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Forgotten WW1 heros

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  Posted by Trumpf (U13683335) on Monday, 27th July 2009

  It is great that the passing of Harry Patch has belatedly caused the government to honour these men. However, I trust the memorial service will remember ALL theatres of WW1. Unlike the impression given on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ history site it didn't all centre on the Somme. Please can we have some recognition of the men who served in Mesopotamia and especially at the seige of Kut-el-Amara. The survivors who were marched through what is now Iraq to work in labour camps on the railway in Turkey should be remembered and honoured. Having researched a family member who died in Turkey as a P.O.W. it has amazed me how such an event in our history seems to have been forgotten.

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  Posted by Mike Alexander (U1706714) on Monday, 27th July 2009

  Italy was where my grandfather fought. Suffered nightmares all his life from the experience. That particular theatre of WWI would scarcely be remembered at all in the English-speaking world, were it not for Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".

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  Posted by Sambista (U4068266) on Monday, 27th July 2009

  Well, that's two forgotten campaigns, and there are others, such as Salonika and East Africa. As has been said, the Western Front hogs nearly all the limelight in the UK, with Gallipoli running it a distant second. That's just the Army. Who knows about the British submarine campaign in the Baltic? Selective curricular blindness.

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  Posted by curiousdigger (U13776378) on Wednesday, 29th July 2009

  I finished reading a very good book on the Italian front in WW1, called "The White War" by Mark Thomson.
  
  I had no idea that there was such a front during WW1 before coming across this book, I hope someone is able to write as good a history of the war in Mesopotamia soon as well.

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