My Grandfather, Charles Hermiston, was killed in Northern France on 23 October 1918. Communication in those days was not as it is now and everyone was celebrating the end of the war when my Grandmother was told that her husband had died earlier. How shattering that must have been. Even worse, I have ascertained that he and his colleagues were killed by "friendly fire" as they were further advanced than the British Artillery were aware of. How tragic.

Jim Hermiston