Geriatric OE: A bit more history...

Tuesday 12 March 2013

A bit more history...

Happy Birthday to The Man. Yes that’s right grandsons birthday yesterday, his today.

Pretty cool don’t you think

I can do better though. My Dad’s birthday was the day before mine, and my youngest daughter’s is the day after mine and at the end of the same month is my sons.

Now that’s what I call togetherness.

Talking….er writing about my Dad reminded me of something I discovered today.

By now you will know, or you would if you were regulars reader, that I am fairly heavily into my genealogy.

I've just been looking at my grandfather’s details and discovered that not only had my Dad been at Warley Barracks in Brentwood , but my grandfather too. Both were in the Essex Regiment.
I'm currently reading through the WWI regimental war diary of the 11th Esssex. Very hard to comprehend what my grandfather went through

He was Cplr GA Harvey of Plaistow, Port of London Authority worker, enlisted 21 Sept 1914, wounded 6 Jan 1917

from website The Essex Regiment in 1914-1918)
11th (Service) Battalion
Formed at Warley in September 1914 as part of K3 and came under orders of 71st Brigade in 24th Division. Moved to Shoreham and then to billets in Brighton in January 1915. Returned to Shoreham in March and then on to Blackdown in June 1915.

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I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.

I remember, I remember
The roses red and white,
The violets and the lily cups--
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday,--
The tree is living yet!

I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
The summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow.

I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.

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