Hi, this is a letter from my Great Great Great Great uncle.  He fought on the Canadian Side in the First World War.  I was looking thorugh the family archives up in Canada, and discovered this letter written to his mother on November 17th, 1917.  This is a three page letter, and I only took a photo of the front page, due to how old it is.  He was later killed one week after he sent his letter.






(And being the History nerd that I am, couldn't resistce adding a little but more to the thead )

That's quite an item there.

It would be interesting to read a transcription of this letter.

I would advise you to at least transcribe the contents into a computer file in order to archive and protect the contents.

My father's WW2 letters to his mother: 

When I was young, I saw them, and asked for them, but Grandma wouldn't part with them, I guess that was understandable. 

When she passed away in 1982 at age 90+, my Aunt sent a bunch of her things to my father, but the letters were not there, and I had forgotten about them, so I didn't ask where they were. 

If my cousin had them when my Aunt passed, she should have, I would think, sent them to me.  Knowing my cousin, she would have probably just thrown them out had she seen them.

So they somehow got lost or probably thrown away by whoever, not realizing just how important they could be historically.  

Dad was on Saipan and Okinawa, 102nd Combat Engineers, 27th Army Division.   That's real WW2 history.  There could have been some personal accounts of what he saw.

You are fortunate to have that letter.  Take good care of it.

Wow...that's amazing. My Aunt has a lot of letters that my grandfather wrote to his parents while he was deployed overseas during WW2. Some of them have text cut out from the military censors. I have never read them, but I have seen them.