Comments on: The McClintock Brothers

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:04:20 +0000

Thank you to each of you for your comments.

I heard some stories yesterday, ANZAC day, about the physical and mental strain of parents who had lost sons at war. It made me think of John and Margaret. Not forgetting John experienced the loss of his first wife, two other sons and a daughter before he died in 1921.

Both of my posts for the ANZAC Day Blog Challenge have a war widow who never married again. In this post there was child also who never knew his father. Very sad.

Our stories are just a few of many many more all too similar.

By: cassmob

cassmob — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:39:53 +0000

hi Merron, I read your wonderful post the other day but only just getting back to comments. I was struck at the time how your McClintocks were in some of the same places as my James Paterson. Also your James and mine both on the wall at V-B. What terribly sad stories they are, the losses in peace as well as in war. How on earth did parents survive the grief? Poor Albert, injured so badly and having to live with that all his life and John’s wife Selina left behind. Put together another 46,000 stories of Australia’s “lost” men, like the ones we’ve all told this Anzac Day and the sheer pall of grief that lay over Australia/NZ must have been devastating.

By: Tanya Honey

Tanya Honey — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:19:13 +0000

A wonderfully informative post Merron, but so sad. So many mothers died before their sons either came home, or they knew if they had been found or had died. I can’t imagine their pain.

By: danceskeletons

danceskeletons — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:04:08 +0000

As a mother of 3 sons, I always find these stories incredibly moving. Lest we forget.

By: genebrarian

genebrarian — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:03 +0000

What a sad story. Poor family. What is even more sad, is that it is not an untypical loss. “The War to end all Wars”. Thanks for sharing this.