256749 Pte. William Ewart Gladstone Shore British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.12th February 1917) My Grandfather, WEG Shore, was firstly in the 1st Battalion Gloucester's. He was wounded in the Battle for Loos (Western Front). He returned home to recover October 1915. He saw his son (my father for the first time, as he was born just 7 days after grandfather sailed to France.
He was later shipped to Mesopotamia with 7th Battalion, wounded on the 10th of February 1917. He died from wounds received on 12th of February 1917. He left behind 4 small children, and my grandmother.
I have written a factual account of this and how my family coped with his loss (or not as it turned out). I have titled it "War Widow and Child", and sub titled it "Was she a Vilian and worst mother on Earth?
or A Victim of Tragedy and Predatory Men".
It is available form Amazon Books, if anyone wants to read an emotive thought provoking true story of how a normal Tommy's family was effected.
Much more than a war story.
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