Remembrance. I got it wrong.

A piece I wrote 5 years ago for The Guardian.

A few houses away from me, a young man died. Sergeant Sutton from the London Regiment was killed in 1918. He was 22, the son of Harry and Rebecca. A couple of doors down, a 19-year-old died. An Irish family who lived nearby lost Private Patrick Joseph O’Brien. On the next road, the neighbours at Nos 72 and 74…