WWI Trench Letter.

[BlackAce]

Hi, this is a letter from my Great Great Great Great uncle.  He fought on the Canadian Side in the First World War.  I was looking thorugh the family archives up in Canada, and discovered this letter written to his mother on November 17th, 1917.  This is a three page letter, and I only took a photo of the front page, due to how old it is.  He was later killed one week after he sent his letter.






(And being the History nerd that I am, couldn't resistce adding a little but more to the thead )

[ozzy72]

What a great thing to have. I recently found some medals and regimental buttons and cap badge belonging to one of my great-great uncles who was killed in WW1 the day before his regiment was pulled back from the front line.
I'm going to make a display for them, these things are special.

[Apex]

That's quite an item there.

It would be interesting to read a transcription of this letter.

I would advise you to at least transcribe the contents into a computer file in order to archive and protect the contents.

My father's WW2 letters to his mother:

[BlackAce]

When I found it, it was still in the envelope that it was sent in; there's also a medal that he won, and I have all the pictures of his stuff on my computer

[BFMF]

Wow...that's amazing. My Aunt has a lot of letters that my grandfather wrote to his parents while he was deployed overseas during WW2. Some of them have text cut out from the military censors. I have never read them, but I have seen them.

[beaky]

That is very cool. My grandfather also spent a year in the mud in France in WWI... never saw any of his letters, but I was told that he would always write three versions, to cover various family needs: one in Russian, one in Yiddish, and one in English.