Leighton, Roland, Letter, 20-21 April 1915

Letter, Roland Leighton dated April 20, 1915.
Description: 
to Vera Brittain

Tabs

Case Study: 
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator: 
Leighton, Roland
Source: 
letter
Date: 
20-21 April 1915
Place: France
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
00001445-4
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

part of the war and lain forgotten all this time. The ground was slightly marshy and the body had sunk down into it so that only the toes of his boots stuck up above the soil. His cap and equipment were just by the side, half-buried and rotting away. I am having a mound of earth thrown over him, to add one more to the other little graves in the wood.
You do not mind my telling you these gruesome things, do you? You asked me to tell you everything. It is of such things that my new life is made.
Wednesday 21st
I had no opportunity to finish this yesterday.