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With today’s internet a wealth of official information is available regarding those who served.
In an age before local radio and television, families often allowed letters to be published in the local press from their loved ones on active service. However, for their descendants the letters reveal a more personal aspect, graphically describing the experience of the people and providing an insight into their personalities. |
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NBT 1915 June 22nd Tue. Private Henry King, of the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment, was officially reported as having been killed in action on Wednesday, May 5th, 1915. Last week his widow received a letter from a Scottish soldier, which stated that while the troops were engaged in taking another line of trenches, he had picked up a small Testament. This, given to him by his mother, had belonged to Private King, who had been gassed. The soldier writes; “I am sorry to say we have lost a good many of our poor chaps through the same thing, but more so in your poor husband’s Regiment. I can assure you that he is buried, and a wooden cross placed over his head, which I made myself.” (Aged 30, Private King leaves a widow, and two little boys.)
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN BOOK FORM AS ‘LETTERS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR’ FROM WWW. LULU.COM,
PRODUCED WITH THE INVALUABLE EXPERTISE OF ALAN KAY & ZENA DAN. |
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