The Old Front Line

Letters From The Trenches


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A staggering 12 million letters were going to and from the Western Front during the Great War. What was the history of the Royal Engineers Postal Section, how did letters and parcels get to troops in the front line, and how did censorship work for all those letters from the trenches?

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The Old Front LineBy Paul Reed

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