They died only a few miles apart and yet there cannot be a bigger contrast between their legacies. The Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediately forgotten, even, it seems, by his own family.Įdward died on exactly the same day, and as part of the same military offensive, as Wilfred Owen. Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.īut this is not just his story it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their country
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