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Jill Segger reflects on what might have been
Patterdale is a picture-postcard village Lying at the southern tip of Ullswater, it nestles below fells so steep and close they seem to rise from the rooftops My grandfather described his birthplace as resembling 'a l'aal bun in a basin' Perhaps that image sustained him as he struggled for physical and mental survival on the killing fields of northern France ninety years ago
In 1914, Granddad was a young shepherd minding flocks in the shadow of Hellvelyn On hearing that his country needed him, he cycled to Carlisle to enlist By the eve of the Somme he was a sergeant – the natural rank of an intelligent working-class man in those times So many junior officers fell in the days which followed that the young NCO with a Cumbrian accent and an elementary-school education received the King's Commission He left the army with the rank of major, decorated for bravery under fire and held in high regard by the men from whose ranks he had risen
Jill Segger
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