Amid all the public commemorations that are marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Bishop of the Forces, Richard Moth, is also pondering a poignant personal story connected with the conflict.Speaking on last week’s Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4, Bishop Moth has described how his grandmother, Emily, was engaged to marry a soldier, Ernest, in the Rifle Brigade but he was killed in the first weeks of the war. Emily later went on to marry his older, widowe
24 July 2014, The Tablet
Family shaped by conflict
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