230866 George Henry Ellis British Army 2nd Lancashire and Cheshire Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Liverpool My grandfather would never talk about his war, only to say he was lucky that he was not in mud but in the sand. He mentioned Palestine and Mesopotamia. When we were going through his things we found a certificate in Italian which seemed to say he was an honorary member of the Italian Army, but this was lost when a relative was trying to trace what it was about. I'm still checking that.
He told me about the trip on the train to Marseille and how the train was bombed and the last three carriages were destroyed - the carriages in which the sergeants travelled. Also, when in Egypt visiting the pyramids, something he would not have seen without the army.
He had a bag of photos of his army days which have been lost during research.
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