Dying Far From Home

Interviewer: When you think of Remembrance Day, November 11th, what does this day mean to you? Well, one thing it means is that I remember every place we stopped there was a little cemetery and the padre buried the people who died that day. And most times there weren’t anybody there, but the people who were looking after it because everybody was working. But I know that everywhere there was a cemetery and finding all these bodies of course removed and in the beautiful, beautiful cemeteries that we have today run by the British Commonwealth. No not the British Commonwealth anymore. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was the most beautiful cemetery, but I think of those, I think of the dying and so far away from home. You know, when I think of all the people who still suffer from the effects of that war, because I think there still must be quite a number of them in hospital and at home. I think of those people.