More than 200 letters sent home by soldier serving in the First World War published 100 years on | Autour du Centenaire 14-18 | Scoop.it
From www.itv.com - February 26, 2015 6:32 AM
More than 200 letters sent home by a soldier serving in The Great War are being published 100 years to the day since they were written.

‘Captain JD Hills’ Letters from the Front’ were written between February 1915 and November 1918. Each of the 230 letters will posted to the online blog from today, exactly a century on from the day they were written.

The blog is a partnership project between Leicester City Council’s museums service and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, with support from The Imperial War Museum. It is part of an ongoing programme of events and exhibitions to mark the centenary of the First World War.