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Centenary of the First World War

2018 has marked the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war. A war in which over 16 million people were killed, but of course the number affected far exceeded that. The parents, wives, sons and daughters of those killed or maimed; and those who survived the battles but brought the memories of the horrors they had witnessed back home with them, often to relive them time and time again.

 

Unfortunately, the title “The war to end all wars” was a misnomer. Only twenty years later the world saw a

new series of horrors and threats which required huge loss of life to subjugate. And even that was not the end. Every time there is conflict, war, a requirement for peacekeeping and bravery, there are those who will lose their life, or their lives as they knew it.

As the hundred year anniversary of the end of the Great War comes and goes, our commitment to remembering the courage of those who have served will not wane.

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