I'll Start...

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
Same for my Dad, in fact in a way moreso for my dad because I was only 18 when he passed away and we never had a chance to be grown-ups together sitting and talking about everything....

Yeah, I miss the old bugger. He was a good man who would have appreciated this; but for him, all of this wouldn't exist - he taught me what history really means in the greater scheme of things. If I can't serve in uniform anymore, at least I can represent he and his ilk online for future generations... and I know it hits home because of the volume of email I get (and you'd be amazed at the number of British and Dutch children of Canucks looking for their Canadian fathers! ).

BTW, I also have my grandfather's attestation papers from WW1 (Frederick Widmer Ball); he was a Sapper after COTC but never got overseas because the war ended before shipping out (he was demobbed 1919). That makes four generations of us in a row who have served but never in action; one wonders what might have happened had any of us 'gone over'.

Anyway, I'll post what pics I have of my grandfather in due course. BTW, I have his MINT 1913 Ross rifle Mk.III handbook, complete with handwritten notes, from his time in COTC. Priceless.