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WW1 Soldier Leaves Time Capsule Trunk For Grandson

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Channel: Caters Clips · 2018 · News & Politics

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A time capsule containing historic items from the First World War has been recently discovered by a war veterans grandson who never knew what the trunk had inside until he opened it over 30 years later.  

Fred Deighton served in nearly every battle on the Western Front including the Somme and Passchendale and was a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he faced the full horror of the fighting on a daily basis. 

Although he never spoke about his experiences to his family, he left a box full of letters and photographs from the war behind for his grandson Graham Underwood after he died 1976 but he failed to open it until just three weeks ago, making the nostalgic discovery. 

71-year-old Graham, from Wellingborough, said: "I knew there was stuff in there but never appreciated it's significance.

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