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May be of interest to anyone who saw this programme and and lives near East Grinstead, the Town Council are unveiling a plaque to Sid Godley on Saturday morning at 11:00 am, 100 years to the day that he won his V.C. The Government are providing plaques for the home towns of everyone who won the...

Being repeated on BBC 3 at 9pm this evening (Sunday) for those who didn't see it first time round or didn't record it. BBC drama at it's finest, don't miss it!

Mons is definitely worth a visit, if you are there on Sunday 24th I'll buy you a beer.

Thanks billy, I'll look out for that book. Good bloke, Richard Holmes, his War Walks series on TV was excellent, especially the one about Mons. I met him once in a bar in Ypres, what he didn't know about war wasn't worth knowing.

My grandfather Tom Judd was in the battle of Mons, under the bridge where Dease and Godley held up the advancing Germans. If these two brave men hadn't done what they did many more Brits would have been killed, maybe including my grandfather. If that happened my mother would never have been...