To commemorate this, here's a picture of my great-great uncle Jenkin Lloyd, who was killed at the Battle of Cambrai on 23 November 1917.
His parents, my great-great-grandfather & mother, received the accompanying letter from the king in acknowledgement of their loss.
It somehow doesn't seem adequate, but then I'm looking at this at a century's remove. They put the accompanying piece in the local paper, which, I imagine, didn't even begin to cover their own sense of loss.
"Lest we forget", we keep saying. And yet, we have forgotten, because we're still killing each other to this day. I wonder when humanity will realise how fundamentally stupid we all really are.
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