LadyPetrina

In no particular order of importance:- wife, mother, bookworm, metalhead, punk, paradox.

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@RevRichardColes I'm reading your posts from Beyreuth festival while I am at Rebellion punk festival. I'm loving my fest but would also love yours. I bloody love music.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

The annual Folkestone Kate Bush get- together, where women sing & dance to “Wuthering Heights”.

I’ve died & gone to heaven. This is tremendous!

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@caitlinmoran Maybe "beat me on the bottom with a US Weekly" as they're in the states? 🤣🤣🤣

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@jennyeclair Compound W?

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.

Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.

A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.

He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...

THIS is the reason we wear poppies.

We do not glorify war.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Sun salutation class, Galapagos Islands'
by Photographer Sue Hollis #womensart

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@DrJaninaRamirez @GlosHistFest Such a good evening. And a perfect venue.

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@Loudwire

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

Grandmother cycling 1,000 miles in memory of her three children

https://t.co/UlLMlZ17da

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

#onlyconnect nice outfit, but why is @VictoriaCoren dressed as Madame Arcati?

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@DrJaninaRamirez The laser. Inspiration for the Omen?

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@SaturdayKitchen @matt_tebbutt @knackeredmutha @paul_a_young @HairyBikers @TheRealLukevans @BBCOne @BBCNews So happy to see the Hairy Bikers on telly again and Helen's dress was so gorgeous.

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

#SaturdayKitchen stop poking the food Matt

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@caitlinmoran 8p
7SSz

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@jennyeclair Two icons who I think would have got on well. I like the idea that somewhere they're having a real good laugh together.

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

I’m not gay.

I’m not a senior.

I’m not Palestinian.

I don't live where vaccines are impossible to get.

I’m not trans.

I’m not a refugee.

I don’t have a disability.

I’m not a woman.

But if I don’t defend everyone’s rights, how could I expect anyone to defend mine?

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

Wow. @VictoriaCoren Loving the new hair #onlyconnect

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@RevRichardColes @BBCRadio3 Singing Together https://t.co/rolbmmN0e7

[LadyPetrina @namaah]

@sarajcox My late. very Gloucestershire ex mother in law would say. If one had a cough, "cough it up. It might be a gold watch."