Just researching Leicestershire Regiment men atm. By strange coincidence they also were in the Ypres sector in April 1915. Have your checked the Battalion War Diary to see where his unit was and what happened? He wont get named but you might be able to work out how he died
Your Grandad was in the 6th Leicesters? At Bazentin?
Try looking into it - otherwise their sacrifices are lost forever.My paternal grandfather was there around that time.
Caught in one of the early gas attacks, his lungs were wrecked by the chlorine.
Never able to work again though he did manage to live into his 80s.
This is just family stuff, never looked into the details.
Died in Cooper house on the Monsell. I was very young, early teens I think.
We have our own family history, some of it accurate, some not, probably embellished and polished over time but it is our reality and I am comfortable with it.Try looking into it - otherwise their sacrifices are lost forever.
Happy to have a look if we can overcome how to get the starting info without broadcasting it on here for obvious reasons
A lot of the records were burnt in WWII or destroyed subsequently but it is possible to fill in the gaps and get an idea of a soldiers story
Any idea who he served with?We have our own family history, some of it accurate, some not, probably embellished and polished over time but it is our reality and I am comfortable with it.
Visited Ypres with him and my father, very early 60s, Tyne Cott is a place apart, like a different universe, the walk up to the high ground overlooking Passendall left my grandfather in tears. So many of his ‘mates’ who supported him through his recovery died for that ground, it was almost like he was ashamed he was not with with them.
True Jackie.Yes we should remember them, but we should also look at who forced our forefathers to perish..
We're ruled by evil.
Absolutely the time and place to ask questions where are forefathers died, and for what?True Jackie.
But for once not the time or place, eh.
I'd be interested to learn more about this group if you have any detailsMy brother has been at the Great War Group 2024 conference at the Leicester City Centre Holiday Inn this weekend. Dunno if any roofers attended
Well there are these things called books...............Absolutely the time and place to ask questions where are forefathers died, and for what?
I'd be interested to learn more about this group if you have any details