Complex sentence: During the First World War the family home of Sulhamstead Abbots, in Berkshire, was used as a hospital and it was here that she met James Nagle, an Irishman who had emigrated to Canada and was fighting with the Canadian Highlanders and 60th Rifles.
Split into simpler sentences: During the First World War, the family home of Sulhamstead Abbots, in Berkshire, was used as a hospital. It was here that she met James Nagle, an Irishman who had emigrated to Canada and was fighting with the Canadian Highlanders and 60th Rifles.