Richard I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo but haven't read Private Peaceful. Will now do so. On the return journey from Le Mans Classic in my dear old mog I fulfilled a long postponed promise and visited the Australian National Memorial to the fallen of WW1 at Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme valley. The memorial lists more than 10,000 names of Australian soldiers with no known graves and as well there are more than 2,000 graves of soldiers and airmen from commonwealth countries. A friend and I spent several hours there on a beautiful summer's day. We had intended to go on to the memorial at Pozieres but simply ran out of emotion and tissues and so headed home. Too difficult to comprehend by far.
