"Doing our Bit for the Country" contains transcripts of 30 letters sent home by Walter Pounds M.M during the First World War. Several letters were written on the battlefields in Flanders and France including the one copied below dated June 1916, others while in hospitals recovering twice from war wounds. "Dear Mother Just a line in hast to you letting you know I am quite safe after the Battle we have had here this last week. I think I told you we were on a short rest but it only lasted a few day as we had quick orders to come back to the firing line & I can tell you we have had a hot time of...
"Doing our Bit for the Country" contains transcripts of 30 letters sent home by Walter Pounds M.M during the First World War. Several letters were wri...