The First World War Letters of Philip and Ruth Hewetson

摘要

This attractive volume reflects the parts played in the Great War by Philip and Ruth Hewetson, the children of the Rev William Hewetson, vicar of Salhouse with Wroxham in the Norfolk Broads, and his wife Kathleen. Philip Hewetson served as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment between volunteering in 1914 and his death as a prisoner of war in July 1918, aged 24, and his sister Ruth Hewetson worked as a General Service Member of a Volunteer Aid Detachment at the huge Fargo military hospital on Salisbury Plain in 1918. Philip's war is recorded in 246 letters from him to his family and Ruth's in 60 letters to her parents.