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Chapter 4: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 16, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

We stayed for some time at a boarding house in Hampstead and while there met Mr Creswick and his family. An officer in Dad’s (sic) regiment brought them in to tea and I received an invitation to spend the next … Continue reading →

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Chapter 3: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

One day a wireless was received that a ship was sinking a short distance away.  She had been hit by two torpedoes and was sinking rapidly  but two destroyers were hurrying to the rescue.  We were all ordered to carry … Continue reading →

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Chapter 2: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

  On the morning of the 1st we arrived at the dock feeling very damp and dispirited, during the next few years we were fated to see a great deal more of this kind of weather than we could appreciate. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 1: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

(I found one of my grandfather’s journals while I was looking in a bin of family artifacts. It was written in a service book. It seems fitting somehow as the anniversary of the First World War approaches.  This, combined now … Continue reading →

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Traces

Posted on November 12, 2013 by brushedwithmystery

When I received the envelope in the mail I reverently placed it on the table and didn’t open it for days.  I was both afraid of what I might read, as well as afraid of where the information might lead … Continue reading →

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