How I was Wrong about Remembrance Day

( A piece from from 2018 republished here today)

A few houses away from me, a young man died. Sergeant Sutton from the London Regiment was killed in 1918. He was 22, the son of Harry and Rebecca. A couple of doors down, a 19-year-old died. An Irish family who lived nearby lost Private Patrick Joseph O’Brien. On the next road, the neighbours at Nos 72 and 74 each lost a son. Rifleman Claude Arthur Ashb…