Letters from the Trenches

Dear Diary, I have just arrived here in France and already I can tell that the recruitment was a lie. The weather is horrible. Since being h...

Soldiers Full Name: Charles McKinley Soldier's Service Number: 2616 Date of Birth: 23 April 1876 Place of Birth: Albion Park, NSW      ...

 Primary  An assortment of national archives documents. "Charles McKinley." National Archive: Army-WW1 . 4/9/11. http://recor...

Dear Mum, I really miss you. It is starting to get horrible here. Winter has come and gone. Our trenches became swimming pools of mud with t...