Sophie Raworth: My grandfather's war As part of our People's War series of reports, BBC presenter Sophie Raworth tells how her surgeon grandfather devised new treatments that allowed injured coal miners to return to work producing fuel vital to the WW2 war effort. Ernest Alexander NICOLL treating injured miner during WW2 Mansfield General Hospital Harry Parkes was a Bevin Boy during WW2 All four stories from The People's War series will be shown on BBC4 on Tuesday 15 September at 19:00 BST. See also Huw Edwards' grandfather: John Daniel Edwards, Merchant Navy & POW Mishal Husain’s grandfather: Syed Shahid Hamid, 3rd Indian Cavalry Regt, attached RIASC, Burma Reeta Chakrabarti’s father-in-law: Patrick John Rogers HAMILTON, Gordon Highlanders; Indian Army