The first few minutes resonate with us.
On disembarkation, my wife's paternal Grandfather, a newly commissioned subaltern was hit in the face by a wildly swing load such as the limber shown. He was therefore excused frontline duties due to severe dental injuries sustained, became a 'base wallah', administering the light railways laid for supplying logistics and materiel to the front, which may have saved him from a grimmer ordeal. His Middlesex regiment suffered much attrition in the battles that followed, especially amongst junior officers such as himself.
