The Embroiderers Guild launched a project to commemorate the ending of W.W.1 one hundred years ago. Any member who wished to take part could send for a heart pattern and some felt. I chose the larger pattern and dark blue felt.
The design was then up to us.
I decided to use the information I had on my two great uncles who were brothers to my grandmother on the maternal side and were Scots. Both were killed in action.
James Mitchell was in the Scots fusiliers and was killed at the first Battle of Ypres in 1914. He has no known grave but his name is on the Menin Gate. The menin Gate is below and my sister and I visited Ypres in 2014 and found James's name. Every evening at 8 o'clock there is a small act of remembrance at the Menin Gate.
John Mitchell was in the Royal Scots and was killed at the second Battle of Gaza in 1917. He is buried in the War Cemetery in Gaza and his headstone is below with a photograph of the war cemetery supplied by the War graves Commission.
My pincushion will be on display with others from the North at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show and at Leyburn in Yorkshire.
It was a war that scarred a generation and affected generations down the line.
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