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Passchendaele

Proceeding contribution from Pauline Latham (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 13 July 2017. It occurred during Debate and Speaker's statement on Passchendaele.

Richard Pinkett, a constituent from Belper, posts regularly on Facebook about people from Belper who died in the many different battles of the first world war. Belper is much bigger than it was and the posts show that not only the people who were killed in the battles but the families in the local region were affected. So many families in so many communities were affected by the deaths of their sons. My hon. Friend mentions the women who bravely helped. We should remember the people back home as well as those on the frontline. In Belper, a flag in the memorial garden is lowered to half-mast every time we commemorate 100 years since one of the young men died. It is a testament to local people that we do not forget those who died.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
627 c492 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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