Throughout 1914, we are honoring those who served during World War 1 and their families. Let’s not forget the many beautiful stories of love that emerged from the ashes of this heinous war. My grandmother (from Somerset, England) served as a nurse (a sister) in a military hospital during this war. A soldier named Louis Sparkes from Newfoundland (then a British colony) was admitted to her hospital. He had been shot in the chest and leg, and had spent several days tangled in barbed wire in a muddy trench. During his long recovery, he fell in love with one of the nurses. Louis Sparks and Amy Richards were later married. As a war bride, she left her home and family in Somerset, England to become a wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in the small fishing community of Lower Island Cove in Newfoundlan
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:24:05 +0000
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