Sidney Gobourn was a soldier with the Royal Cameron Highland Regiment.At the 
Battle of Arras he was wounded and lost his sight.He lay for two days in No 
Man`s Land but managed to get back to the trenches by dragging a fellow 
soldier who was so badly injured he could not walk.Sidney was the legs and 
his friend shouted out directions.

Back in the UK the Colonel`s sister was a regular hospital visitor and read 
to the injured soldiers.After one visit the Hospital sister asked Sidney when 
he was going to ask Kathleen to marry him "I have seen the way she looks at 
you".

He was from a poor family in  Wolverhampton and she was landed gentry and 10 
years older than Sidney.However despite the disapproval of her family(her 
father never spoke to her again)they did get married and had 56 years 
together.He trained as a physiotherapist after the war and was well known and 
repected in Cheltenham where they settled.The family are still in 
possessionof the Bible that he had with him at the time he was injured.Sidney 
died in 1976 aged 80