Grandma had spent her life telling herself her father escaped...until she saw his headstone in the cemetery

Sgt Dargie. Born in London to a Scottish mother, Don lied about his age to enlist in the Army, just like Callum’s great-grandfather, who pretended to be a year older than he was.

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Manvieu holds particular significance because my great-grandfather left behind a wife and four young children, my grandma being the second oldest at eight.

“Shortly before Grandma Sheila passed away in 2018 she told me the story of how a little girl had come up to her in the street in Aberdeen and told her that her dad had been killed in France.

“Grandma ran back to the small family flat where she was greeted by the sight of her mother in a hysterical state, clutching on to a brown telegram and surrounded by neighbours trying to console her.