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Thursday 11 November 2010

Gunner Pierce from Canada probably never met Private Hammond from New Zealand, but for over ninety years now they've been neighbours in Greenwich, South East of London (first two graves on the left).

The details are sketchy but we do know they were both soldiers of the Commonwealth. Allied in a common cause and now bound together in death having perished somewhere on the fields of Flanders, or further afield perhaps, but certainly within a couple of months of each other in 1916.

What is perhaps more important though is that their names have been spoken today and their resting place rendered in this image. The very least they could have asked was that they'd not be forgotten, and it is for them we must ensure that with the passing years our gestures of remembrance grow not weaker, but stronger.

Let us be true to the oath of our forebears and ensure that their name liveth forever more.