For Remembrance Day, we read real letters written during the First World War.

Real voices. Real words. Letters written in the middle of a war that still speak to us today.


References:


The National Archives – Letters from the First World War (1915): “Trenches: mostly ‘mere boys’”

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/trenches-mostly-mere-boys/


Imperial War Museums – Letter concerning the burning of a Zeppelin at Cuffley, Hertfordshire (September 1916)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030005513


National Army Museum – Rifleman William Eve: Winter on the Western Front (January 1915)

https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/rifleman-william-eve/


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