On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:54:10 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-11-11 4:57 p.m., wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>My paternal grandfather was wounded in the trenches and it must have
>been serious as he was sent back to Lincolnshire to recover (where he
>met a nurse who became my grandmother).
>Which battle? He never spoke of his experiences and even my father had
>no idea in which battle he had been wounded.

Same thing with my father - I only found out all about his WWII career
when contacted by an author several years ago and subsequently the
publishing house. The nice thing about that is that the book
generated a wonderful web site, still maintained, and added to by many
who sailed and served together. Without the net that would never
have happened. I wish he had been alive to see all that.