Friend of the Moose Jaw Express Bryan Wilcockson from Selby, Yorkshire annually shares photos from his region with our readership.
Here’s a selection of poems and photos from various unknown sources to reflect how they remember the fallen in Yorkshire.
Wilcockson says, “Drax Power Station is close to where I live ( I was one of the civil engineers who helped to build it). The biomass that fuels it comes from Canada’s prairies!
“This is my poppy for 11 O’clock ( My dad was RAF),” said Wilcockson. “I’ll be going down to the local commonwealth war graves today (Remembrance Day), where the town’s school children put a poppy cross on each serviceman’s grave…(there’s a few Canadian lads amongst them.)”
Schoolchildren place a poppy cross on each of the war graves in Yorkshire (the only other place that I know of who does this is at Arnhem in the Netherlands)
Most of the Commonwealth War Graves are aircrew, some even RCAF. Wilcockson said that his dad was RAF and that he used to tell him there often wasn’t a lot left to bury after the bombers had been shot up over Germany.
