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Remembrance Day 2021 - Aren't We Forgetting Something 211110

Author
History Cafe
Published
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Episode Link
https://soundcloud.com/history-cafe/remembrance-day-2021-arent-we-forgetting-something-211110

We don't apologise for repeating this broadcast made for last year's Remembrance Day. The story is so important it's worth telling again and again.At least 50% of deaths from war in the last three centuries were civilians. In 2001 the International Red Cross calculated that in modern warfare ten civilians die for every member of the military killed in battle. In the two World Wars the vast majority of soldiers were "civilians in uniform" - conscripts or volunteers. But do the military remember them?

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