The war-time messages that tell of the loves, laughs and longings of their authors
MAIA HART/STUFF Yours forever: William Trickey Woods was blinded in Gallipoli during World War I. That didn't stop him from writing letters on a typewriter and signing them by hand. Hundreds of letters and pocket diaries – some perfectly intact, some falling apart – are stored away in shoe-boxes and folders across Marlborough. Maia Hart speaks to their safe-keepers to commemorate this year’s Anzac Day. William Trickey Woods, World War I MAIA HART/STUFF William Trickey Woods and Leila Ethel May Woods (nee Mills) pictured on their wedding day. When William Woods was blinded at Gallipoli...
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