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Army Mums UK is a Facebook group created by Sonia Lomax on 27^thMarch 2010. Sonia found that there was not much support out there for Mumswhose soldiers were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. The group currently hasover 1350 members and we support Mums from all of the Armed Forces, Army, Navy and Royal Air Force.  We have four Admins on the group who run the page and are there also for support and help when needed.  We have so much shared experience on the group and can support Mums when their Soldiers are just starting out on their career aged 16 to Soldiers who are leaving and starting their journey on civvy street. We have shared the joys of passing out parades,promotions, weddings, births and homecomings but also the worry of operational tours and the sorrow of our soldiers that have been wounded and the heartache of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and killed in action. The support is just fantastic.  We all share these feelings and emotions on the rollercoaster ride of being an “Army Mum”.

E book I watch you walk away
Many of our Mums have found that writing their thoughts and worries in poems beneficial.  So many lovely items were written that one of our members Pam Clark decided to put them all together into an e-book. We called it “I watch you walk away”.  There is a poem that was written by a Mum of a Fallen Soldier and was read out at his funeral and another Mum had kept a diary of when her son was on his third tour of Afghanistan and agreed that we could use it.  She shared this with the group at the time and there were many tears shed when reading it. There are also some fantastic photographs and art work that we have added to the bookmaking it a really personal journey through the trial and tribulations of life with a child as a Soldier.  There is also a dedication to soldiers of our Mums that have been killed.

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