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Herbert Charles "Dan" Faulkner
British Army 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish)Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Tuebrook, Liverpool
My great grandfather, Herbert Faulkner, was a clerk before the War and joined up in 1914. Apart from the normal training he also was, for a time, a member of the crew on an armoured train stationed at North Walsham, Norfolk, defending the coast. He trained as a machine gun specialist and crossed the channel onboard a hospital ship The Archangel.
Herbert tried to forget his experiences but after a BBC project in 1977 dictated his memoirs using note books to his daughter and called it "The Archangel takes me to France (and stays with me)". It recalls his often traumatic experiences at the front with the Liverpool Scottish Regiment, with honesty and humour.
At the end of the war he was posted to Ireland to deal with the uprisings there. He described himself as especially lucky. Those that knew him say he was an exceptionally kind, intelligent, sensitive and gentle man. He died in 1981.
