Tommy’s Tunnel: My grandad’s story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge

A novella-length memoir

Tommy Gray was my grandfather. He fought in The Great War and fraternised with the enemy during the Christmas truce of 1914. He witnessed and took part in atrocities that affected the rest of his long life. Plagued by guilt, he suffered in silence until after my grandmother's death. His grief was intolerable and the catalyst to a heartbreaking confession.