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Ship of Fools: Lochnagar Crater, La Boisselle, Somme, France

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited November 2018 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: Lochnagar Crater, La Boisselle, Somme, France

A homespun, endearing Remembrance Day service evoked ghosts and a tear

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Comments

  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    What a splendid and moving report. Thank you.
  • Mr ClingfordMr Clingford Shipmate
    Seconded. Well done to the organisers and participants and thanks for the report.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I believe the bearded gentleman in the photo, standing to the right of the chap with the umbrella, is Richard Dunning himself.

    An extraordinary and indeed moving story. So much more in keeping with the Christian faith than all the bombastic military stuff that seems to go on at this time.
  • Dean SpanleyDean Spanley Shipmate Posts: 1
    I suspect that the blue flowers were not poppies but cornflowers – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleuet_de_France.
  • Box PewBox Pew Shipmate
    edited May 2019
    Thank you so much for this report. The atrocious weather adds to its poignancy - a modest intimation of the squalor of the WWI trenches, running with water, mud, disease and death.

    It has also prompted me to read more about the Lochnagar mine which I was only vaguely aware of.
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