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Personal stories about WW1You are in: Hereford and Worcester > World War 1 > Personal stories about WW1 > My grandfather's grave  Ovillers Cemetery in France My grandfather's graveby Diana Trigg Diane from Bromsgrove talks about the moving message on her grandfather's gravestone in France. She also recounts how the news that he'd been killed in World War One was broken to the family. World War I factsGreat Britain spent 拢3,334,174,005 on the army alone during the Great War - that's 拢158 billion, at today's prices. The average DAILY expenditure by Great Britain on the war by 1918 was 拢7,443,000 - that's 拢355m pounds a day at 2006 prices. The British army fired 170,385,295 shells during the war. On the 28/29 September 1918 the cost of the artillery shells fired was 拢3,871,000 - that 拢184m at today's prices. During the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme the British Army fired 3,526,000 shells - that's 75,000 tons of high explosive. Source: Statistics of the military effort of the British Empire during the Great War - published by the War Office in 1922My grandfather, Arthur Lenthall, died in the military hospital at St Omer on May 19 1918. My dad, then aged seven, remembered the telegram boy coming a month earlier to say Arthur was injured but in hospital. The telegram boy returned one month later giving the telegram to my dad - he put this behind the clock for his mum. It contained the terrible news that the hospital had been bombed. I visited the grave for the first time ten years ago - a beautiful small cemetery, incredibly moving. There I found my grandfather's grave, alongside many nurses and medical personnel, all killed on the same day. Most moving of all however were the words on the gravestone, which read: "Your loving wife Edie and the children who will never forget you." Although he was not forgotten, I was听the first family member to have ever visited his grave. last updated: 11/11/2008 at 10:47 SEE ALSOYou are in: Hereford and Worcester > World War 1 > Personal stories about WW1 > My grandfather's grave
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