On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:32:06 -0600, Hank Rogers >
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>> Sad 100th anniversary today - although it was 100 years ago last
>> Sunday that my paternal grandfather was killed and buried in France
>> next to Wilfred Owen.
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>So, your gramps was killed during the last week of WW1?
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>It's a tough break, being so damn close to the end.
>
>I think I read that the last person killed was on the morning of the
>11th, just hours short of making it through alive.
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>
Yes, a man from Nova Scotia was killed by a German sniper just before
the bells rang for the Armistice, about two minutes before. There is
a new statue for him at Mons (he was the last Commonwealth soldier
killed) which is very lovely, looks like a giant tear drop or drip of
blood.