239302 Robert Wallace British Army Royal Horse Artillery from:Omskirk Robert Wallace - my grandfather - was a canny Scotsman. He was a horse trader and they lived behind our sweet shop in Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Granddad was in the Royal Horse Artillery in the 1914-18 war. Granddad went right through the war in France and Belgium. His horses all received wounds from shrapnel and he nursed them all back to health to continue their work in the war.
After the war the British Army had a policy of leaving most of their horses in France as food as the times were desperate. Robert Wallace was not going to have that. He said I have nothing against the French people but they are not going to slaughter my horses and so his fight with Army and Navy red tape began. He bought the horses from the Army and had them shipped to England, where they spent the rest of their lives at peace in his beloved green fields. I was forever proud to be his grandson and regarded him as my hero. He was a casualty from mustard gas on the Western Front which, in the end, took his life before his time.
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