John Wilcox shares his family's story of WWI, in which his father and six uncles all fought and all, amazingly, returned home.

http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/3965-my-heroic-uncle

Seven brothers who all fought on the front line of World War I and all survived. John Wilcox talks about his father and uncles who between them brought home a Military Medal, a Distinguished Conduct Medal and the highest honour of them all, a Victoria Cross in the Sunday Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/real-band-brothers---seven-3434250

John Wilcox, author of WWI-set novel Starshine, visits the Somme battlefield where his father fought in 1916. Hear more about his family's remarkable wartime experiences on BBC Midlands Today with the iPlayer.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b041swcp/Midlands_Today_29_04_2014/?t=11m46s