STACY SQUIRES
Paul Jarman, a farmer at Darfield, speaks about his grandfather and two great uncles, who served overseas in the First World War, and about the letters they wrote home.
For one Canterbury family, the impact of the First World War was particularly harsh. More than 100 years on, those memories are fresh in the minds of their descendants, thanks to a wealth of wartime correspondence, Grant Shimmin reports. “Dear Charlie . “On Friday, October 12 we hopped off at 5.30am and had not gone 400 yards when Dick was mortally wounded and died instantly. He was just behind me and I turned around to look after him, but he never spoke again.