AB

Sales Director | Part-time flag-waver | Occasionally interesting, often boring | Beer | Wine | Chesterfield FC 💙

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@AndySpencer7 @BigMick1889 I'll run you through it in the morning mate, looks fairly straightforward to me!! 👍🏻

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@tommyeddylee @ChesterfieldFC Yes Tommy lad!! 💙💙💙

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@GarrethAspinall What's that next to DEYA Steady Rolling Man then? Perhaps you need a better, brighter LIGHTBULB to assist you with your vision....? 😉👍🏻

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@AdamDaleswfc @ndunne76 @swfc I'm not that good mate!! 😅

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@JoeDart22161245 From one Spireite to another, I respect your view. I disagree with it but I respect it. I also think I'm fairly "current" too....😉👍🏻

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@DaveCoups Terrible beer mate, but any port in a storm (no pun intended!!) 🤷

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@BMadley @marsdenjunior Brilliant this mate, looks like everybody had a lot of fun ⚽👍🏻

[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.

[The Open @TheOpen]

Ivor Robson. 1940 - 2023.

A voice synonymous with The Open.

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@clairebelles81 @ChesterfieldFC @Jeffking034 @DeejOldaker @ry_coco @DebbieBeckett_ Safe journey and bring back the three points, please 🙏🏻💙

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@BMadley Eyes on the prize mate!! 😉🤣

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@IrfanKawri @FA_PGMOL @azds1492 @OfficialBBDFL @AFC_Bolton Good luck Aishah, here's to many years of success but most of all, enjoyment 👏🏻

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@VodafoneUK I've DMd....

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@VodafoneUK please contact me asap to discuss our business account. I have been (unsuccessfully) trying to speak to a human being all morning without success. The options given on your "helpful" options service aren't appropriate for what I want to discuss.

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@dgriffinpix @DerbyshireCCC My absolute hero, what a gloveman 👌🏻

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@rogervaughan65 One of the good guys!! Good luck with your next venture and see you on the circuit in a few weeks time mate 👍🏻

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@mitcheladams *Phone rings*

LBA: "Hello, London Brewers Alliance"

Caller: "Hello, is that the year 1958"?

LBA: "Why yes, yes it is....how can I help"?

Caller: "By fucking right off"

*Phone down*

@LondonBrewers - wake up and sort this crap out. Clueless 🙄

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@jarviscockup @MatchwinnerUK They're superb aren't they mate?!! 💚🤍💙