Remember This Day: 28 September 1917

REMEMBER THIS DAY: 28th September 1917; my maternal grandfather:

T2/10816 Driver George Tester, R.A.S.C., attached 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps as Observer/Gunner; killed in aerial combat ‘east of the lines’ near Ypres, in Bristol Fighter ‘A7210’ along with his pilot, Captain John S.Campbell, and the crew of ‘A7241’: 2/Lt’s Tomlin and Noble.

“Cameras were carried but only ten plates were exposed. The combined formations (total 8 x Bristol F2B’s) encountered about 25 Albatross Scouts over Menin at 12.30pm……”
(Excerpt from 20 Squadron Record Book)


“Until The Day Dawns
And the Shadows Flee
For King and Country”

(Inscribed on his war grave)

Your remembrance is appreciated.


Bob

Bob,

The best praise is to quote the bard -
"Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us ..."

He is my brother, he is remembered!
I salute him.
Regards,
Jim

[stevedrew]

"LEST WE FORGET"


Thank you for a grim job well done.

Steve Drew

[leo]

Many brave men on both sides lost their lives in thr Great War. Read Under the Guns of the Red Baron and you will get an idea of the many talented, well educated young men who did not come back.

"Si sta come d'autunno sugli alberi le foglie"
{we stay like in autumn on the trees the leaves).
Italian war poetry.

They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the Sun,
And in the Morning,
We will remember them.

We honour your Grandfather's service -- "No man's too good to serve his Prince"

He gave his future, for our present.

With respect,

B. Suggs

[Michael]

He is in good company. Not quite a year later, on Sept. 15, 1918, my mother's cousin Antonin Gauthier of SPA 80 fell in combat.

Mort pour la patrie
Je me souviens

Michael

La quelle patrie, Michael ?

Thanks,
It's good to remember the individuals, famous and not so famous, from every country on all sides. None should be forgotten. 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'

Bob

[Michael]

France (I don't know of any other country that had a SPA 80 squadron).

M