Behind the sombre photos, often seen in military photographs, were young men preparing for war, one of which was my grandfather Private Walter Newman (left seated) with three other young faces from the 13th Essex Regiment in 1915, known as the "West Ham Pals" battalion, photographed at Felixstowe, Suffolk, prior to being shipped out to the Western Front from Harwich. Walter was wounded in action in 1916 and treated at the Harwich Military Hospital, before returning to the Western Front, but a ye

Somme 1916