http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=652340Been doing a lot of family history lately,being brought up in care it is only lately pretty late in my life that i have gathered info.
My Grandad and his brother John(above link)joined up in Southampton during WW1,my grandad survived although affected by gas.....his Brother my great uncle served with the Hants regiment until they were nearly wiped out.....because of the depleted numbers they joined the Wilts Regiment along with just five officers...origanally 60 officers.
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He was a battler and so nearly survived finally being killed just two months before the wars end..........by all accounts it sent my grandad into a spiral of despair,was never the same hearing his brother didnt make it.
A sad story but being brought up not knowing this story has made me even more proud of him.......only aged 21,born in Somerset,brought up in Hants.....and fighting with the Wiltshires
Sad to think his resting place is so far off away from home in Israel in a land where alas the theatre of war is still all around even today.