A Date of No Significance

Those who are into numbers might consider that 11/11/11 is an interesting date. But it's not. Even if the dating scheme we use were based on anything more than an inaccurate stab at the date of a historical event, we only make this date significant if we knock the "20" off the front. It is a different day of a different month of a different years in other calendars. It is a date of no significance

And on this date of no significance we remember a man of no significance. Ernest Miller died in Northern France in 1916. He is remembered at Thiepval - and in an unexpected war memorial set into a bank in Whittington Park, off the Holloway Road. A place more-or-less where his road used to be. His road is forgotten, his community gone. His generation is now passed from our sight. The causes of that bloody, stupid war are mostly forgotten.

But we will remember him.