Our Heroes

[MaryA]

Doing my little bit for the St Cyprian's Memorial as we all are, is really heartbreaking.

Perhaps it's the time of year that makes it all so poignant but I find myself feeling so much for the families of our heroes.

One lady, don't know if she is the wife of a St Cyprian's name, but she's a Liverpool lady, so one of ours anyway, wrote back to the Ministry after being told of the death of her husband, enclosing her marriage certificate and birth certificate of two children, stating that she expected to be confined of her third child any day and she would write back after she was over "her trouble".

Oh I wish there was some way of making it so that a new child wasn't seen as a trouble, but at that point in her life what else could she have felt, one more mouth to feed and care for on her own. I didn't find out if she had any family of her own to turn to, but she didn't have any in-laws. She must have felt so alone.

Katie, no wonder you feel that they are all "your" soldiers, how on earth you can do all the research you have done so far and not be in floods of tears all the time, I'll never know. I admire more than ever what you are doing.

Thank you so much to all our crew taking part in this memorial and to Amanda for bringing it to our attention.

We will not let them be forgotten.