‘100’ in The odd entries from life …….

Google can’t help it’s self, I request British Aircraft of World War One on Google Images, the first row is fine then I look at the second row and there is a Fokker Tri-plane, on row three there are a Fairy Swordfish and a Bolton-Paul Defiant, both British and World War Two vintage. Row four starts with a Bristol SE5A and ends with a Sopwith Camel, between are three Spitfires a Hurricane and one Dornier Do 17! The next row starts with a British experimental aircraft of WW2 and probably the only one of it’s type, then a Gloster Gladiator Bi-plane, the last bi-plane used by the RAF; and again WW2 vintage. Then among a few WW1 types is a Handley Page Hampden Bomber – WW2, and next a British WW1 QF 3 inch anti aircraft gun mounted on a truck; it might go after aircraft but doesn’t fly ……

To day is one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and the start of the First World War, both my Granddad’s were in that war, our families were lucky as in both war’s our men retuned home without injurer, I’m told my Dad’s father retuned with a bad temper, by the time I was about he was older and mental heath was better; I only learned about it in the last years of Dad’s life.

A hundred years ago they were getting on with their lives, at best the news of events in Sarajevo would take hours to reach England, it was the last day of the old world; tomorrow was different; as some one put it ‘World War I began as a clash of 20th-century technology and 19th-century tactics’

Looking back we see those in the trench’s as all victims, left to their own they might sorted things out with a football game in no-mans land …..

Last updated July 28, 2014