Genuine Orthodox Christian ☦️ Sometime Crown Servant, Restauranteur, Librarian and Territorial. Heavy Woollen District Tyke. Reactionary Jacobite. Vive le Roi!
Today I travelled to a village near Exeter with my friend James. At 11 o’clock we stood at the grave of Jack Sadler, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2007. Jack was quiet and kind with a rich, dry humour. Remembering Trooper Jack Sadler, HAC…. our friend. #RemembranceDay
Britain buried a man among its kings. 👑
To this day, nobody knows his name. ❓
Not his family. Not the army. Not even the officer who chose him. 🤫
It was meant to be that way. 🕊️
In 1916, an army chaplain stopped at a grave in a back garden in France. 🪦
Someone had pencilled on its cross: "An unknown British soldier." ✏️
For four years, he told no one what it made him think. Then he wrote to Westminster Abbey. ✉️
His coffin was made from an oak tree at Hampton Court. 🌳
Dover Castle gave him a nineteen-gun salute, usually kept for a field marshal. 💥
The King walked behind him on foot, as chief mourner. 🇬🇧
The guests of honour were around a hundred ordinary women. Each had lost her husband and every one of her sons. 💔
Today, his is the only grave in the Abbey nobody may walk on. 🌺
They buried him among the kings, because he had done good toward God and toward his house. 🙏
We will remember them. 🌺
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