Years ago, an old man said to me, that when he was a lad, he lived in Peterborough. That at the start of the Great War, he used to spend a lot of time on the platforms at Peterborough Railway Station. That when the troop trains came down from Scotland, full of new recruits, they were all laughing and shouting, "You would think they were all going to a gigantic birthday party" were the words he used. Then he said " Three weeks later the hospital trains started coming up the line, and they were all crying." So they would have been taken to hospitals up the line, further north. My grandfather was a male nurse in a hospital at Brighton. He never said anything about it to me. But I have been to The Shastri, the Indian War Memorial on the Downs north of Patcham. This was the open air cremation place for Indian soldiers who died in Brighton Hospital. They were cremated there, and their ashes taken out sea for scattering, because that was their Faith and that was what they wanted. My thinking now is that they were deliberately taken to Brighton because of this, and the soldiers from Scottish Regiments were taken up to Scotland because their relatives were there. It was only in WW2 that men from English locations were admitted to Scottish Regiments, because the terrible loss of life in WW1 had a bad effect on Scottish towns and villages. When I was cycling up there I was amazed at the long lists of names on War Memorials in remote areas. So where the English wounded soldiers were taken I do not know. Maybe someone else does. But what annoyed me last year, on a visit to Blenheim Palace, was to see, on the second floor, a huge painting of a man. I was admiring how clever the artist was, to get the shine on his leather boots so effectively, and the Steward on duty said " Do you know who it is ? Its the Kaiser. " I was very angry to learn this. That a portrait of a man who caused so much suffering should hang in such a building is terrible. End of moan. Diane 10813.