Rupedenby
Many thanks indeed for the extract from your grandfather's book showing the date of my grandfather's death. Terry has also very kindly posted pages from a book in which my grandfather's name appears. My grandmother always used to say that he did not need to serve abroad. he had been training volunteers in Whittington Barracks but, apparently, he felt gulity about sitting out the war in England while so many he sent abroad got killed.
(from the Siegfried Sassoon poem, "Conscripts")
Once again, thank you for taking the trouble for me.
Many thanks indeed for the extract from your grandfather's book showing the date of my grandfather's death. Terry has also very kindly posted pages from a book in which my grandfather's name appears. My grandmother always used to say that he did not need to serve abroad. he had been training volunteers in Whittington Barracks but, apparently, he felt gulity about sitting out the war in England while so many he sent abroad got killed.
"Their training done, I shipped them all to France.
Where most of those I'd loved too well got killed.
Rapture and pale Enchantment and Romance,
And many a sickly, slender lord who'd filled
My soul long since with litanies of sin.
Went home, because they couldn't stand the din."Where most of those I'd loved too well got killed.
Rapture and pale Enchantment and Romance,
And many a sickly, slender lord who'd filled
My soul long since with litanies of sin.
(from the Siegfried Sassoon poem, "Conscripts")
Once again, thank you for taking the trouble for me.