87 years ago today

[August]

Naw guys i don't mind at all, i'm proud of my great grandpa and y'all should be as well. To answer your questions, August was a soldier in the Imperial German army.

He answered his countrys call in 1914 leaving behind a wife and 4 kids to run the family farm. He fought through the entire war and he was killed in action just a month and 8 days before the end as the German army retreated back through Belgium.

One of my cousins looked up his official obituary/death certificate in the town hall, but there is precious little information on the exact circumstances of his death or where he is buried. When my great grandmother died in 1970 at the age of 92, she left me his picture and his Iron Cross in her will.

I took his name as an online nick in rememberance when i started playing Red Baron many years ago and have stuck with it since.