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Each letter provides an enduring snapshot of an impossible moment in time when an individual stares death squarely in the face. Some were written or dictated as the person lay mortally wounded; many were written on the eve of a great charge or battle; others were written by soldiers who experienced premonitions of their death, or by kamikaze pilots and condemned prisoners.
They write of the grim realities of battle, of daily hardships, of unquestioning patriotism or bitter regrets, of religious fervor or political disillusionment, of unrelenting optimism or sinking morale and above all, they write of their love for their family and the desire to return to them one day.
Be it an epitaph dictated on a Napoleonic battlefield, a staunch, unsentimental letter written by a Victorian officer, or an email from a soldier in modern day Afghanistan, these voices speak eloquently and forcefully of the tragedy of war and answer that fundamental human need to say goodbye
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This book has its origins in a BBC Radio 4 documentary of the same name, and I owe Siobhan McClelland a huge debt as that programme was her original idea. Due to a car accident she was unable to make the programme, which was a topic with deep significance to her. Her uncle had penned such a letter before serving in Northern Ireland. Producing that programme took me on a journey into the hearts and minds of some of the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the past three hundred years.
Farewell letters have become a subject that has consumed over three years of my life. I have scoured the worlds archives in search of letters from various conflicts and different nationalities, spoken to thousands of former servicemen and women and heard the memories and stories of bereaved families. In reading whole collections of letters I have found myself becoming incredibly close to those people, privy to intensely private thoughts and emotions. I hope I have done justice to all of the men and women in this book and paid some small tribute to those who pay the ultimate sacrifice in war.
I am deeply indebted to a number of people, and thank everyone who has contributed to this book but particularly wish to thank Gareth Glover, Don Evans, Susie Fleming, Rod Suddaby and staff at Imperial War Museums; Natalia Dannenberg, Alastair Massie at the National Army Museum; Takeshi Kawatoko, Elsie ODell, Sarah Holmes, David Devenny, Tristram Clarke at the National Archives of Scotland; Lisa and Robert Foster, Effie Karageorgos, Marie Perry, Annie Caitlin, BFBS Television & Radio, SSAFA, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the Royal British Legion, Jane Ellison at the BBC and Terry Lewis at Tinderbox. I would also like to thank Michael Leventhal at Frontline Books and project manager Jessica Cuthbert-Smith for their patience and encouragement throughout.
Finally, I want to thank friends, family and loved ones who have joined me on this often-emotional ride providing support, enthusiastic encouragement and a running reminder on looming deadlines!
1: Courtesy of the Duke of Lancasters Regiment Museum
2: Courtesy of Mahn und Gedenksttten Wbbelin Background to plates 1 & 2: Staffordshire Record Office
3: With thanks to the Rhode Island Historical Society (J.A. ONiell, RHi X3)
6: Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal
7: Courtesy of the Handcock family
Background to plates 7 & 8: Australian War Memorial (negative number 3DRL/3834) and with kind permission of the Handcock family
9, 10, 11, 22 and background to plates 10 & 11: Imperial War Museums
12: Canadian Letters and Images Project
13: Australian War Memorial (negative number H16398)
15: Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office
16: Courtesy of the Binning family
17: Courtesy of the Neufeld family
19and background to plates 19 & 20: Second World War Experience Centre
20: Courtesy of the Chiran Peace Museum
21: Courtesy of Ted Courtright
23: Courtesy of Christine Mates
24: Courtesy of David Morgan
25: Courtesy of Sara Jones
26: Courtesy of the Howell family
27: Courtesy of Jos Scaglia
28: Courtesy of Helen OPray
29and background to plates 28 & 29: Courtesy of Melissa Givens
30: Courtesy of Eddie Hancock
31: Courtesy of the Downes family
32: Courtesy of the Olmsted family
Colonel Bob Stewart, Former British Army Officer.
87/232, Australian War Memorial.
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Barrie Jay, Early Forces Mail, Gloucester: The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, 1997, p. 5.
Mills Lane (ed.), Dear Mother: Dont Grieve About me. If I Get Killed, Ill Only BE Dead. Letters from Georgia Soldiers in the Civil War , Savannah, GA, Beehive Press, 1977, p. xii.
With kind permission of Judith Wiles.
The Papers of Reverend E.V. Tanner, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museums.
8804-32, Captain Philip Wodehouse, National Army Museum.
H.F.B Wheeler and A.M. Broadley, Napoleon and the Invasion of England , Stroud, Nonsuch Publishing, 2007, p. 7.
David A. Bell, The First Total War , London, Bloomsbury, 2007, p. 223.
Every county had their own militia units, where each man signed up for five years.
National Museum of Scotland.
Andrew Uffindell, The National Army Museum Book of Wellingtons Armies , Oxford, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2003, p. 187.
Wheeler and Broadley, Napoleon and the Invasion of England , p. 76.
9/34/46, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Wheeler and Broadley, Napoleon and the Invasion of England , p. 215.
Bell, The First Total War , p. 41.
RSR MS 1/46, West Sussex Record Office.
4479/1-3, Staffordshire Record Office.
12571/8, Bristol Record Office.
Uffindell, The National Army Museum Book of Wellingtons Armies , p. 141.
1980-09-9, National Army Museum.
12571/8, Bristol Record Office.
Peter Snow, To War with Wellington , London: John Murray, 2010, p. 41.
John Goldworth Alger, Paris in 1789 94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine , London, George Allen, 1902, p. 52.
There are references to literate soldiers writing letters for the illiterate.
9/34/46/4, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Gareth Glover, Waterloo Archive , Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2011, Vol. 4.
Ian Fletcher (ed.), In the Service of the King , Staplehurst, Spellmount, 1997, p. 29.
AMS 6185/6, East Sussex Record Office.
23M93/15/1/58, Hampshire Record Office.
DD/WD/105/1, Nottinghamshire Archives.
RSR MS 1/46, West Sussex Record Office.
Thought to be a mixture of typhus, malaria, dysentery and typhoid.
Around thirty-five pounds as a modern equivalent.
4479/1-3, Staffordshire Record Office.
With thanks to Captain Gregory M. Gorsuch, MSC, USN, Ret.
DD/798/16, Nottinghamshire Archives.
3450/54, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Uffindell, The National Army Museum Book of Wellingtons Armies , p. 21.
12571/8, Bristol Record Office.
Fletcher, In the Service of the King , p. 193.
D2375/68/5, Derbyshire Record Office.
RSR MS 1/46, West Sussex Record Office.
413/382, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Uffindell, The National Army Museum Book of Wellingtons Armies , p. 153.
WI/5508, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives.
D2375/68/5, Derbyshire Record Office.
DD/798/16, Nottinghamshire Archives.
540/222, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Uffindell, The National Army Museum Book of Wellingtons Armies , p. 22.
Ibid., p. 312.
Fletcher, In the Service of the King , p. 99.
1980-09-9, National Army Museum.
451/547, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
D593/B/1/22/33A, Staffordshire Record Office.
http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/obitandbiog_Captain_George_Duff_Memoir.htm.
WI/5508, Bedfordshire & Luton Archives.
Christopher Lee, Nelson and Napoleon: The Long Haul to Trafalgar , London, Headline, 2005, p. 320.
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