A WOMAN from Dalton has spoken of her excitement of learning the true nature of her grandfather s experience of the First World War 55 years on after discovering an old newspaper article covering the whole saga. Great-grandmother Elaine Raven explained that her grandfather Joseph Walter Kipling, who died when she was in her early teens, was part of the Kings Own regiment had actually suffered a bayonet to the lung which saw an end to his time at war in 1915. HAPPY: Elaine Raven as a child with her grandfather He had found himself out in no man s land at the Somme dodging bullets, when jumping down into the trench, he landed on a bayonet which pierced his left lung.