Swifter than the arrow

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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    With Remembrance Sunday & Armistice Day approaching, just days before the end of World War I, former Barnsley FA Cup Final winger Wilf Bartrop was killed in action on 7th November 1918.
     
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    Lest we forget
     
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    Brave man, along with many others. Proper Hero/Legend. So near the end of the conflict as well.
     
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    None of them shouldve been killed in that War. Any international conflict should be settled with the two respective kings/PM's having a duel to the death.
     
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    Yeah worked down the pit so he'd have been safe but for his willingness to fight.
     
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    The loss of life in any conflict is heart breaking but I feel more for those lost during the First World War. Sent out into no mans land into heavy machine gun fire to certain death.
     
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    Just ordered the book 13 p from Amazon (then best part of £3 postage). Looking fwd to a good read.
     
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    Well done JLW for posting this message -
    In the small Welsh village where I was born is a Memorial to four local boys who were killed in WW1. Like Bartrop they would have had no idea of the horrors facing them.
    We should not forget them!
     
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