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My grandfather,Henri Georges, was born in France in 1887 and came to England to work for Adalina Patti at Craig-y.Nos as a waiter. He must have served Edward the seventh, as he was a frequent visitor.
Henri went back to France at the outbreak of WW1 and joined up leaving his wife and two young daughters here. He was in the artillary and fought at Verdun and was gased. He return to England but died in 1924 of TB due to being gased. He was 36. My father was born in 1920 in London. At the outbreak of WW2 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corp and was stationed near Hitchen. He met my mother here and they married in 1943. My father developed TB of the kidney as a result of digging trenches and living under canvas. He died in 1955 aged 36. He never saw a German. We therefore have two generations who died at the same age, who died as a result of war. I am one of four daughters he left behind and my mother was a war widow. I recently discovered that he never claimed his 1939-1945 war medal after the war and have claimed it on his behalf.

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