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Pte. George Wood
British Army 2/7th Btns Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
My much loved grandfather, George Wood, served in both the 2/7th Warwicks and the 14th Worcesters. He told me that after the war had finished, they were left in the trenches because there were not enough troop ships to get them home and he spent his days with big lumps of cheese on his bayonet shooting enormous rats and throwing grenades.
He was demobbed in April 1919 and then worked for the Clifford covering Company at Wharfedale Road, Tyseley, Birmingham for the next 46 years, he was given a pound for every year he had worked when he left! He lived to the grand old age of 88 and died in Dudley Road Hospital within yards of the Workhouse he was born in in 1899. Never heard him whinge, only spoke of the war when I asked him and strangely, he loved corned beef until the day he died.