Britain Declares War on Germany - 04 August 1914

100 years on, it was a truly horrific war.

We have been asked to turn off our lights and burn candles of reflection tonight.

Large

My granddad, born end of the nineteenth century, was injured in the first war, he was hit by shrapnel while moving munitions on a cart. He went on to bring up a family and lived into his seventies.

xx