You go to school until you're thirteen.
You follow your father into your job as an engine fitter. You join the army in 1914 as a Private Officer and are promoted to become Lance Corporal.
You enjoy watching cricket on Saturday afternoons. On the way home from work you read the Daily Mail to learn about strikes, crimes and sporting results or Tit Bits magazine which keeps you up to date on scandal, jokes and stories. You enjoy exchanging gossip with your friends at the music hall on a Friday night.
You live in a small terraced house with your parents, wife and two of your children. You have four children but two will be servants living with their employers and sending money back when they can. As a treat you buy fish and chips from one of the shops on the parade near your home. Your family share an allotment by the railway line where you grow potatoes, carrots and sweet peas.
You marry twice, due to the death of your first wife.
You're killed on the beaches at Gallipoli in 1915.
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