I'm doing a 500 mile road trip in a little Fiat 500 to raise hopefully more than 500 pounds for Macmillan Cancer weaving a tale across Europe involving Great Great Aunt Aggie, her Fiat 126, World War One and my brother David's respect for the Ulster 36th Division's sacrifice at the Somme in 1916

We recently lost my brother David to cancer at the age of 60 and Macmillan were there at the end to help with his passing. We want to remember David and his passions in our own automotive way.

David was a great supporter of the memory of the 36th Ulster Division who suffered horrific losses at the Battle of the Somme. It was at this battle that our Great Great Uncle Francis, and his brother, died on the first day of the campaign with 5,500 other soldiers, leaving his wife, Agnes a widow at a very young age.

Now 'Aunt Aggie' went on to have a very long life. My earliest memories of her were her road trips around Ireland in her Fiat 126, causing chaos where ever she went, dragging my grandmother and a very young and impressionable me along. She once shut down a whole motorway by taking a short cut that left her stranded in the dark on a footbridge that spanned the carriage way that had many people calling the police believing that a light aircraft had crashed onto the bridge....

This instilled a love for me of all things small, Italian and causing chaos ever since.

I wanted to bring the memory of these two people together to fund raise £500 for Macmillan using our tiny, quarter of a century, Fiat Cinquecento, the descendant of Aunt Aggie's little Fiat 126, to road trip nearly 500 miles from our home in Wales, across Europe to visit the war memorials at Thiepval.

It is here that Great Great Uncle Frances name has been carved on a panel and, nearby, is the Ulster Tower, built in 1921 as Northern Ireland's first war memorial, a place very important to David,which he would visit every year in remembrance of the 36th division

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