http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2007/07/12/victoria-crosses/ Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2007/07/12/victoria-crosses/comment-page-1/#comment-5432 Derrick Smith Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:48:36 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=245#comment-5432 My Grandfather served through the 1sr World War in the Royal Horse Artillery, and was gassed, his lungs never did recover. It was a chargeable offence not to put on the horse's gas mask before your own. Horses were in shorter supply than men! In retrospect the war was a fight between direct cousins, the German Kaiser and our own King. A family feud which wiped out a generation of men on both sides. My Grandfather served through the 1sr World War in the Royal Horse Artillery, and was gassed, his lungs never did recover. It was a chargeable offence not to put on the horse’s gas mask before your own. Horses were in shorter supply than men! In retrospect the war was a fight between direct cousins, the German Kaiser and our own King. A family feud which wiped out a generation of men on both sides.

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