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The last widow of the Great War
Daily Mail ^ | 11th November 2013 | Sarah Bridge

Posted on 11/11/2013 11:00:35 AM PST by the scotsman

'Dorothy Ellis, 93, the last surviving widow of a soldier from the First World War, laid a wreath in memory of her late husband, Wilfred, who died in 1982, at a ceremony commemorating the Armistice in Staffordshire this morning.

Wilfred Ellis survived being shot, gassed and left for dead in the mud of northern France to return home to eventually marry Dorothy, who was born three years after the end of the war.

His remarkable wartime experiences formed part of the inspiration for War Horse, the children's book by Michael Morpurgo which was made into an award-winning play and then a Hollywood film, directed by Steven Spielberg.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 11/11/2013 11:00:35 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

The first massive war the illuminati started to begin the gradual push towards globalism and the new world order, and get rid of millions of the most patriotic (and young) men that could have instead had bigger impacts on society if they would have lived. Tied right in with their population control goals as well.


2 posted on 11/11/2013 11:04:56 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: the scotsman
The last American Civil War widow (Maudie Hopkins) died in 2008.

Don't know about the English Civil War.

3 posted on 11/11/2013 11:06:04 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: the scotsman

My Grandfather Arnold Smith was a Queen’s York Ranger. He was gassed in WWI and came to under a bunch of dead soldiers piled on a horse pulled cart. In WWII he was a DI training Queens York Rangers. He wanted to go to Europe to fight but they said he was too old. He did sneak on a troop ship with a platoon of new recruits but he got caught and thrown off the ship. Grandmother said he had nightmares and would get down beside the bed like he was in a trench and yell at the bloody Gerry’s and act out shooting at them. He passed when I was 12. By then he had made a pretty good marksman out of me.


4 posted on 11/11/2013 12:15:25 PM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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A brave man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen’s_York_Rangers_(1st_American_Regiment)_(RCAC)


5 posted on 11/11/2013 12:21:43 PM PST by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

What truly interested me about that movie “War Horse” was them portraying the calvary charges in WWI. This is absolutely true. Can you imagine French and English calvary charging into Maxim machine gun nests? Just shows the allies total misunderstanding of modern warfare at that point. And these were not the last calvary charges in modern warfare. The Polish calvary made charges against the German tanks in 1939. Even the American army originally sent over calvary units in 1917. However, the horses were never used for calvary charges. That idea was thankfully gotten rid of.

All during WWII, the German army made a lot of uses for horses in bringing up supplies and rear echelon type of activity.


6 posted on 11/11/2013 12:55:04 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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However, the horses were never used for calvary charges. That idea was thankfully gotten rid of.

It's important to realise that even as late as World War I, cavalry charges were still occasionally useful. The charge of the Australian Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheeba on 31st October 1917, is fairly well known (it is often described as the last successful cavalry charge in history, but that is overstating things - there were a number of other successes following it - the last in my view, was the Charge at Kaukab on 30th September 1918, also by the Australian Light Horse, but credible cases can be made for later charges being successful even into World War II). There were many circumstances in which the use of cavalry charges was no longer appropriate, but the idea persisted because there were still occasions where it could be exploited.

7 posted on 11/12/2013 4:37:55 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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"The charge of the Australian Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheeba on 31st October 1917"

Yes, the calvary still had many uses in the middle eastern theater during WWI. When I said the idea was gotten rid of, I was referring to the western front where there was absolutely no reason to use Calvary.

Even towards the end of WWI, there were more and more cars being used in the middle eastern theater.
8 posted on 11/12/2013 4:44:34 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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