#UK Remembrance Day

[rockyp77mk3]

In memory of all the UK troops who fell defending freedom. Rest in well deserved peace, cousins.

Honors.

[binduspoint]

Honoring Heroes: A Global Perspective on Memorial Days and Martyrs' Commemorations

Introduction Across the world, nations set aside special days to honor and remember their military personnel and martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for their country. These observances not only pay tribute to the bravery and dedication of soldiers but also remind us of the profound impact of their sacrifices on our freedoms and way of life. This article explores how different countries…

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[vox-anglosphere]

Poppies

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Okay but this is actually hillarious. Right wing thugs fighting with the police on remembrance Sunday because the police have surrounded the cenotaph on Suella Braverman's orders because she was "concerned" about the pro Palestine march.

Fascists fighting fascists.

[original-username42]

As an Irish person I can't watch British tv during November, seeing those fucking poppies just boils my blood too much. The remembrance poppy is a hate and fascistic symbol and theres no way to convince me otherwise. When I see British news presenters or talk show hosts wearing the poppy its the same to me as a swastika armband or a nazi party button. If you as someone in the commonwealth (Canada is just as guilty of this) wear a poppy you support genocide and imperialism, theres no excuse.

[dopescissorscashwagon]

It’s Day 36 of Verity's futile one-woman crusade to keep real images popping up on your feed rather than AI.

It’s Remembrance Day in the UK today. 11/11. I’ve see a lot of AI generated poppy images the last few days so I felt it appropriate to share a real poppy field. Lest We Forget.

📸 by @veritymilligan

[kate-royal-style-world]

A Royal Recycling (part 315)

Catherine Walker

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[georgefairbrother]

The Imperial War Museum's oral history archive was sampled for a great series on BBC Radio Four in 2014, Voices of the First World War, presented by Dan Snow.

One sequence of recollections taught us that, in the early part of the war, the British military hierarchy was representative of the class divide within civilian society, not just between officers and the ranks, but just as pronounced between senior and junior officers, with rigid codes of priority and segregation even within the officers' mess.

"...At that time, our officers were practically all ex public school boys, and we had great respect for them. I think the officers regarded the men as quite a separate sort of human being really, it's obvious really, you’ve got to have that to get discipline..."

"...You've got to remember that the difference between officers and other ranks in the regular army, and in the territorials, was much greater than it is now. An officer in the regular army, to be in some regiments, had to have at least five or six hundred a year (private income); to be in the Guards he’d have to have a thousand a year at least…"

"...(The officers) were put up, they had baths, and God knows what, they had everything laid on for them. We regarded that as only natural..."

"...They were officers, you had to recognise that, but apart from that, off parade, they’d come to see if you was all right, wherever you were..."

In his narrative, Dan Snow pointed out that the most dangerous job in the army was being a junior officer. As the war progressed, class barriers began to crumble.

"…The officers didn't last very long, they seemed to come and go, we seemed to have heavier casualties amongst officers than any other…"

"…They'd got to make them up from somewhere, they’d run out of all the public schoolboys and blokes from the universities who had done a bit of OTC training, and they were coming down to the best territorial battalions…most of the (officers) by 1917 had served in the ranks…"

"...Later on, anyone who could do their twice-times table could become an officer..."

According to Imperial War Museum oral historian, Peter Hart, other ranks weren’t always comfortable with one of their own being promoted, for reasons of a little reverse snobbery, but also for more pragmatic reasons;

"...Those people, especially former NCOs, would know all the tricks of the trade, they’d been private soldiers themselves and knew when they were up to no good..."

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[grandsoultaco]

[libdeminomenon]

It’s the little things - the camera zooming in on Nigel Farage instead of Carla Denyer. (Even though Reform UK got more votes in the GE, the Greens have more actual power in local councils.) The media has always given Farage a disproportionate amount of airtime when all he does is produce hot air.