When I was on the Great War battlefields recently......

[mrclark303]

I am the custodian of both my grandparents WW1 Victory and War medals.

I also have the *Canadian Army playbook from my dad's father, with the chilling 1917 line "Gassed, repatriated to Peterborough"

I also have my uncles Bomber Command DFC and Bar ribbons (two tours, 57 Sqn Halifax's at Snathe and 460 Australia Sqn Lancaster's at Binbrook) and one of his FE mission documents, relating to a particularly hellish mission, it ends with the line "crash landed Manston".

* My father's dad emigrated to Canada just prior to WW1 so enlisted with the Canadians, it took some years to recover from the mustard gas, alas the lung damage eventually took him at the age of 42.

One of many thousands who were taken tragically early by the terrible injuries of the Great War.