tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post5648391200010895088..comments2024-03-18T07:51:50.975+00:00Comments on MRS TREFUSIS TAKES A TAXI: THE KNOWN SOLDIER: IN MEMORIAM, LT BERTRAM VINCENT BROCKLEBANKHelen Brocklebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04572008161376510229noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-80499475517067465112015-04-22T22:08:42.468+01:002015-04-22T22:08:42.468+01:00Nick, we are cousins. I am updating the family tre...Nick, we are cousins. I am updating the family tree and arranging a Brocklebank family gathering in July. Please email me. Jane Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063952771945899110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-83546831383910526912014-12-15T23:30:52.010+00:002014-12-15T23:30:52.010+00:00I just found this Frank Brocklebank, one of the si...I just found this Frank Brocklebank, one of the siblings listed, was my grandfather.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793886104269332343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-18536832546995759112014-08-04T21:31:25.222+01:002014-08-04T21:31:25.222+01:00This still moves me. HxThis still moves me. HxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02658858373848443540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-9828844036134512972013-08-20T19:29:17.831+01:002013-08-20T19:29:17.831+01:00Lovely piece about a brave man. A picture, and sma...Lovely piece about a brave man. A picture, and small article, was printed in a local publication after his death. Visit http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb381/salfordswarm/Brocklebank-Broughton.jpg to view.Garyhttp://www.salfordwarmemorials.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-78083856568315487132012-10-29T20:43:19.440+00:002012-10-29T20:43:19.440+00:00Just been doing a bit of family tree analysis. My ...Just been doing a bit of family tree analysis. My grandma Edith Gertrude Brocklebank would have been 16 when her big brother Bertram was killed at age 25.<br /><br />Something that hurt her for the rest of her life.Nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-82982747059630852542010-10-01T11:01:13.384+01:002010-10-01T11:01:13.384+01:00By amazing coincidence I am here with my younger s...By amazing coincidence I am here with my younger sister & having googled "Betram Vincent Brocklebank" discovered this moving blog about our Great Uncle and the comments of my older sister left just three days ago.<br /><br />It just goes to show how our war heroes & family heroes are never forgotten.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617780287942519599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-8422985059187636532010-09-28T18:13:26.906+01:002010-09-28T18:13:26.906+01:00Bertram Brocklebank was my great uncle. He had a ...Bertram Brocklebank was my great uncle. He had a sister Edith, my grandmother, who never got over the death of her brother. She must have been about 8 when he died. My father was given his name.<br /><br />My grandparents had his dress sword - studded with rubies I believe - but it was sold at auction when I was very small. My grandfather was terrified I would come across it and get hurt. It seems a terrible shame now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-8353267403194305602009-11-18T18:29:57.563+00:002009-11-18T18:29:57.563+00:00This is such a beautiful post, I've read it 3 ...This is such a beautiful post, I've read it 3 or 4 times now. It encapsulates the 'whole' through the 'small', if that makes sense. Trying to comprehend the horror of it all is too much, we're desensitised to it. But the story of one, among the thousands, speaks to us all. <br /><br />Lovely.spudballoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433420925135653667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-38089574557462714402009-11-16T19:13:43.653+00:002009-11-16T19:13:43.653+00:00Rather early adopter of the dinner jacket, so a sm...Rather early adopter of the dinner jacket, so a smart and go ahead kind of person whose family would have habitually changed for dinner. I like him. I weep for all those wasted boys and all the women they left childless.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536884736928320856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-49188851689084664882009-11-15T20:55:16.191+00:002009-11-15T20:55:16.191+00:00So beautifully written.
