Remember the fallen

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[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Marine Robert McKibben, 42 Commando Royal Marines, killed when his vehicle was struck by an explosive device in the Garmsir district of Southern Helmand, Afghanistan on the 12th November 2008 aged 32. Robert was from the Republic of Ireland. #Afghanistan #RoyalMarines

[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Marine Neil Dunstan, 42 Commando Royal Marines, killed when his vehicle was struck by an explosive device in the Garmsir district of Southern Helmand, Afghanistan on the 12th November 2008 aged 32. Neil was from Bournemouth. #Afghanistan #RoyalMarines

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Remembering Staff Sgt Sharron Elliott, Intelligence Corps, 35, Cpl Ben Nowak, 45 Commando Royal Marines, 27, Marine Jason Hylton, 539 Assault Sqdn Royal Marines, 33, Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins, Royal Corps of Signals, 35, killed in an IED blast on 12th Nov 2006 #Iraq

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

They gave their lives for a world they would never see. Planted the seed for the tree whose shade they would never sit in. For me, you, our families, our friends, our children. For all of us.

The ultimate sacrifice, the bravest of heroes.

Today, we remember them. Tomorrow we will never forget them.

Lest we forget.❤️

[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Civilian Nursing Sister Elizabeth Maddick, died during an enemy air raid on the 12th November 1940 aged 62. Read more via this link: https://t.co/2TtxohDMsM #WW2 #nurses

[Pippa Ettore @pettore]

Lost his life this day 11th.Nov. 1940.

PO. Denis Heathcote Wissler.
One of THE FEW.
https://t.co/sCskX9Zy1l

He was shot down in an attack off Burnham.
He crashed into the sea in his Hurricane and was never seen again.

[Pippa Ettore @pettore]

Lost his life this day 11th.Nov. 1940.

Sgt. Robert Dudley Hogg…from Bedford.
One of THE FEW.
https://t.co/gcdLM94dLs

After combat with Ju87s and Me109s he crashed near Manston in his Hurricane and was killed age 22.

Buried in Bedford Cemetery, Bedfordshire.

[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Captain Walter Barrie, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland Royal Scots Borderers, shot & killed by a rogue Afghan army soldier while playing football at FOB Shawqat, Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on 11th November 2012 aged 41. #Afghanistan

[Damien Lewis @authordlewis]

Sadly, the last known surviving WW2 veteran of the SAS, Matthew "Matt/Jock" Mackinnon-Pattison died on Thursday 5th November aged 102years. We remember Matthew. Here is a summary of Matthew's wartime service. Please share widely: Matt MacKinnon Pattison was among hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who fought Germans in Italy in the spring of 1944.
Sometimes remembered as the "D-Day Dodgers", in reference to their role away from Normandy, men in Italy faced brutal conditions as they battled to take Monte Cassino and dislodge enemy soldiers.
"We came back from Italy having flogged ourselves to pieces, nervous wrecks, and people say 'where were you on D-Day?'" said Matt, from Penrith, Cumbria.
"We just say we were busy bloody well fighting."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill thought of Italy as the "soft underbelly" of Nazi-dominated Europe, but the campaign there proved difficult and costly.
With perhaps typical military irony, the men in Italy adopted the "D-Day Dodgers" moniker, even creating a song to the tune of Lili Marleen, a famous wartime melody.
"We are the D-Day Dodgers in sunny Italy," rang the chorus.
But this was no sojourn in the sun and the Allied forces knew it.
Enemy soldiers were dug in on defensive lines across the country, and at Monte Cassino it took four separate attacks from US, British, Polish and Commonwealth forces to destroy and take the hilltop monastery.
Matt still has razor-sharp memories of the battles he fought, and the comrades he lost.
He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.
Advancing up the slopes amid the fog of deadly artillery bomb blasts and the continual crackle of gunfire, the soldier saw many of his comrades fall.
But, he said, there was no time to be frightened.
"You don’t look upon it as bravery, you just look at it as part of your life," he told the BBC.
"When the officers told you to advance, that was what you had to do.
"Every battle is the same. You get pounded to death, whether it was Normandy, Burma or anywhere."
Matt was recruited for the SAS after being injured and taken to a Naples hospital to recover.
From 100 candidates, he was just one of 10 that made it. He was dropped behind enemy lines near Genoa, tasked with finding Italian dictator Mussolini who by then had been captured by partisans.
Once the war was over, he was sent to Germany as part of the War Crimes Unit to find Nazi suspects who had executed captured members of the SAS.
There, he said, he saw a broken nation, but people "just like us".
Eight decades on, he can clearly recall the claustrophobic horror of war, from German soldiers playing dead to entice Allied soldiers into shooting range, to landmines and enormous loss.
"I lost a lot of my mates, especially one called Ginger," he said.
"And when he died he was sitting in a trench with his head down. There was a smile on his face."
"Still a smile on his face that marked the place where he and his maker met.
"And that was Ginger. He was a good lad."
Dodging D-Day was no pass, and so many thousands paid the ultimate price in Italy.
In his flat, Matt still has his SAS beret, his medals and his memories.
He also has his nation’s thanks.
(Source: https://t.co/DJA1rW5gra)

[Karina Hyett @KarinaHyett]

Remembrance Day, Sydney 2026 🌺

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Remembering Civilian Nurse Edith Ivey, British Red Cross, died on the 11th November 1944 aged 55. Read more via this link: https://t.co/u9Spcj3Hdd #WW2 #nurses

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Remembering Sister Mabel Davies, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died on the 11th November 1942 aged 48. Read more via this link: https://t.co/63B5q0vRXk #WW2 #nurses

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Remembering Sister Ellen Ladkin, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died as the result of an accident on the 11th November 1941 aged 40. Read more via this link: https://t.co/v7Uf0gxra6 #WW2 #nurses

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Remembering Nurse Tamar Watson, died from pneumonia on the 11th November 1918 aged 35, VAD index card, photo with a date, death registration in the December Quarter 1918, not commemorated by the CWGC. Read more via this link: https://t.co/of965Z1J91 #WW1 #nurses

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Remembering Nurse Josephine Crilly, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from influenza on the 11th November 1918 aged 36. Read more via this link: https://t.co/XaFmsE2vpA #WW1 #nurses

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Remembering Nurse Rita Bennetts, died from pneumonia following influenza on the 11th November 1918 aged 25, no VAD index card, death registration in the December Quarter 1918, not commemorated by the CWGC. Read more via this link: https://t.co/ihNEgpgh54 #WW1 #nurses

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Remembering Sister Letitia Moreton, Australian Army Nursing Service, died from typhoid fever on the 11th November 1916 aged 25. Read more via this link: https://t.co/CHgA2o5whI #WW1 #nurses

[Gracie💙 @Gracie_Blue89]

What a beautiful imagine from yesterday.

So, so special ❤️

[The English Crusader @andrewc44104127]

Another angle of the incredible ‘Human Poppy’ made by local school children on Southport Beach!

Bloody lovely!

[Remember the fallen @war_fallen]

Remembering Nurse Eva Tredaway, Auxiliary Nursing Service India, died from illness on the 10th November 1941 aged 32. Read more via this link: https://t.co/N0LQi1u2ta #WW2 #nurses