Private Alfred Musgrave died of wounds in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during World War One. His son George was only two years old at the time so he never knew his father. But from the stories recounted by his distraught mother, and a treasured drawing of a railway engine sketched by his father dying on a Normandy battlefield, George Musgrave has reconstructed the life of poverty, hardship and sadness of the dad he never knew. This tale featured in the BBC documentary 'What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?' first ...
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Private Alfred Musgrave died of wounds in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during World War One. His son George was only two years old at the time so he never knew his father. But from the stories recounted by his distraught mother, and a treasured drawing of a railway engine sketched by his father dying on a Normandy battlefield, George Musgrave has reconstructed the life of poverty, hardship and sadness of the dad he never knew. This tale featured in the BBC documentary 'What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?' first broadcast in 2007.
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