Did any of y'all have relatives/grandfathers who fought in WWI?

[expositor]

i had two great uncles in great war service; one in royal navy who had to remove his lower leg to escape one of the several mine sweepers lost in the gallipoli campaign, and another in the old royal scots fusiliers in the salonika campaign.

[RAGIII]

My Great Uncle, Harry Durham was a Doughboy. Too bad he passed away before WW1 became my passion! I also worked in parks and recreation in my first profession. Once a month we had the Veterans of WW1 and Womens Auxiliary meeting in one of our rec centers. Again I missed this opportunity to talk to real veterans about their experiences. In the early 70s I would say we had at least 40 members and wives that showed up regularly to the meetings, In hindsight I am sorry I never really spoke to them beyond professional necessity.
RAGIII

[greenknight]

Two of my great-uncles, Martin and Frank Moore were doughboys. They were brothers of my maternal grandmother and had immigrated from Ireland. My mother had just located their enlistment papers online, and discovered that they enlisted on the same day. Apparently they were among the first groups enlistees from the Boston area after the entry of the US into the war.

Martin received injuries from poison gas and also a hip wound during fighting in or around Verdun. He survived the war but died from influenza/pneumonia in the 1920's. The war ended before his brother Frank was sent overseas.

The family has a few photos of them during their Army service.

[Magneto]

I am proud to tell you all that Major Crowe was my father. He is listed in the Aces British Section.

Magneto

[Kilian]

My great-grandfather, ancestor on the mother's side, was a craftsman. Born 1885 in Aplerbeck (Dortmund) he did his military service from 1907-1909 at the Handwerker-Abteilung des Bekleidungs-Amts XVI. Armee-Korps in Montigny (district of Metz). In 1915 he was transferred to Res.Inf Reg.219 where he served at the eastern front and later at Chemin des Dames. In July 1918 he was transferred to 8. Lothringisches Inf. Reg. 159; 2. Ers.Battalion where he had to fight in defenseive battles while the Pussian army retreated. He survived both world wars and died aged over 90 years in the late 1970s. Another relative i know not exactly his brother or cousin served in Warnemünde and was somehow related to a Luftschiffmotorboot in the navy. From my dad's relatives i know nothing.

[Tekko]

My grandmother, who was born in 1900, had to make wooden baskets for the Army during the war. She was a "Korbflechterin".
My grand-grandfather (date of birth unknown) was a cook in the Imperial High Sees Fleet.He was aboard a dreadnought, most of the war fighting against boredom and lack of food for the crew. The rest of our family was either too old or too young to participate. Not very heroic, but they survived.

In the Second World War, my uncle, who was born in 1925 tried to join the air force, hoping the training would last that long that he´d survive the war. He was sent to the infantry an was killed in Russia, just aged 19.
His father, my grandfather (born 1901), was a Communist and imprisoned in a KZ 1933-1935, later served as a Oberfeldwebel/sergeant (sic!) in Poland and Russia before becoming too sick to serve and survived the war.
My other grandfather (born 1905) , as a policeman, came to a SS-unit, "fighting partisans" and possibly commiting war crimes in Yugoslavia, dying in imprisonment shortly after 1945.
Both my parents survived as children, the big bomber raids on Hamburg in 1943 in houses bombed and destroyed, my mother suffering from that till the day she died. You see, the family was guilty and fell victim as well.

[1Mark66]

My paternal grandfather was an original ANZAC, artillery NCO, 1st Division, wounded at Gallipoli, transferred to the British Army (they were offering commissions) and joined the Royal Field Artillery. Arrived on the western front for the start of the Somme battles. Badly wounded by a premature shell burst in September 1916 (Thiepval). Spent the rest of the war recovering and was about ready to return to duty when the armistice came, fortunately. He died when I was 11. My WW1 interest is definitely traceable to his experiences.

Mark66

[RichardF]

My maternal grandmother's second husband, whom I knew as 'Grandpa' served as a Private in the Royal Berskshire Regiment from 1914-18. As a motorcycle dispatch rider he was not involved in frontline combat, but he witnessed a great deal of death and destruction. His stories about the 'Great War', including ariel dogfights viewed from the trenches, fired up my imagination as a child. He died in 1969 when I was 11 years old and left me his campaign medals.

[Spielspieler]

I had a handful of relatives serve:

My Great Grandfather, Pvt.William James Horsley, I believe killed at the Somme very shortly after arriving in France. His name is on the Vimy Ridge memorial

My Grandfather, Captain James Reginald Reilly, wounded at 2nd Ypres, was being evacuated on HMS Hesperian when she was torpedoed, eventually lost his leg due to wounds.

My Great-Uncle Flt.Lt. Fred H. Reilly, 98 Sqdn RFC, shot down at Stalhille, Belgium, buried in Stalhille cemetery.
Note: I found references to this incident in an old thread here (Lt's McKayHall and Reilly, 98 Sqdn + 28 May 1918). If anyone has more information I would appreciate having it.

[Aviation Fan]

He did this as a civilian.