Contributed by Sandshoe (Christina Binning Wilson).

My late father, George Wilson, was 11 years of age when his cousin, Willie, was killed in France. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive contains a comprehensive project detailing the memory of William and can be accessed at the link below the image: if ever a diary project conveys an unavoidable sense of the waste of war the project presented does. In memory of William Barclay Binning.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9630/8675

 Acknowledgement: ‘This item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © [Beath High School/Contributed by Christine Plummer]’.