Golding doesn't know his history clearly. OH's grandfather found out the hard way that WWI would be over by Christmas 1914, a Warwickshire postman, he lies in a grave in St Sever Extension Rouen next to Ali Akbar a Sowar with the Indian Cavalry. The Indian army saved the allies in that winter.

One and a half million Indians fought with the British in the First World War – from the mud of Flanders to the African bush and the deserts of the Middle East- and made a vital contribution to Allied victory in 1918. You can help to find them at Uni of Greenwich www.cwgc.org/our-work/new...