Rememberance Day 2016

[Flying10uk]

In recent years I have discovered that a cousin of my Grandmother who lost his life serving his country during WW1 was not killed in action as everyone in my family had thought for many decades. He was in fact, only wounded, shot through the lung and taken Prisoner of War. He lived for nearly 2 months in captivity, long enough to write home, before dying from his injuries, aged 20.

He was serving in a T.A. regiment and so was one of the first to go to France in 1914. In his service records I found the form which he had to fill in when he joined the T.A. in 1911. The line where it asks for his occupation he has stated none still in Education.