250047 Sgt. Isaac James Staples British Army 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment from:Spalding My grandfather, Isaac Staples had been born in or near Spalding, Lincs, and moved to Portsmouth prior to embarkation for WW1. He met and married my grandmother, Emily May Steptoe, and set up home in Portsmouth. Whether this was during WW1 or immediately after is unclear.
He was seemingly gassed in WW1, whereabouts unknown and possibly invalided out of the service.
He had 2 sons, James and William, in 1926 and 1928 respectively. I know very little of my Grandfather, he passed away when my father was 2. Both my father and his elder brother have also passed away now.
My father would never eat mustard, and would not talk of reasons why. My grandmother never married again and raised her sons single handed through the 1930's. In 1940, due to war damage, the family moved to Gosport, which was my home town.
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