my great grandad was at the Sommes

suffice to say that he never ever spoke about it.
The only story he ever told about the war was being able to obtain candles in a french village by being the only one to know what the french for candles was

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on August 19th 2010 at 17:41:19

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