Would anyone have access to or a lead to The Times newspaper 1919 about the origins of the two minute silence formed by the King? This was published 7th November 1919. Am looking for photos from that specific publication. Many thanks.
Hi Stan50, The BBC had something on this a while back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/how/silence.shtml
Edward George Honey (1885-1922), an Australian journalist working in Fleet Street, and who had fought with the British, wrote in 1919 to the Evening Mail as follows: ’A few silent minutes is needed of National Remembrance : a sacred intercession. A communion with the Glorious Dead, who have won us this peace ; from this communion : a new strength, a new hope and a faith in the morrow. In the street, the home, the theatre; indeed anywhere Englishmen and their women chance to be, surely these bitter-sweet minutes of silence will be service enough.’ This because he was devastated by the victory celebrations of drunkenness in the streets. A few months later he was invited by King George V to view a rehearsal at Buckingham Palace of a Remembrance Celebration and a Two Minute Silence. Honey has a monument in Melbourne near the great Shrine of Remembrance ( where on 11th November at 11am a shaft of sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof on to a memorial slab inscribed ’Greater Love Hath No Man’.) Honey was a sickly man and unfortunately contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to Mount Vernon Hospital where he died in 1922. He is buried in Northwood Cemetery in Chestnut Avenue ,Northwood,Middlesex. http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/31347-edward-george-honey-a-few-silent-minutes-is-needed-of-national-remembrance/
Thanks for above, much appreciated. I just need to get hold of that specific newspaper for a researcher friend if possible.
