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Casualties of War.

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Alberta

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We have seen many films of the horrors of War but there must be casualties that remain unknown.
My Maternal grandfather was injured in WW1 and gassed, I believe he was always very fragile and had terrible breathing problems.
I never knew him , I was born in 1942 and in 1943 the war brought back too many memories and he took his own life.
My grandmother got him back from war in 1918 but lost him to it in 1943.
 
I too had an ancestor who was gassed in WWI too. He subquality died in 1933, found dead on Bromford Lane one day. He apparently had significant heart and lung damage from the gas.

Mustard gas may not have been the most lethal gas used, but it had some very long term effects including altering the victims DNS making them prone to lung cancer too.
 
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