Since 'Liverpool
Picturebook' began, I have featured other websites that contain similar or
complimentary content as I feel it important for viewers of this site to have
access to all of the other amazing information that is out there on the
internet. One such site has captured my attention recently because of an
amazing story about one Ernest Arthur Quarless,
In the summer of
1940 the German Luftwaffe began daily bombing raids over the UK. Liverpool
along with its surrounding areas was hit hard and many of its citizens lost
their lives during the campaign. Families where split as many children where
evacuated to the countryside. Some families lost everything they owned when
their homes where bombed. Shops, public houses and whole streets where reduced
to rubble as the Blitz took hold.
The ‘Liverpool
And Merseyside Remembered’ site is dedicated to all the Merseyside people who
gave such a huge sacrifice during the two world wars. To their undying spirit
and their ability to carry on against all odds, be it here at home or on
foreign sea or soil.
'Liverpool and
Merseyside Remembered' have recently featured a most unusual and amazing story
and I would ask you to read it and share the link to the site with anyone else
you think would enjoy reading it.
ERNEST ARTHUR
QUARLESS
On 4 August 1914
when Britain declared war on Germany, many answered the call to enlist, among
them were under aged boys. You had to be 18 years old to join the Army, and 19
to serve overseas. Today we know that thousands of young lads who were under
age signed up and served their country, many saw action in some of the most
brutal and horrific battles ever known, many were wounded, and many died. It
happened, there is nothing we can do about it now, most of these boys were
determined to join up, and they did.
Life in 1914
must have been pretty mundane for a young lad, no TV, Mobile Phone, Consoles or
Internet back then, just the same old every day routine. Then a war starts, the
glamour, the passion, the adventure, imagine how it must have seemed to them.
They would see the local men marching off, everyone cheering, they wanted that
as well. Sadly the reality was not what it had first appeared and they found
themselves in the middle of unimaginable horrors.
By Robert F Edwards Pin It
