A Soldier's Story-Family, Love & War

A Soldier’s Story-Family, Love & War

Family-A family is separated by the Atlantic Ocean when The Great War began in 1914. The father is in Canada and his wife and children are stranded in a starving England. Bob Gee vows to reunite with his family or die trying.
He had sailed from Liverpool, England aboard a British Settler ship as a steerage passenger headed to Canada in 1913, with the good intentions of providing a better life for his wife Alice and their seven children. By early 1914 he had saved enough money to bring the family to Canada. Alice and the children prepared to board an ocean liner to re-unite with Bob in Canada when The Great War began shattering all of their plans and their lives.
He finds himself trapped in Canada while his family remains stranded in England. It is far too dangerous for his family to cross the Atlantic to join him in Canada where he tried to establish a better life for them. The German U-boats are lurking under the sea to sink any ship, military or civilian that attempts to sail the Atlantic. Robert Gee must find another way to re-unite with his family. He finds it by joining the Canadian Army as a gunner and is soon in route to the death trap trenches of France with a brief stopover in England to see his family. The Canadian Army, the Canadian Expeditionary Forces welcomed Bob Gee with open arms because he was an experienced gunner in the Artillery with five years of experience in the Lancashire Fusiliers militia in the early 1900’s.

Love-Young charismatic Robert Scott Howe (Rob) the nephew of Bob Gee joins the Canadian Army to fight alongside Britain against the Germans. He becomes part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. By chance, he meets a beautiful woman at a hospital in Hastings England. Is it love at first sight? Will they survive the horrible war to make a life together?

War-Millions of British soldiers die on the bloody battlefields of the European Western Front. The unbearable conditions of the Battle of Gallipoli on coast of Turkey take its toll on the brave young soldiers of England. Unknown to Bob Gee, while he was in Canada, his son, young Bobbie Gee, aged 17, answered “the call to arms” and he joined the Lancashire Fusiliers of the British Army to fight for England. This brave young soldier pays the ultimate sacrifice. How many loved ones will not return from this terrible war?
Will the Gee and Howe Families survive and persevere this horrifying time in history? Will their war wounds ever heal? Will they be able to live a normal life again? Will the mustard poison gas continue to burn their lungs until they die before their time? The struggle on the home front for Alice and the children as well as the fight for survival of the soldiers on the battlefields has begun.