The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
11 November (Part 4) - Remembering Granddad
My Grandfather was a regular soldier in the Royal Field Artillery
from 1913 to 1919 spending all four years of World War 1 in France and
Belgium. He was at the Somme and Ypres but not being an infantryman was spared
service on the front line although he did lose friends to snipers and horses to shrapnel.
He said or certainly implied he was never given Blighty leave over four years
but he did once see his father when their paths coincidentally crossed on a parade ground. Granddad
was apparently well looked after by a number of families and their attractive
daughters and several photographs survive.
This is one of the Belgian Duhaise family (if I have deciphered it correctly)
who sheltered him near Ypres and he carried it in his wallet, for luck
presumably. It is surprising that his girlfriend Grace back home did not throw
some of his photograph collection out.