Thread: Trucks of the Great War

Hi Hogarthde , I hope the Road Transport Hall Of Fame has some success , and they find some old trucks . My Grandfather told me many years ago now , about when he was wounded at The Battle of the Somme . That being in ww1 . He told me that he was waiting on a stretcher along with hundreds of other solders , to be evacuated . They were outside a farm house . He shared a smoke with another wounded solder . His turn came , he was lifted into the back of a truck . As It drove away German Artillery rained down on those left . He said he never new if the solder he shared a smoke with survived . I know It's a bit off topic , but It 's about trucks , and ww1 !!.. Jim

G'day Jim, thanks for your interest; and no it is not off topic.

There is a story in everything , your Grandfather's experience of the Great War is not only of the whole tragic Battle of the Somme, [ tomes of history tell that], his story is of the immediate, personal,event. Leaving a fellow serviceman , sharing a smoke, suffering wounds ,going back in a truck, that was '' his war ''. All the trucks here have stories to tell,......Iwish they could talk

dave