257998 Joseph Laurence Dillon British Army Machine Gun Corps from:Salford, Lancashire Joseph Dillon enlisted on 2nd of March 1916 and lied about his age since he was only 17 years old but a tall man. He was awarded UK Silver War Badge No: B146593 and Victory Medal at the end of WW1. He was discharged on 5th November 1818.
As a child I had the honour of meeting this great man who was wounded in the hand and used to wear a brown leather glove on his hand all the time. As a child, and any other child, asking why he wore the glove he used to tell the tale of hunting in the jungle and a lion plunged at him. He managed to put his hand straight down its throat to the end of his tail where he grasped the end of the tail and turned the lion inside out. Less glamorous he was hit by shrapnel I learned as an adult. He died in 1974 leaving behind his wife, 4 adult children and 9 grandchildren (all aware of his meeting with the lion).
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