Thursday, April 25, 2013
IT'S THE SOLDIER.... It's the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It's the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It's the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It's the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It's the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives the protestor the right the burn the flag. __Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Harrie Cleveland Cobcroft, Frank Amphlett.
We think of them often but on Anzac Day we remember them with tears in our hearts.
Labels: Anzac Day
# posted by Pennie @ April 25, 2013 
Top Left... Ripley Clements Rodd (My Dad) Member of the 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment who fought at El Alamein in 1942. Died aged 93 in 2010, he is in my heart more on this day than on any other.
Top Right... Clements Ripley Rodd (My Paternal Grandad) Wounded in action at Abbeville, France in 1916. Died aged 73 in 1961.
Bottom Left... Harrie Cleveland Cobcroft (My Maternal Grandad) Awarded the Military Medal and a Bar to his Military Medal. For... Bravery and devotion to duty during the operation at Mont de Merris, near Strazeele, France, on the night of 2nd/3rd of June, 1918. Died aged 58 in 1952.
Bottom Right... Frank Amphlett (David's Great Uncle) Died in Action on 12th October 1917 aged 38, while attacking at Passchendaele near Ypres, North West, Belgium near the French Border. (No body was found, may have been buried by another Battalion but presumed blown up.)