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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
Fascinating bio.
So he participated in Gallipoli, The Somme, Passchendaele and Messines Ridge? 
Gads. If anyone ever deserved reserve status it was this brave chap. |
Yup, I could barely believe it myself as I read through his papers, what he must have seen and went through I can scant believe. Then, as if what he went through in the first war wasn't enough, he joined up in WWII, got rescued off the beaches at Dunkirk and then survived being torpedoed by a Uboat in the Med while on the way to North Africa. He was finally invalided out of the war with a nasty illness, can't recall the type off hand, in 1943.
He never spoke about it though, not to my mother at least, but that is perhaps to be expected. When she stayed with them, he'd be happiest down his allotment, gardening, and watching the kingfishers in the nearby stream.