Comments on: Songs Churchill Would Love: “Willie McBride” http://localhost:8080/mcbride Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 17 May 2024 18:09:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/mcbride#comment-13250 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:18:14 +0000 http://richardlangworth.com/?p=795#comment-13250 In reply to Richard Munro.

And 744,000 UK, including Scotland and Ireland. Honor to their memory.

]]> By: Richard Munro http://localhost:8080/mcbride#comment-13249 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:39:36 +0000 http://richardlangworth.com/?p=795#comment-13249 That song is one of the greatest WWI laments ever written. 100,000 Australians and 74,000 Scots were killed in 1914-1919. So the folk memory is very strong. Look for recording by Wendy Weatherby and her WWI music Sunset Song.

]]> By: Larry Kryske http://localhost:8080/mcbride#comment-1537 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:36:29 +0000 http://richardlangworth.com/?p=795#comment-1537 The Great War evoked some great poetry–Owen, Sassoon, Graves, et al. Yet public heroes were few–Lawrence, Richard Hannay, and Edith Cavell, among the most celebrated. Of course those in the fight knew the heroes of whom 627 earned the VC, almost 9,000 DSOs, over 37,000 were Military Crosses, and undoubted tens of thousands of M.I.Ds. Yet hundreds of thousands of soldiers’ heroics were never officially recognized. It is right that we remember on this centennial.

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