Horace Iles is the young lad featured in One
Boy. Marjorie is his niece, herself a grandmother,
and she still thinks about him today, even
though he died in 1916. She has told her own sons
and her grandchildren all about him. This is what
she says:
‘To
have an uncle killed when he was a young
boy meant that I could never hear actually
from him, but know of him only through stories.
As a child I grew up listening to my
father, grandmother and auntie Florrie (Horace’s
sister) speaking at intervals about my uncle
Horace. There was a photograph of him on
my grandmother's sideboard; there was also,
in my grandmother's home a miniature coronation
chair that he had carved at school (I now
have this chair). He became a distant figure
in my imagination.
It was extremely heart
touching to see "One Boy"
and realise my uncle's story was at long
last being told.’
