As a kid I spent a lot of time with my Grandad Claude,helping on his small-holding. He grew vegetables and kept chickens; he also sold fire-wood by the sack-full, using unwanted timber from his employer's estate.
Visiting the site sixty years after his death, time seems to have stood still:- Here the dilapidated sheds, there the tangled wire -netting from the chicken coops...
Wounded at Gallipoli,Claude also survived three years on the Western Front, where he lost two brothers. Despite everything I never knew a kinder, more considerate man.
Every year I wear my Remembrance Day poppy with pride....
Visiting the site sixty years after his death, time seems to have stood still:- Here the dilapidated sheds, there the tangled wire -netting from the chicken coops...
Wounded at Gallipoli,Claude also survived three years on the Western Front, where he lost two brothers. Despite everything I never knew a kinder, more considerate man.
Every year I wear my Remembrance Day poppy with pride....
