Family life

Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: Our hero, my great-grandfatherThis is a photograph of my great-grandfather, Petty Officer Stoker Edward Attwood. My family never knew much about him because he was one of the first men killed at the Battle of Dogger Bank in the North Sea on 24 January 1915, not long after this photograph was taken. He was 32. But afterwards he was often talked about on Christmas Day – his birthday.By the time I was born in the 1960s, my grandmother wa...

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