I got a reply from the grandson for those of you that wanted to know if his grandfather came home.
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Hi Bonny,yes he did come home, and he served in WW2 as a merchant seaman. I've heard two stories about how he was wounded : one starts with him leading a horse with supplies towards the front, the other with him in the trenches during an attack. In the attack story, the trench collapsed under shellfire, burying him up to his neck, the trench was... See more held by the Germans for three days before the British recaptured it and he was freed. In the horse story the shell either blew him off the duckboards into the mud were the other Tommies could reach him until the mud hardened, or a wall fell on him. In all the stories, he was trapped for three days unable to move. The story also has it that soldiers passing him would kick his head (hard to believe if it was his own troops! Germans, maybe)
I gather he never wanted to talk about it, so details are probably lost forever now.
