I was a D-day baby, but at least I wasn’t called Dwight | Richard Norton-Taylor

Some children born at the time weren’t so lucky – consider Dee-Day White

At the outbreak of the First World War, Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, told a journalist: “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

It may sound now like a Brexit message – let the countries of continental Europe resolve their own conflicts, decide their own future relationships. Britain would stand aside and do its own thing. Such a notion was quickly shattered in 1914, as the enthusiasm with which volunteers sang their way to Flanders’ fields followed by conscripts slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands so cruelly demonstrated.

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