That is weird.

My mother's mother's first husband died in the 1916 Somme Offensive, and left her a widow with two small children. He has no known grave.

His daughter survived to old age, but had no children. His son died in infancy from diptheria.

Though I supose there are many people with an ancestor, or a 'would have been' ancestor who died in the first world war.

My actual grandfather was wounded at a place he and the family called Wypers - it was only long after I first heard the name that I found out that it is written Ypres.

Anne Croucher