Recent Posts Tagged With 'letters'

• The Work of the Censor.

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 07:05 in letters

  This article from ‘The Times’ dated 12th May 1915, gives an amusing anecdote with regard to the work of the censors.You have to admire the soldiers pluck trying his luck with a variety of women!A Soldiers Love Letters."Describing the work of the ...

• Letter Arrived Too Late.

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 05:05 in letters

  This article comes from the fantastic book “Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France” by Vernon Bartlett.This part of the book describes a night in a trench, when Barlett as an officer looks on his men.Carrying on the theme of letters to ...

• Letters from the Wounded.

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 10:51 in letters, postal services

  This moving artcle comes from the book On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Innes Logan.Innes Logan was Chaplin to the Forces from September 1914 to May 1916. In the aftermath of the Battle of Loos in September 1915, he worked at a...

• How Letters Reach Our Soldiers in the Field.

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 05:32 in letters, postal services

  This article comes from ‘The Great War in a Different Light’. The Army's Monster Mail by Basil Clarke was originally published in ‘the War Illustrated’ 1st September, 1917.It gave the families at home a good indication of what happened to the...