Remembrance Sunday: 100 Years

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This has been done a bit before on MN, but I'd thought I'd do it again, as past threads have been brilliant.

Simple question: Do you have a family story of WWI (or another war)?

I have two great uncles who died in the trenches at Passchendaele - on the same ay. Both age 17.
They are commemorated at Tynecot - their bodies were never found

My great uncle too, he was 36, in the Royal Irish Rifles, married for 6 months. His sister died the following year of Spanish Flu. Apparently my great grandmother, widowed some 15 years earlier, never recovered from the loss of 2 of her children. I found a photo of my great uncle recently; my DF was named after him and they looked uncannily alike.

My grandmother's cousin was a very rakish, and highly successful fighter pilot in the Great War.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McElroy

My mum recalls as a young girl in ww2,coming home with my Gran after visiting relatives to find their Street gone .Not one other single person left.