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Pte. George Henry Riley
British Army 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Brighton
(d.17th September 1918)
George Riley was my Grandfather. This is an embroidered cloth about 1 meter square. Dad's Nips refers to my mother and her brother. The image was probably taken from a photo carried by my grandfather and I was told that it was made by Turkish prisoners of war in Alexandria. I also have snakes covered with tiny glass beads which were obtained at the same time.
Having endured the horrors of the war in the Middle East I was told that my grandfather was picked off by a sniper while exercising the dogs in northern France less than two months short of the Armistice.
