A moment of your time.

[MacBean]

A special day, indeed.

My father, David Taylor of Aberdeen, Scotland, served in WW1 in Egypt and related areas with the Cameron Highlanders and the Lovat Scouts. He met T.E. Lawrence several times, and saw some combat but nothing close to the scale of the European front. He (evidently) entered as enlisted, but was quickly promoted and earned an ultimate field promotion to Major.

By common calculation of generations, I should be his grandson not his son, but I was a very late-in-life child. (Surprise, Mom!) I would love to trace his military records but am told that most of the WW1 records were destroyed during WW II.

Hi Jim. I was going to say. My grandfather was a pilot in the Great War, but your father (?)- that was a surprise to me.
As a child, we were taken to the Veteran's Hospitals to visit gas victims, and that was 40 years later.