Letters Bob wrote home from the trenches and elsewhere, November 1914 to December 1917, mostly to his Mother and Sisters, but also towards the end of the war excerpts from his letters to his sweetheart Elsie. The letters were copied from the originals into a notebook during 1917 by Margaret, Bob’s sister. They are wonderfully detailed and at times very emotional, covering not only the horrors of the trenches but also training, life billeted behind the front line, and hospitalisation. A snapshot of real social history.