While the major acts of remembrance occur on the second Sunday of November here in the UK, there is a wider remembrance of the sacrifices of the Great War throughout Europe and in other nations on Armistice Day, 11th November.
For many, these solemn acts of remembrance allow us to reach across time and connect with family and non-family members who we know gave their all in conflicts more brutal and violent than any of us have – and hopefully ever will – experience.
Such a connection exists between myself and Sgt Joseph Hurley, 147 of the 1/4th Batallion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who served in the Great War.
Absent from work today – not because of the snow but because of a middle of the day appointment – and I’m chasing ghosts from the very distant past in my local area. Sadly for ghost hunters and Most Haunted aficionados, I’m not after the spiritual or ethereal kind but more the traces of
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