Loos cemetary at Dud Corner

Loos town today.100 years after the battle of Loos

Ypres in 1915

Ypres in 2015

Silver cigarette case given to my father G.G.Horrocks to comemorate the pantomime Aladdin in Macedonia 1916-1917

Band of the 23rd Battalion of the Welsh Regiment playing for the pantomimes in Salonika put on by the 85th London Field Ambulance.

My father (right) and friend from 85th Field Ambulance in Macedonia

Short poem written just after WW1 by George G Horrocks

       The silent toast of "Absent friends"

Is drunk. The scene of feasting dies,

And backward fleet-winged memory flies:

The days of comradeship war sends

Are lived again. Dead faces rise

And smile on our reunion. Ends

                  The silent toast.

  (What kind and tender things we think

Of those who left us! May there be

Such gentle thoughts of us when we

Are absent friends, and others drink

            The silent toast.)

GGH