BBC Radio Berkshire 2nd interview with Wokingham Remembers.

In this second interview, Sarah Huxford and Mike Churcher talks to BBC’s Mike Read about the emergence of the symbols of Remembrance and visiting the war graves on the Western Front. Also discussed is the recent publication of Richard Van Emden’s ‘The Quick and The Dead’ with Mike reading from some passages originally written by Sir Harry Lauder.

Mike Read describes this very sad photograph during the interview

Mike Read describes the origin of this photograph during the interview

Also told is the story of the local Hills Nicholson family who lost all four sons over the two world wars. It is anticipated that Victor Nicholson who is the grandson of Lt Col Edward Hills Nicholson (killed 1918) will be visiting Wokingham early next year.

Historian Jim Bell presents the story of the Hills Nicholson family: Click here.

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