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PoW's Love Letters Published After A Century

Discussion in 'Military History' started by GRW, Apr 6, 2018.

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    "The letters of a World War One prisoner to his family are to be released by Glasgow University a century after they were written.
    Seven months of correspondence between Prof Archibald Allan Bowman and his wife Mabel have been curated by student Petros Aronis.
    The first letter was published on a social media account on Thursday.
    The others will be gradually released to show how it must have felt to wait for news of a loved one.
    Written between April 1918 and November 1918, they will be published 100 years later in the order they were written.
    Mr Aronis, from Athens, has curated the Bowman project on Instagram called Letters from A Prisoner of War 1918.
    He said: "There are beautiful and touching sentiments expressed in the letters.
    "It also shows the vital role, those on the home front had in providing prisoners of war with food and provisions parcels to keep them feed and clothed in the camps.
    "In this project, as well as putting them into chronological order, I also have tried to highlight how the letters were impacted by the war."
    Wartime love letters published online
     
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