Army
Heartbreaking Letters of the First World War Revealed
Heartbreaking letters from grieving families in the First World War have been revealed after being kept in an Army trunk for 100 years. Captain Evan Silk had the grim task of writing to families from the trenches to tell them their relative had died. He received hundreds of letters thanking him for informing them along with pleas for further information.
His son Paul has released the archive to the public and Kate Wathall went to see them.
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