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Originally Posted by cashman
think a problem come be retlaw, many dads/grandads refused point blank to talk about the wars,at least to their kids/grandkids? that was certainly the case fer me, much as i tried to draw em.  |
When I was a kid in the 1930s I used to sit on what was called the Wesley form, at the bottom of Adelaide St, some of these old soldiers sat there as well, reminising about the war, they didn't mind me being there.
I also went to school with the children of some of the survivors. Then when I left school and started my apprenticeship, there were many survivors still working at Langs & Bulloghs, so I heard a lot of their stories.
I've also read a lot of personal diaries from WW1.
Which after I transcribed them, are now in the Archives at Bow Lane, Preston.
The privations & conditions under which they served & suffered, are unbeliveable for the present generations.
Retlaw.