Service Records   Complexion: dark, colour of eyes: grey, Oath taken: January 1915, so help him God, Discharged out the other side: October 1918. To piece together the rest, I have to learn Army.   Gassed in Action. Taken On Strength. Gun Shot Wounds. The sequence repeats—   Like a malevolent scratch in the record. He brought his final wound home And grandfathered me. I try to line up The dates with a history of his Battalion   I’ve cobbled together, from anything within reach Of a holiday laptop on a Bass Coast deck Overlooking a peacetime beach. A pair…