Below are some extracts from letters sent to the Bromley & District Times by various soldiers fighting on the front line during World War 1.
They give a fascinating and moving insight into their daily lives and their thoughts of about the war.
Letter from the Front: Harold Parker #1
Taken from the Bromley & District Times on 9th March 1917, pg 6 Extracts from a letter from Corporal Harold Parker, the Royal West Kent ...
Poetry from the Front Line
A Poem from G.R. SOLDIER’S LAMENT ON A DULL EVENING If this were June – sweet month of sun and roses – And all the ...
Private L.W. Johnson
Taken from the Bromley & District Times, 25th December, 1917 (pg 3) I thought you might like to have a few lines from one of ...