Pic P1. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916.
Having done some internet research, I believe this is the Charles Sandford you are researching and who died only a few months later on 22.4.1917. He must have been discharged from the hospital to return to the front and subsequently be killed in action.Pic 1. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916.
Having done some internet research, I believe this is the Charles Sandford you are researching and who died only a few months later on 22.4.1917. He must have been discharged from the hospital to return to the front and subsequently be killed in action. Pic 2. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916.
Having done some internet research, I believe this is the Charles Sandford you are researching and who died only a few months later on 22.4.1917. He must have been discharged from the hospital to return to the front and subsequently be killed in action. |
