Tag: letters from home

WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 28 – A Letter from a Father

November 18, 2016

Second Lieutenant Eric Douglas Smart’s father wrote this letter and sent it to his son, who was serving with the 10thBn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment on the Western Front, on 18 November 1916. My dear little boy, As you say it does really seem sometimes as though the war has reached a deadlock. That is quite … More WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 28 – A Letter from a Father

WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 23 – On the Eve of Battle

June 30, 2016

On this night, one hundred years ago, men were packed into trenches and billets all along the battle front of the Somme. Overhead, shells continued to fly from the heavy artillery that had been pounding the German lines for weeks. This bombardment, their officers assured them, would destroy the barbed wire, the machine gun posts, … More WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 23 – On the Eve of Battle