Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information