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Cpl. James "Digger" Mallaby
British Army 46th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:masham
This fine chap was my grandad, James Mallaby. Digger was the nickname given to him by the Australian soldiers he fought alongside in the MGC. Digger fought in the Somme and at Arras and was gassed and shot several times whilst on the stretcher to evacuation in June 1918. He survived the war and died in 1980 when he was 90. I have all my grandad's military records service, etc.
I remember him as a funny man with no hair and no eyebrows who loved a pint of a bitter at the Bruce Army in Masham, where he is still talked about to this day. I miss him and my mum both so much. God bless.

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