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Remember when ... Frederick Luke, V.C., returns to war


FREDERICK Luke, the popular janitor at Glasgow High School, made the news in July 1941 when it was announced that he had been accepted for volunteer service with the RAF.
It was reported that he hoped to start training within a few days for the defence of British aerodromes. His son, Fred, was an air-gunner with the RAF.
Luke was no ordinary soldier; he had, after all, been awarded a Victoria Cross (pictured) for his heroics in the Great War.
“Sergeant Luke,” recollected the Glasgow Herald said in 1941, “was decorated when he galloped through an inferno of shell and fire to save two guns of his battery of the Royal Field Artillery. Another team making the attempt was wiped out. Luke got through and brought the guns to safety.” ....

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A Christmas Truce at the World War I Front
Editor’s Note: This article was published in The Remnant in 2006 after having first appeared on the Your Guide to 20th Century History website. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author. The original song by John McCutcheon is well worth listening to as you read this incredible story from a day and age not so very far removed from our own but, alas, fading in every way from the consciousness of grown up and  enlightened men who ve lost sight of God, Country and even who and what they are anymore much less the true meaning of Christmas.  ....

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