Christopher Andrew Palles was my grandfather. He came from an eminent Irish family - his grand uncle was Christopher Palles - Chief Baron Palles - a distinguished jurist. C A P blotted his copy book and was sent to Australia as a remittance man where he beat up his wife while drunk and avoided prison by enlisting in Kitcheners Horse. In Cape Town he impregnated and (maybe) married my grandmother before being wounded on his first day in action, I think at Modderfontein, and then dying the next day Ray Kirsch