The creeping shadow of the Great War and its bloody aftermath was yet to come as little Tom Kealey played happily in the fields and hop gardens around his new home. Soon the dark clouds of war gathered as a line of men marched out of the small Kentish village to join the thousands of others who were dug deep and dying in the clinging mud of the Somme. Growing into manhood, Tom developed a natural ability to handle a gun as a gamekeeper in the woods. Little did he realise how it would be put to good use when he enlisted into the "Gunners." With the Second World War looming, he would be sent to...