On it’s way to my daughter, her husband and gran daughter…Brilliant Morty!
Somebody help me…
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Oh poor vole.
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Looks like the birds talons have been photoshopped out.
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I’m inclined to agree…
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Why try to sanitise nature? It’s cheating.
The poor little voles fate in life is to become someone’s dinner … so why try and make it look less cruel by removing vicious talons.
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What a cosseted world we now live in… 
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I’m on the little furry guys side … I’d feel just the same if an eagle flew by with you in it’s talons.
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Hi
No chance of that Morti, OGF is a hardcore Yorkshireman.
He would have throttled it and sold the corpse. 
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Have you not seen ‘Kes’ Morty, we keep birds of prey for pets here in Yorkshire, and then we eat them…
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Don’t be horrible… it was bad enough watching Babe.
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We eat suckling pig in Glos.
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That could be ny dad or my husband 
I’ve become a vegetarian over the years.When I leave the planet I won’t to be responsible for the least number of animal deaths as possible. 
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But is it true that plants scream when they’re pulled out of the ground?
On September 7th 1920, in strictest secrecy four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.
None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-sur-Ternoise.
There the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random.
A French honour guard was selected, and stood by the coffin overnight. In the morning of the 8th a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court was brought and the unknown warrior placed inside.
On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed ‘( a British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for king and country’.
On The 9th of November the unknown warrior was taken by horse drawn carriage through guards of honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle to the coast. At the quayside he was saluted by Marshal Foche and loaded onto HMS Verdun bound for Dover… the coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths and surrounded by the French honour guard.
On arrival at Dover the the unknown warrior was greeted with a 19 gun salute, normally only reserved for field marshals. He then travelled by special train to Victoria Station London.
He stayed there overnight and on the morning of the 11th of November he was taken to Westminster Abbey where he was placed in a tomb at the west end of the nave - his grave was filled in using 100 sandbags of earth from the battlefields.
When the Duke of York (later King George VI) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyons (later The Queen Mother) in the Abbey in 1923, she left her wedding bouquet on the grave as a mark of respect (she had lost a brother during the war). Since then all royal brides married in the Abbey have sent back their bouquets to be laid on the grave.
The idea of the unknown soldier was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served at the front during the great war and it was the union flag they used as an altar cloth at the front, that had been draped over the coffin.
It is the intention that all relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the unknown warrior could very well be their lost husband, Father, brother or son.
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Thanks for that Fruitcake, I’ve often heard of the ‘Unknown Soldier’ but never knew the story behind him…
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