War's Forgotten Women by Helen D Millgate

Author:Helen D Millgate
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752467009
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

The following accounts from the archive detail in retrospect some of the emotional traumas of the days, weeks and years following the announcement of a serviceman’s death:

My husband was a fighter pilot No 3 Squadron. They were sent to France on May 10th when Belgium fell. He was killed three days later. He is buried in the War Cemetery at Armentieres, and it took me eleven years before I could bear the pilgrimage to his grave. How terrible is war. We all know that and [as] I stood there amongst all the hundreds of graves from the First World War that stretched around me like a white sea, I could only think, with such clarity, of the thousands of lives that had been affected – from this one cemetery alone…

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