A POSTCARD sent from the trenches during World War I by a soldier to his sweetheart at home finally arrived last week - 92 years after he sent it.

Private Walter Butler wrote to Amy Hicks in 1915, telling her he was alive and well – but the army-issue postcard never made it to her home in Wiltshire.

Mr Butler survived the war, and the couple went on to marry and have children.

The postcard turned up in a postal sorting office, which sent it along last week to the post office near Ms Hicks' address, from where it was delivered to the late couple's daughter – 86-year-old grandmother Joyce Hulbert.