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jrah60 Administrator
Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 1915 Location: East Kilbride
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject: WW1: How did 12 million letters a week reach soldiers? |
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, i heard the jeremy vine show today where it was discussed, they had folk phone up and read bits of letters their ancestors wrote home from the front.
An amazing feat. |
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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It is amazing what they did then.
The postal service we have today is an extortionate shambles by comparision, especially if you live in NB. It was better when Dick Turpin was about. _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Another thing i heard on the radio was a foreigner mentioning something he had been notified of, in the evening mail....... |
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