- Another Harry Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on November 8, 2019, 7:46 am
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Harry Billinge, aged 93, has just been on the BBC red sofa talking about the Normandy D Day Memorial, for which he has been a fundraiser, and his views on war and our current condition. He said that there is too much hate and that we should love one another. 22,442 men died in the Normandy landings. 'Take Jack Banks of the Durham Light Infantry. He should have been at home but had lied about his age, signing up aged 15. Having landed on D-Day, he spent the next six weeks fighting his way through the bocage before he was killed while attacking an enemy machine-gun position. He was 16. Harry Billinge always makes a point of visiting his grave in the little cemetery there. ‘The farmer gave us the land so we wouldn’t have to move our chaps. It’s called Jerusalem,’ he says softly.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6659483/D-DAY-HEROES-BATTLE-Normandy-monument-22-442-Britons-fell.html In Gaza, there is also a War Graves Commission cemetery containing the graves of 3,691 British servicemen who were killed when Allenby was fighting the Turks for control of Palestine. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/meet-palestinian-family-have-tended-graves-war-dead-60-years/ Israel bombed the cemetery in 2009. All these years on, have we learnt any lessons? |
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