Description:These letters are from a series of letters written to Canning & Co. by their employees. This particular series of lettters were written by Private R. Smith of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
"In the 15 years since cataloguing the letters, I have never forgotten the reference number for the collection, I have remembered the names of the soldiers who wrote back to their employers describing so vividly their day-to-day lives and experiences on the frontline, their hopes, concerns, humours, and losses. I remember details with such clarity, because of the way they wrote. So many images from the letters play across my memory whenever WWI is mentioned, from lighting flashing off of bayonets to rats the size of kittens."
Corinna Rayner
Archives & Collections Manager
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