Thank you for your compas...So beautifully written.<br /><br />Thank you for your compassion and empathy when you last visited my blog - it meant an awful lot to me xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-74079945138682818512009-11-12T22:32:00.793+00:002009-11-12T22:32:00.793+00:00Lovely writing, so appropriate. I find the first w...Lovely writing, so appropriate. I find the first world war so heartbreaking especially in the works of Pat Barker and Sebastian Faulks...Msmarmiteloverhttp://marmitelover.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-6885750078732394342009-11-11T20:35:45.808+00:002009-11-11T20:35:45.808+00:00And what might we have become, if they weren't...And what might we have become, if they weren't so brave. Thank you, Mrs. T, for remembering.Jaimenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-78923979338478189412009-11-11T07:29:53.862+00:002009-11-11T07:29:53.862+00:00Beautiful post - lest we forget. xxBeautiful post - lest we forget. xxTop Bird @ Wee Birdyhttp://www.weebirdy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-20772901749595088162009-11-10T08:26:06.658+00:002009-11-10T08:26:06.658+00:00Mrs. T---
You actually teared me up with this. Ye...Mrs. T---<br />You actually teared me up with this. Yep, you did it. I knew you would at some point with your lovely words and deep sentiments. I would touch and finger that jacket every single time I saw it. I would smell it and close my eyes and try and imagine a 25 year old young man dapper and fine who has his blood running through my veins. <br />War hurts my heart so much. These men (and now women) who perish..so many of them don't want to be there. However, during his time, your Lt. would have been very proud to have served his country. He died a noble death indeed. It's such a shame, because so many men came back. It really was like winning the lottery. Either a bullet whizzed passed you and you survived and it struck another or it was your unlucky day. I can't watch the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan and the film Atonement gives me nightmares. These were people who wrote in journals, who kept pictures, who had dreams and hopes. These were people who were robbed of so many years. Were robbed of loved ones. I think your grandfather honored Lt. B. beautifully and now so have you. I'm glad that his dinner jacket remains in the closet almost welcoming him home and amongst everyone else's coats that they just took off. He'll never be forgotten and he'll always be surrounded by other people's warmth from their newly deposited coats. I loved this. Really. xoxoxox--One of 365one of 365http://www.oneof365.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-22063075313403190992009-11-10T04:17:41.941+00:002009-11-10T04:17:41.941+00:00Have been reading Siegfried Sassoon (though it'...Have been reading Siegfried Sassoon (though it's WW1.) Calls to mind your Bertie. Young Ones with their lives ahead of them not to be lived.~Tessa~Scoffshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14026251653030390293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-60489665359569246392009-11-09T19:48:28.763+00:002009-11-09T19:48:28.763+00:00Beutiful, skilful and compelling. xxBeutiful, skilful and compelling. xxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02658858373848443540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-38100582226215188292009-11-09T15:39:50.178+00:002009-11-09T15:39:50.178+00:00Beautiful post. Here in the US, the 11th is a publ...Beautiful post. Here in the US, the 11th is a public holiday, Veterans Day(although poppies don't appear to feature). Perhaps the UK should do similar, to make more of Remembrance Day.nappy valley girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788949037047084412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-29052385676045180092009-11-09T11:49:04.958+00:002009-11-09T11:49:04.958+00:00I found this so hard to read .. I get so emotional...I found this so hard to read .. I get so emotional, such a huge loss to a generation. Thank you for posting. Both my grandfathers made it home .. but apparently were never the same xWildernesschichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204518870992194687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-91894763872616808922009-11-09T11:35:11.918+00:002009-11-09T11:35:11.918+00:00Mrs Trefusis this is absolutely beautiful and very...Mrs Trefusis this is absolutely beautiful and very well written. I am hopeless about Remembrance Day and nearly cried about 50 times on Saturday when I saw the poppy sellers, when I saw little people wearing poppies and adjusting them. I have been known to cry at war memorials at stations. The thing is I'm not a big weeper but if the poppies and the loss don't make you sad I don't know what would. We will remember them!Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08459305021803770946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-38397575686376972009-11-09T09:57:42.992+00:002009-11-09T09:57:42.992+00:00That's a lovely post. All those lives cut shor...That's a lovely post. All those lives cut short....justmeagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17072757702020280412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-87782826156334137782009-11-09T09:46:54.329+00:002009-11-09T09:46:54.329+00:00Thank you. Why have the politicians and the pundit...Thank you. Why have the politicians and the pundits not learnt from our previous errors and arrogance ?Titian redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17130121166864903946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-29044195234986422842009-11-09T09:29:51.170+00:002009-11-09T09:29:51.170+00:00Beautiful.Beautiful.English Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761258925161245115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-55326949657954946762009-11-09T09:16:38.096+00:002009-11-09T09:16:38.096+00:00Beautifully, thoughtfully done. Thank you.cBeautifully, thoughtfully done. Thank you.cMme Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-3904499746708049742009-11-09T01:58:30.409+00:002009-11-09T01:58:30.409+00:00what a beautiful post.
xx Miss Wwhat a beautiful post.<br />xx Miss WMiss Whistlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103831095827005334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360091480233165032.post-75064887423313171102009-11-09T01:18:04.482+00:002009-11-09T01:18:04.482+00:00so beautifully written. how hard it must have been...so beautifully written. how hard it must have been for his family. with all the war casualties we hear about everyday, it is important to remember the message in your post- what they could have become...shaymahttp://www.thespicespoon.comnoreply@blogger.com