On the evening of 9 August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens a German aircraft dropped a bomb in the courtyard of a farmhouse in the French town of Caix, killing or wounding 20 men of the British No. 3 Cavalry Field Ambulance who were using the building as an Advanced Dressing Station. One of the survivors in the courtyard was my grandfather, Tom Harold Verrinder, a 21-year old Lance-Corporal in the 9th Lancers who had been detailed at the beginning of the battle to act as galloper for the officer commanding the Ambulance. The incident took place in the midst of one of the greatest battles of the First World War …
Read MoreCaix British Cemetery in 2018, with the graves in the foreground of men killed in the bombing of No. 3 Cavalry Field Ambulance on the evening of 9 August 1918 and the shelling of 2nd Cavalry Brigade Headquarters that afternoon (David Gibbins).