of anti-war German socialists, while Russia's Bolshevik Party led by Lenin maintained a firmly anti-war position. In France, on the last day of July, the anti-war socialist leader Jaures was assassinated. On August 2nd, 1914 the largest of many anti-war rallies around Britain took place in Trafalgar Square. Four days later, with war now official, the Labour Leader shouted: "Down with the War!", declaring to its readers: "You have no quarrel with Germany. The quarrel is between the ruling classes of Europe."

In December 1914 the first of many articles demanding an end to the war was printed in Lansbury's Herald, then a weekly, whose anti-war stance had been muted since the war's outbreak. The war against the war, conducted in part through the Herald, the Labour Leader and through the smaller circulation The Socialist, Sylvi Pankhurst's Women's Dreadnought (later Workers' Dreadnought) and, from 1916, the British Socialist Party's The Call, stopped only when the war stopped.

[BucksBornNBred]

Thank you bridge for that summary - no I was not aware of all those details.

I wish a more recent Labour leader had had as much sense