September 24, 2024
AboutAnything | Greg McComb Whenever I look at this picture of my great-uncle Hugh, (under x) my first thought is always 'he must have been a really-cool guy.' It's one of my favorites in a vast collection of ancestry photos. I mean, look at the guy. A cigarette dangling from his lip, his steel helmet tilted-fashionably right, and then there is the sleeveless-sheepskin vest, possibly donated from as far off as Australia, and shipped to the front by the Red Cross. These vests were the only thing standing between a soldier and a bad case of frostbite during months of winter-trench warfare in France. You see, this is a photo of Hugh's unit taken...
