Remembrance Sunday - is there anyone you particularly remember?

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I remember three - two 19 year olds and a 20 year old killed in the first gulf war 1991. The brother of one was in my class at school.

RIP

My grandfather who survived WW2. He went by boat around Africa to India. My father didn't meet his father for 18 months. I remember everything he went through, and also my nanny having a baby alone. Raising her son alone until he came back. Having had my own kids really puts this sacrifice into perspective. Wars impact the whole of society.

Someone I was at university with - Tom Mildinhall. We weren’t the same college / course but had friends in common. He was killed in Basra in 2006 and I remember him specifically each Remembrance Sunday.

my Scottish grandfather who i never met as he died in italy in WW2 he was in the navy , my father who served in REME during WW2 he died when i was nine so i never got to talk to him as an adult about his war service, my mom was in the ATS during WW2

Thank you for starting this thread. Very very sad but also interesting to read everyone's comments.

Rabbits, what a lovely photo of a beautiful young man.

My great grandfather who survived WW1 then died of Spanish Flu within a year.

My grandad who fought all through (and survived) WW1, he died long before I was born. My paternal uncle who fought in WW2 and DP's dad who fought in the Korean War.

My grandfather. Imprisoned at Changi and then forced to work on the Burma Railway.

He survived and made it home, riddled with disease and broken in many ways.

My grandmother kept all of his papers and medals, including the ‘missing presumed dead’ telegram.

Major Josh ‘JJ’ Bowman

Friend and fellow officer of my husband.....

Shot by an Afghanistan soldier whilst he was sleeping....

www.gov.uk/government/fatalities/major-james-joshua-bowman-lieutenant-neal-turkington-and-corporal-arjun-purja-pun-killed-in-afghanistan

I remember we caught up with him in a pub in Shrivenham a few months before he deployed..

All SOE operatives. And my grandad who worked as a doctor in London throughout the Blitz.

My Great, Great Uncle Ernest who died in France aged 21 in 1916. He is buried there.

My great grandfather who fought and was wounded in the First World War but survived and returned home. I’m immensely privileged to have a notebook containing his first hand account of his time in the War, and this summer went on holiday to Belgium and Northern France to visit and pay my respects at the places where he fought, a hugely moving experience.

Also 2nd Lt Joanna Dyer, a school and university friend, killed in Basra in April 2007. Jo was truly one of a kind as all the tributes after her death proved (she was at Sandhurst with and became close friends with Prince William, so her death was quite “high profile” in the press). I’ll never forget seeing the news flash up on the TV. She was only 24, what a waste.

Both grandfathers, a great uncle who was lost in Belgium, my father who went to the Falklands. And a very dear friend who lost her brother in Afghanistan jsanderson

My uncle, aged 20, a navigator in a Lancaster Bomber, who was shot down and killed over Germany.
Also, a great uncle, whom I know very little about, who was killed on the Western Front in WW1.