I am the son of a Blue Puttee and it's kind of late in life to be starting a discussion about events in WW 1 as I am 76 years old and i would guess there is not too much of us around. Anyway, my granddaughter, Taylor, had a school assignment to dig up information on her grand parents. fortunately, my father was still around when my son,Mark,her father, was born. My father died when Mark was 4 years old. This prompted me do a search about him. Altho he would never talk about it, he was one of the First Five Hundred to sign up and promptly saw action in Galipoli where he was wounded and sent back to England. he was ready for the first battle in the Somme valley, beaumont hamil where the first newfoundland regiment was virtually annihalated.