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My maternal grandparents were born in 1901, my paternal grandfather in 1892 though he had died before I was born. When I was 17 I was stuck in hospital for months and most of the patients (an adult ward) were elderly men, some at the end of their life.
Their stories were fascinating, particularly one man who had survived the trenches as a teenage scout in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1916 reporting directly to the Battalion Commander, one Winston Churchill. He said that on at least one occasion Churchill had gone out with them at night into no man’s land. Others could remember grim poverty as miners in the same era- one on land owned by the Duke of Hamilton who had a cutting made so that miners couldn’t be seen from the windows of the colossal Hamilton Palace.
Their stories were fascinating, particularly one man who had survived the trenches as a teenage scout in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1916 reporting directly to the Battalion Commander, one Winston Churchill. He said that on at least one occasion Churchill had gone out with them at night into no man’s land. Others could remember grim poverty as miners in the same era- one on land owned by the Duke of Hamilton who had a cutting made so that miners couldn’t be seen from the windows of the colossal Hamilton Palace.