Lest we forget

When we drive to the orthodontist we often take the route past the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Brockenhurst. Today, for the first time, I stopped and took a look around.



WWI. Many of them ridiculously young. Almost all New Zealanders with a few Indians, including a chap who came over to help care for the wounded at a local hospital. I was choked up enough about that, but the names finished me off, names the same as my characters or those (like William Marshall) from books I love.

Wearing my poppy with renewed pride...