blind man's buff

I spent the whole day searching for one particular photo - taken on a beach in 1927.  As you can see, I failed to find it. I'm now waist deep in a sea of uncollated papers, photos & albums!

So what to post for mono Monday ancestors... letters from the Admiralty bearing bad news?  A note to say a well done sir, here's a Croix de Guerre for your trouble? Photos taken in the trenches, and in tanks?  I am in no doubt that my ancestors were brave, and scared, loyal, and prepared to fight for and with our European friends again, and again.  So I have chosen instead this rather extraordinary picture taken by my grandfather circa 1949.  He was a great one for fun and games.

He was an active member of TocH and I have found hundreds of pictures of him at meetings.  The family donated a Lamp in memory of my great uncle David who died at the age of 17 when his ship was torpedoed in 1914.  David's last letters home are here.