No sisters until mother got married again, and me  sister as I call her now, she's me of course my half sister, Jessie, she was born  I'd be about seventeen  cos she didn't get married till after the First World War, remarried  me step-father was in the forces and  he fought, he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a  a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War, nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen, but er  I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me, Frank, which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble,tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels, see he died in, on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital, but that was the old infirmary  cos we there was no widow's pension in those days, our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do  have an old fashioned clamp, have you ever seen the clamps that are leather,th tha they held them, the leather, she used to stitch bridles at home, we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread, and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it, we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles.