Royal

Accidental and other deaths after surviving the the trenches is extremely sad. I seem to remember one episode of 'Who do you think you are' followed Kirsty Walk's uncle. I believe he was in the Royal Scots, transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, won the DCM, and then died in the flu epidemic in 1918.

My grandfather and his three brothers all survived the war. all were commissioned, Three were infantrymen - KRRC then MGC, South Lancs - two of them - and my grandfather who was RE, joined under the Derby Scheme. All their P files were destroyed in the 2nd WW except Grandfathers and so our family records are extremely thin.

Royal

Accidental and other deaths after surviving the the trenches is extremely sad. I seem to remember one episode of 'Who do you think you are' followed Kirsty Walk's uncle. I believe he was in the Royal Scots, transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, won the DCM, and then died in the flu epidemic in 1918.

My grandfather and his three brothers all survived the war. all were commissioned, Three were infantrymen - KRRC then MGC, South Lancs - two of them - and my grandfather who was RE, joined under the Derby Scheme. All their P files were destroyed in the 2nd WW except Grandfathers and so our family records are extremely thin.

Royal

Accidental and other deaths after surviving the the trenches is extremely sad. I seem to remember one episode of 'Who do you think you are' followed Kirsty Walk's uncle. I believe he was in the Royal Scots, transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, won the DCM, and then died in the flu epidemic in 1918.

I have four great uncles (brothers) from Wheldrake, Yorkshire who were in different regiments. They all came back, one died in the 1940's but the rest all lived into relative old age. I thought it unusual for four brothers to go and come back, but maybe not then ...

I have researched them all with various degrees of success!

Two of my Great-Grandfathers were brothers and both returned, together with 2 Great Uncles who also survived the Great War. And they're ALL the members of my wider family that I know served.... It's probably explained by the fact that they all ventured off to (and from) different parts of the Great War -

1) Herbert Herring, in the Irish Guards;

2) His brother Harry Herring sent to Mespot;

3) Alfred Eke, who had emmigrated to Australia but joined the AEF, survived it from beginning to end;

4) Peter Wilson, RFA, posted to India.

Quite an ecclectic bunch!