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Remembrence meme
My great uncles. One died leading his men over the top, the other died of Spanish flu before ever reaching the front.
I have the letters that Charles wrote to his sister Mabel (my grandmother and the only sibling to survive the war). He loved his sister, joked to her, and at the same time revealed so much about life in the trenches by the things that he asked them to send him. The request for a flea belt is so evocative of what it must have been like.
I have the letters that Charles wrote to his sister Mabel (my grandmother and the only sibling to survive the war). He loved his sister, joked to her, and at the same time revealed so much about life in the trenches by the things that he asked them to send him. The request for a flea belt is so evocative of what it must have been like.