'In case I do not return, always call him William in memory of me,' he said.
As Edith waved her husband off from the platform of Shrewsbury railway station, she cradled her newborn son in her arms.Within 10 months he was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres in Flanders.
"He served with Distinction in The Boer War, South Africa and was awarded The South Africa Medal with five clasps," says Allan. Pte Caswell was once more called up, only to be killed at a place called Railway Wood on May 12, 1915 at the age of 34.His body was never recovered, but he is named on The Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium."He was one of the heroic 'Stonewallers' who stopped the onrush of Germans on May 13," said the report.
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