Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
Beat me to it. Is very interesting. Both realised it was all a mirage.

{Btw, the average Tommy from the Western Front came home despising all Europeans except the Krauts who they had a grudging respect for.}

You don't know what regiment he/they were in, do you?
I don't know, but my mum will know. I'll ask her

I don't think my grandad needed too much of a shove re the Empire. He was a rampant left winger, trade unionist and anti monarchist and I think a fair bit of that pre-dated the war. But he never forgot, or forgave, what he saw in Trinidad. I was there last year and got to visit the area where the base was. We (the British) didn't cover ourselves in glory there after the war