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Hank Rogers[_2_] Hank Rogers[_2_] is offline
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> Sad 100th anniversary today - although it was 100 years ago last
> Sunday that my paternal grandfather was killed and buried in France
> next to Wilfred Owen.
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So, your gramps was killed during the last week of WW1?

It's a tough break, being so damn close to the end.

I think I read that the last person killed was on the morning of the
11th, just hours short of making it through alive.



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