My Grandmother died of the Spanish Flu. My Dad was 5 months old.
“My Grandmother died of the Spanish Flu. My Dad was 5 months old.”
I believe (But I could be wrong) it was the author Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) whose father spent 4-years in the trenches of WW1 with only one trip home to recuperate from a minor wound. He came back home at Christmas in 1918 to find his wife and older children dead of the Spanish Flu. Anthony (Conceived during the one trip back) was a toddler who had somehow managed to avoid getting the flu.
Needless to say the elder Mr. Burgess was somewhat nuts from then on.