I thought it appropriate to post a little remembrance
on this day of remembrance. Here an old soldier
still working. My own remembrance is of course
of the thousands of Merchant seamen who lost
their lives in two world wars. The Merchant
Service suffered the greatest percentage loss
of any service in WW2. Non of the men were
under service regulations and indeed all could
have said they had had enough at any time but
back they went. The greatest injustice to them
was the practice of stopping their pay the minute
their ships were sunk. So much for the respect and
thanks of very wealthy ship owners.
Kerr, Stuart & Co Ltd No. 2451 was built at
Stoke-on-Trent in 1915. A side and well tank
locomotive, it was one of seventy 60cm gauge
"Joffre" Class, named after the French First World
War Commander, ordered by the French government for
service on the Western Front.
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