Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] April is the cruellest month
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:51:36 -0800
References: <C7236468.49D4%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> I was taking some more photographs of remembrance poppies at the local
> cemetery today when I came across this scene...
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/sunsworth/M8/L1013683-Heywood.jpg.html>


yes...


it reminds me of the famous TS Eliot line  from  ? The Waste Land...

"April is the cruelest month"

so many sights like that especially in European cemetaries...



Steve


> 
> I did a little digging around on the internet and it turns out they were
> indeed two brothers killed within three days of each other in April 1917 at
> Arras during the first world war. It must have been a very bleak time for
> their parents.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] April is the cruellest month)
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