Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Subject matches "Letters and documents" or its children
Back to search results
Sorting letters from "Blighty" at the British front
Unknown, 1916, Press cutting, Reproduction
Item
of 63
Sorting letters from "Blighty" at the British front
Sorting letters from "Blighty" at the British front
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Library Item
Item no
32686
Title
News from home: sorting letters from "Blighty" at the British front
Description
From the Illustrated London News published August 26th 1916.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1916
Size
39.6 x 26.7cm
Type
Press cutting
;
Reproduction
Over 12 million letters a week were sent to British troops during WWI. They all went through a sorting office in Regent's Park before being loaded on to ships bound for the continent. It was the job of the Royal Engineers Postal Section to deliver the mail to the soldiers and letters only took two days to get to the front. Letters were important for morale both for the soldiers and for their families at home. They were subject to censorship to keep morale high and avoid giving tactical information to the enemy. 375,000 letters a day were censored and by the end of the war two billion letters had been sent to the front.
Read history as it happened with free access to the
Scotsman Digital Archive
.
You can search the entire 1914-19 archives of the
Illustrated London News
online.
Exhibitions with this item
ILN During WWI: Maintaining Morale
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
Communication
>
Post and telegraph
>
Letters and documents
Events
>
Wars
>
World wars
People
>
Military activities
>
Soldiers
Places
>
Europe
>
France
More like this