Step-cousins?
Written by Nikki-ann on Sunday, 1 June , 2008 at 10:10 pm
This afternoon Sarah invited me down to her place for a drink and a chat.
I’ve known Sarah all my life, from being tiny tots, through our teens and now we’re nearly at the end of our twenties. Even our families go way back… Sarah’s Great Great Grandmother was my Great Granddad’s 2nd wife – I guess you could say she was my Great Step-Grandmother! That would make Sarah a step-cousin somewhere along the line!
Anyway, we got talking about family history and Sarah produced a folder full of photos. She looked at one, looked at its back and passed it to me.
I didn’t need to see the back of the photo, I knew the face. There, a young man dressed in a soldier’s uniform looked out from the photo with a slight smile on his face. His face tells me he’d not yet endured WW1. He’d not yet trudged through the mud in Europe, been wounded & captured or seen the hell that they call a battlefield. His face tells me it was yet to come.
I’d never seen a photo of Granddad Charlie looking young. He always seemed to look old in photos taken after the war. Even Dad says Granddad Charlie always looked old. It may be just his facial expression, but to me Granddad looks older than his years in the photo below, taken after WW1. He would have been in his mid twenties.
Sarah had one or two other photos I would like to borrow, so I’ll ask her about them when I return Granddad’s photo.
Photo 1 courtesy of Sarah. Photo 2 is from my collection.
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Category: Family History,Photography,Trow,War
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