Photograph
The "Posset Four" (Jack, Jesse, Abel and Hilary) pose for the camera at their ordination at Wenchoster in 1913. They all enlisted in the Wenchostershire Light Infantry in 1914 and served at the Battle of the St.Aubigne-des-Bois. Only Jack survived, his brothers being despatched by a boiler full of Oxtail soup that was blasted through their billet during a particularly heavy bombardment on Holy Cross Day.  He was posted to North Africa in 1917 and was reported as "Missing, presumed killed" after an altercation with a carpet seller in Tangiers over the price of a small hearth-rug.

 

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