Remember, remember

ON May 18, 1915, Capt Anthony Wilding, a New Zealand tennis star, wrote to his family from northern France that he had 'a job on hand which is likely to end in gun'.

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The next day, he was killed by a shell. On July 31 of the same year, Capt John Liddell, a pilot, managed to land his smashed-up plane and severely battered self safely in Allied territory, only to die of gangrene a month later. On October 13, 1942, Agnes Wilkie, a bespectacled Canadian nurse with a gentle face, finally let go of her friend's hand and slipped to her death in icy waters off the Newfoundland coast when SS