Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Remembering all especially those in our family

I reflect today on the sacrifices made by so many, but especially on my own families sacrifice thru the years:

Our Family Roll of Honour

David Pullen: 1813-90 (51st Regiment of Foot) Storming of Rangoon 1847

John Robt Townsend: 1842 - 1932 (Queens Own Gloucester Hussars)

Frank Edwin Powell: 1892 - 1979 (Royal Navy) Served on HMS Victory

Henry Albert Sanders: 1877 - 1953 (Royal Artillery) fought in the Boar War

Charles Hardaker - killed - 22 Aug 1915 (AIF) Gallipoli, Turkey

Patrick McBride - killed - 26 Oct 1915 (DLI) Houplines, France

Francis Trudden - killed - 15 Oct 1916 (DLI) Somme, France

Denis Trudden - lost - 6 April 1917 (SS Powhatan) Atlantic

Arthur Merrell - killed - 12 April 1917 (Gloucester Regiment) Arras, France

George Richards- killed - 2 Aug 1917 (South Wales Borderers) Ypres, Belgium

Charles Penfold- killed - 12 April 1918 (Royal Fusiliers) Hazebrouck, France

George Williams: 1889 - 1965 (North Somerset Yeomanry) Prisoner of War

John J Townsend: 1873 - 1959 (AIF)

William T Jackman: 1882 - 1966 (Royal Fusiliers)

Patrick Clifford - lost - 1st Feb 1943 (HMS Welshman) sunk by U boat 617 in Tripoli Harbour, Libya

Albert G Godwin: 1912-98 (Royal Engineers) captured by Japanese in Hong Kong 1940, survived the sinking of the Lisbon Maru, by an American submarine, and survived the Japanese prison of war camp.

Francis Clifford: 1933 - 2001 (Royal Corps of Transport) served in Malaya and Aden

The family appear to litter the worlds battlefields!

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