Ted Francis(1896-1996)
One of the last surviving soldiers of the first world war, Ted Francis
joined the British army in the very first weeks of the war (at age 18)
to fight a Germany led by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Like many eager young
soldiers who went off to the war under the delusion that he would be
fighting glorious battles in the name of Britain, he quickly came to
realize how brutal and awful the war really was. Not only did he find
the war brutal and horrifying but he, like his comrades went to the war
thinking that it wouldn't last past December and ended up fighting for
their lives for the next four years.
