53923: Letter from Pte. Leonard Green

This letter from the soldier to his parents describes how he is "on the ship bound for blighty" in the care of the organisation responsible for repatriation on P o W's. By a happy chance it is due to dock in Hull, Yorkshire, which is Pte Green's home town and from which he left for France nearly a year (and almost a lifetime) earlier.

Editor's Comment:
Letter written on headed notepaper: 'The Young Men's Christian Association With The British Prisoners of War Interned in Holland'

Pte. 316448 Leonard E. Green, 1/5th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, was reported Missing in Action on 23rd March 1918 and officially declared dead, twice, before his status as a Prisoner of War was confirmed.