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Gnr. John Delaney
British Army 45th Trench Mortar Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Easingwold, Yorkshire
(d.26th March 1918)
Don't know much about this uncle I never knew except bits Dad told me a long time ago. I just know it's getting to be 100 years since this young man. John Delaney, was killed along with his cousin and uncle whose names I cannot furnish here. I was told Johnny was a heavy gunner. My dad, James Wilfred Delaney, managed to see him by chance just before he got killed in France. He was my dad's older brother. My dad was the only one of the four family members who came back alive, surviving three telegrams home to his mother, and recovering from each shrapnel wound or bullet.
He refused to talk about it much, married my mum and fathered nine children. I understand now it was his way of coping. He used the word "Combien" instead of "How much" for the rest of his life.
