Soldier Record

My father enlisted in august 1914, 15days after the start of the Great War,with the 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. After training at Fort George, moved to France with the BEF in early 1915 came through many battles until he was wounded in the latter stages of the battle of the Somme.After several months in hospital he was discharged on the 24th april 1917. He lost his arm but never allowed this to keep him back from working to support his family,his mother was widowed and left with seven children ,he was the 2nd son, his older brother John was missing presumed dead in may 1915 at Ypres. Eventually he got married in 1934 and later had 2 children, myself and my older brother, as children we were never aware that he had an artficial arm until one day a school friend asked me what happened to my fathers' arm,I was quite surprised by this and asked when I got home my mother said that he was wounded in the first world war. My father never talked about his time in the war and preferred to get on with his life, which he did with great dignty never complaining although we knew he was sometimes in a great deal of pain, he died peacefully in October 1984 just 3months before his golden wedding aged 89.