Thanks Frank.
Yes, it gets to me too. My paternal grandfather was 16 in 1916, was injured earlier in the year when he was 4th Middlesex, so missed June and July but by September was in the Thiepval area with the East Surrey's, was with them 10 days in fact when he was injured again during the action around Schwaben Redoubt.
It bothers me enormously and he was just a kid, as a lot were.
I found a report attached to the Middlesex war diaries where he describes how he was involved in a patrol that were attacked and then lost in no man's land. The L/Cpl he was with was killed and he stayed out in a shell hole for a few days, eventually he made it back to his section of trench. He was 15 at the time. Finding that document will never leave me. It still gets to me now just thinking about it.
Anyway, all nothing to with fusiliers, or TS
