Interviews

The First World War

french_poppiesA number of participants have reflected on the way in which their thoughts turn to the First World War while observing the Two Minute Silence.

Max Easterman on observing the silence in the 1950s, the Germans over Hartlepool, and the dreadful silence of the Zeppelins
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Max Easterman on inheriting his uncle's First World War trenchcoat
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Mabel Jenkins on on the memory of her father, John Clement Gardiner
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