We are still in November 2018 – the centenary month of the ending of the Great War. Despite the changes in society in the last 100 years, not least the decline in formal religious belief and practice, respect for the sacrifices made by a generation of young men in World War I has only grown with each new generation. In our village, 40 years ago, only a handful of people stood by the war memorial on 11 November. The numbers have slowly expanded so that today there are probably 100 or more. It seems that the further removed we are from the actual carnage, the greater our collective wish to mourn it.
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The Jesuit who photographed the First World War
Father Francis Browne SJ was already famous for taking the last photos of the Titanic
Francis Phillips
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