![]() 'My Dearest Will, I feel I must write you again dear altho there is not much news to tell you. Please don't be alarmed, all is well that ends well (and this did for us). The weather is beastly but Mrs and Miss Willy are jolly people, hoping you are all well, love to all. We have some relics some wire and wood framework. The Zepp was bombed from an aeroplane above, with an incendiary bomb by a Lieutenany Robertson (Johnson?). One had his legs off at the knees, and you could see the joint! ![]() They were brown, like the outside of Roast Beef. They were roasted, there is absolutely no other word for it. I would rather not describe the condition of the crew, of course they were dead - burnt to death. It went slightly to the right, and crashed down into a field!! It was about a 100 yards away from the house and directly opposite us!!! It nearly burnt itself out, when it was finished by the Cheshunt Fire Brigade. That light appeared again and we Miss Blair, Poolman and I rushed to the window and looked out and there right above us was the Zepp! It had broken in half, and was like this: it was in flames, roaring, and crackling. Suddenly a bright yellow light appeared and died down again. We saw flashes and then heard "Bangs" and "Pops". We were all awake by now, we had a Miss Blair staying with us for the weekend. Miss Willy woke Poolman and told him to wake me. Between 2 'clock and 2.30 o'clock, Lily (the servant) woke Miss Willy and told her she could hear the guns. Here is my story: I heard the clock strike 11 o'clock. But this I know because I saw, and so did everyone else in the house. I have heard that it raided London (up the Strand) and caused heavy causalities. 'Dear Daddy, I hope you are not alarmed, you should not be, unless you know where one of the Zepps went. ![]() We hold around 7,500 collections of personal letters from the First World War in our archives. Letters written on the home front to family and friends are today a fascinating source of information about everyday life in wartime Britain. Receiving letters from family and friends was also vital to morale, keeping men and women connected to the homes they had left behind. However, in practice, men often found ways to impart information, and their letters offer a powerful and highly personal insight into the experience of war. Censorship dictated what servicemen were permitted to disclose in their letters. Soldiers wrote letters in spare moments, sometimes from front line trenches or in the calmer surroundings behind the lines. In 1917 alone, over 19,000 mailbags crossed the English Channel each day, transporting letters and parcels to British troops on the Western Front. The British Army Postal Service delivered around 2 billion letters during the war. During the First World War, letter writing was the main form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones, helping to ease the pain of separation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |