He had retired from the Army some years before with the rank of Major, and lived with his mother--he was a man of means--in Wellingsford.

In the June of that year he went off salmon fishing in Norway.

On the outbreak of war he returned to England and luckily got his job at once.

He did not come back to Wellingsford.

His mother went to London and stayed there until he was ordered out to the front.