Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

23/10/2005

The forgotten fears that sent a young man off to sea

THE nation’s pride — and those officials who organise symbolic funerals — would have been satisfied if the last of our World War I warriors had once served at Gallipoli or on the Western Front. Instead the final veteran of active service, Evan Allan, who died last week at the age of 106, was a sailor.

Nobody called him Digger. He did not see the inside of a frontline trench or hear the noise of a German howitzer.for more click here

 
 

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