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Date: 2020-01-17 06:02 pm (UTC)
perennialanna: Plum Blossom (Default)
Though someone could write PERFECTLY ACCURATELY about my great-grandfather's First World War service and be howled down, because it is utterly implausible.

He joined the Royal Naval Air Service. He found himself in their Armoured Car (yes, really) Division. As a motorcycle courier. In Turkish Armenia*, immediately before massacre season began. Somewhere around here he developed a dodgy appendix (his service record lists him as having two appendectomies, which intrigues), at which point he had to be evacuated by train the length of Russia, departing via Archangel. Winston Churchill comes into it somewhere, and when i tell the story to military historians of the right period their eyes light up.

*As noted for its coastline as Bohemia...
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