A Really Interesting War Story

#1 by Sheldonboy , Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:36 pm

Thousands of men killed, and loads of boys. An awful loss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31712158

#2 by Slow Jo , Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:52 pm

Just read it through ,its hard to believe this day and age, that this country could send children to fight in a war as bad as that one.

#3 by Sheldonboy , Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:02 pm

Well it was 100 years ago. Jo, I am sure I couldn't have handled it.

#4 by Slow Jo , Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:04 pm

Wouldnt even want to try,it must ave been hell for them.

#5 by Slow Jo , Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:04 pm

Wouldnt even want to try,it must have been hell for them.

#6 by astwood , Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:22 pm

And it must have been hell for there families

#7 by Voltman , Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:52 pm

Turkey seems to have escaped any of the ill feeling we hold for other wartime enemies.

#8 by Sheldonboy , Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:21 pm

I have to confess I didn't know too much about it.

#9 by Voltman , Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:42 pm

Nor I, that must be how they got away with it.

#10 by Sheldonboy , Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:56 pm

To be fair the Turks probably never posed such an immediate threat to Britain as did Hitler and Napoleon etc.

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