With tongue in cheek, I suppose they owed him that as he had spent nearly four years in the trenches, including Gallipoli and Ypres. 🙂

I also have other artifacts which included including his RFC forage cap (which sadly I lost). The only things I didn’t receive were two Mills Grenades kept in a bottom drawer. Some time after his death I asked his widow “what happened to them”. The reply was “I dropped them down the Lavvie” So nestling somewhere deep in a ‘long drop’ loo in a Manchester suburb… And “I’m the only one who knows where they are” said he to the echo of fiendish laughter.

John

John