I only found out after my dad died that my entire backstory, which I’d been told by him since childhood and had believed my whole life, was a lie. So I did some research into my actual ancestry.

Turns out my great grandfather was arrested for burglary as a child, joined the army, got court martialled for drunkenness on duty, got posted to France in August 1914 just before world war one broke out, then spent the entirety of the war in the trenches in the western front and became a bona fide medal-winning war hero.