War Heroes or maybe not quite.
I have researched three soldiers this year in a bit more detail and it seems that my boys were not the luckiest of war Heroes.
John Edwin Barnes (my great grandfather) died on the very first day of the ill fated Gallipoli campaign so only lasted one day.
His brother in law John Daniels was captured four days after his division landed in France on 27.8.14 and spent the entire war as a POW.
John's younger brother William Daniels it turns out was a deserter ( see my other thread)
Didn't have much luck did they.
I have researched three soldiers this year in a bit more detail and it seems that my boys were not the luckiest of war Heroes.
John Edwin Barnes (my great grandfather) died on the very first day of the ill fated Gallipoli campaign so only lasted one day.
His brother in law John Daniels was captured four days after his division landed in France on 27.8.14 and spent the entire war as a POW.
John's younger brother William Daniels it turns out was a deserter ( see my other thread)
Didn't have much luck did they.
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