"Miles of devastation and deserted villages and shell-holes. The ground is just as it was left. Rifles with the bayonets fixed lie as they were dropped; limbers smashed and half-buried by shell-fire; perforated shrapnel helmets - German and British; equipment, boots, ammunitions, stretchers, derelict aeroplanes, and tanks."
Rowland Feilding served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. Whilst on active service, he wrote to his wife regularly. He promised his wife that his letters home would be honest about life (and death) on the front line. The result is an extraordinary set of war letters.
Feilding took part in the first and second battles of the Somme, as well as the dramatic British retreat during the German “spring offensive”. His letters are important eyewitness accounts, and Letters from the Somme will be of interest to anybody who wants to know what the British Army went through on the Somme.
Rowland Feilding served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. Whilst on active service, he wrote to his wife regularly. He promised his wife that his letters home would be honest about life (and death) on the front line. The result is an extraordinary set of war letters.
Feilding took part in the first and second battles of the Somme, as well as the dramatic British retreat during the German “spring offensive”. His letters are important eyewitness accounts, and Letters from the Somme will be of interest to anybody who wants to know what the British Army went through on the Somme.
