Heather Cairns

Reflections of a Soldier

My Grandfather, Bill Hunt ,was born in 1894 and had left school by the age of 14, when he was given an apprenticeship to the silversmith at Joseph Rogers and Sons in Sheffield. Bill was a popular young man who played in both his local cricket and football teams, and who liked going to the pub with his friends at the weekends. Later he met and fell in love with his future wife, Ethel Purseglove: life was sweet.