Let us remember the resilience shown by soldiers in the Great War

As we enter the month of December 2015, I remember my father who died 50 years ago on December 5.

Just 50 years before that, he was a soldier in the First World War. He joined the East Lancashire Reserve in August 1913.

He became a member of Battalion 2 of the East Lancashire Regiment and was sent to France to replace the casualties from that regiment in France.