Jeri, Don thanks for the kind words. My Grandmother was one of those women, Grandpa was killed on the 14th September 1914 he had served in the Boer war and hadnt yet been called up but he knew they would get round to men like him so he enlisted. My Gran was expecting my mum and was five months pregnant when that terrifying telegram arrived "Missing presumed dead"

When my Mum first came to Orkney she saw the memorial and cried she remembered as a young child once her mum thought the six children were asleep she would sit just like the woman on our memorial she could hear the soft voice.
"Oh Dauvitt Dauvitt whit am i gaun tae dae"