Sutton in Craven home guard reunion Nov 1945 ........f943
Alf (81) my grandfather on my mother's side. He died only 7 months later after contracting multiple sclerosis .
He was recruited into the Duke of Wellingtons regiment in the Great War and spent three years on the Somme. He was wounded twice. On the first occasion he was shot in the right leg and returned to the trenches after a spell in “Blighty”. He was invalided back home with trench foot and was sent back to the front when the hospital in York was bombed. His second wound was more serious. A piece of shrapnel went through his right arm and entered his body, shattering a kidney and rupturing his spleen. He lay in a shell crater full of water for three days before being found and sent to a field hospital for treatment and later to a hospital in Northumberland to recuperate. He spent his twenty first birthday in the field hospital in Rheims cathedral.
Sutton in Craven home guard reunion Nov 1945 ........f943
Alf (81) my grandfather on my mother's side. He died only 7 months later after contracting multiple sclerosis .
He was recruited into the Duke of Wellingtons regiment in the Great War and spent three years on the Somme. He was wounded twice. On the first occasion he was shot in the right leg and returned to the trenches after a spell in “Blighty”. He was invalided back home with trench foot and was sent back to the front when the hospital in York was bombed. His second wound was more serious. A piece of shrapnel went through his right arm and entered his body, shattering a kidney and rupturing his spleen. He lay in a shell crater full of water for three days before being found and sent to a field hospital for treatment and later to a hospital in Northumberland to recuperate. He spent his twenty first birthday in the field hospital in Rheims cathedral.