Describe the aftermath situation of war in a family that lost two sons in the war. How would each member in the family react to that news and how are the emotions exhibited this can be real or imaginative
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First World War: Losing one child in war is a terrible thing, so just imagine losing five
The multiple deaths of brothers in arms is the Great War’s last untold tragedy

Wilfred Smith: the intervention in 1918 of the local vicar’s wife in writing to Queen Mary, the wife of George V, may well have saved the life of Mrs Smith’s final son, Wilfred Photo: Guzelian
By Anthony Seldon
6:40AM GMT 21 Feb 2014
Every parent’s nightmare is to lose a child. “It confounds the natural order,” is the reaction of parents when the tragedy occurs.
Imagine then the utter horror of losing more than one child, as occurred in the First World War to the Smith family from Barnard Castle in County Durham, whose story is told in a new BBC documentary. They lost no fewer than five of their six sons in the trenches, two in 1916, two in 1917, and one in 1918. Their broken father himself died in 1918, leaving the mother to spend the rest of her life absorbing the loss alone. The intervention in 1918 of the local vicar’s wife in writing to Queen Mary, the wife of George V, may well have saved the life of Mrs Smith’s final son, Wilfred. Buckingham Palace contacted the War Office, and he was spared serving on the front line. Wilfred went on to have five children and lived to the age of 72.
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First World War: Losing one child in war is a terrible thing, so just imagine losing five
The multiple deaths of brothers in arms is the Great War’s last untold tragedy

Wilfred Smith: the intervention in 1918 of the local vicar’s wife in writing to Queen Mary, the wife of George V, may well have saved the life of Mrs Smith’s final son, Wilfred Photo: Guzelian
By Anthony Seldon
6:40AM GMT 21 Feb 2014
Every parent’s nightmare is to lose a child. “It confounds the natural order,” is the reaction of parents when the tragedy occurs.
Imagine then the utter horror of losing more than one child, as occurred in the First World War to the Smith family from Barnard Castle in County Durham, whose story is told in a new BBC documentary. They lost no fewer than five of their six sons in the trenches, two in 1916, two in 1917, and one in 1918. Their broken father himself died in 1918, leaving the mother to spend the rest of her life absorbing the loss alone. The intervention in 1918 of the local vicar’s wife in writing to Queen Mary, the wife of George V, may well have saved the life of Mrs Smith’s final son, Wilfred. Buckingham Palace contacted the War Office, and he was spared serving on the front line. Wilfred went on to have five children and lived to the age of 72.
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