Mine was at both Gallipoli & the Somme. Survived. Not spoken about much in the family, he didn’t want to relive it and then there’s very mixed feelings in Ireland about people who served in the then British forces forces (before the rising, civil war, partition) to put it mildly.

How many wars are bankers wars.

One thing he said was that fear of dying wasn’t the worst thing, the thought of having to kill was.