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Daily Mail5y
Poignant love letters from the trenches of a WWI soldier his girlfriend found in attic
Poignant love letters written from the trenches of a World War One soldier ... a piece of shrapnel': Astonishing extracts from the WWI lovers' letters Leslie on getting injured on the front ...
Daily Mail3y
From pleas for food and supplies... to haunting last goodbyes: British Tommies' heartfelt letters home from the Trenches of WWI are revealed for first time
Ranging from heartrending goodbyes to pleas for food and sweet treats from home, these letters reveal the horror and appalling conditions of the Trenches ... wrote to his mother, father and ...
Huffington Post UK6y
Here's What Letters From The Trenches of WW1 Look Like As Texts
A selection of letters sent at least 100 years ago by soldiers who fought in the First World War have been reimagined as 21st century iMessages. Texts from the Trenches, launched this week by ...
The Northern Echo16y
Long-lost letters reveal life of man’s father in trenches
LETTERS written 90 years ago from trenches in the First World War have helped a man learn about the father he never knew. John Lindley was helping his mother pack up her belongings for her move ...
Wales Online6y
The letters three WW1 soldiers sent to their mum to shield her from the full horrors of their lives
And those difficulties have been thrown into stark and brutal spotlight by the discovery of more than 100 letters ... in the trenches on the western front. “They write to keep their mother ...
The Independent8y
My father fought in WW1, and my mother learned Esperanto – this is what they would have thought of Brexit
My Dad also used to say that, just to make me mad. Born in 1899 and married to a much younger woman – my mother Peggy was ... He took pictures of the trenches and no-man’s land – cameras ...
The Bolton News21y
Last letter from the trenches
A LETTER from the trenches tells the poignant story of a First World War soldier who was all too aware of his likely fate. Private Thomas Hubbard wrote a letter to his father two weeks before an ...
BBC UK News1mon
WW1 letter found 93 years later
A letter written by a British officer from the Western Front on Christmas Day 1914 has been discovered 93 years on. In it 24-year-old second lieutenant Trevor Bird tells his father William how ... his ...
Illawarra Mercury1mon
Letters from the front: Wollongong teacher's words paint vivid WWI picture
During WWI, letters from the front took an agonisingly long time to reach the hands of anxious families and were also subject to the censor's pen.
The New York Times8mon
LETTER FROM A SOLDIER.; Trenches Fatigue Skirmish Sharpeshooting The Necessity of a Whisky Ration.[Correspondent of the New York Times.]
ON FATIGUE DUTY, BEFORE PETERSBURG, Sept. 16, 1864. In the trenches, on fatigue, skirmish or vidette line, is now the order of the day. My time for keeping you posted in a private's daily ...
Huffington Post UK6y
Here's What Letters From The Trenches of WW1 Look Like As Texts
A selection of letters sent at least 100 years ago by soldiers who fought in the First World War have been reimagined as 21st century iMessages. Texts from the Trenches, launched this week by ...