11.11.18

Lots of very fitting posts in Blip today.
I have blipped this plaque before but not like this.

“The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.

The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 4.75 inches (120 mm) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the "Dead Man’s Penny", because of the similarity in appearance to the much smaller penny coin which itself had a diameter of only 1.215 inches (30.9 mm). 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a total of 450 tons of bronze, and continued to be issued into the 1930s to commemorate people who died as a consequence of the war.”

John Taylor Hendry was my grandfather and he died at the end of the First World War. He was twenty six years old.

I was on the bus in Edinburgh today to catch my bus to take me home.

At 11 a.m., the bus stopped at the side of the road and switched off the engine.

It just seemed the right thing to do.