53923: Letter from Pte. Leonard Green

<p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">Editor's Comment: <br>Letter written on headed notepaper: 'The Young Men's Christian Association With The British Prisoners of War Interned in Holland'</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p>