My granddad was, without doubt, the toughest man I have met and that includes Green Berets,

My granddad was, without doubt, the toughest man I have met and that includes Green Berets, Marines, the French Foreign Legion and a man who knew Wyatt Earp.
My grandfather, Lloyd Gladstone Hutchinson, was born in July 1898.
Victoria’s empire, the biggest the world has ever seen, held sway over Kipling’s Palm and Pine; Canada being the pine part.
Then the First World War blew it all to hell.
One day in 1916 my fraternal grandfather Lorne Christmas rolled up in a buckboard wagon and said “Lloyd you want to go to war?” and they did.
Like all combat veterans in all wars they would come home changed men with youth beaten out of them.
On their arrival in England, Norfolk County’s 133 Battalion would be broken and used as reinforcements.
Lorne went to the 14th (Royal........

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