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On this site you will find many volumes of letters sent by a soldier in the
First World War to his fiancée, family and friends, and their replies to him.
You will also find some entries from his diaries, and a newspaper account of
some events in which he took part. This account was published in the
Yorkshire Post, shortly after the end of the war.
You can find two or more accounts of the same event - using a letter, a diary
entry or the newspaper article. Compare these, to see what they agree on, and if
anything is different. If you find differences, you must decide which is more
likely to be a reliable account. You can write down points of agreement or
difference. You could do this on your own, in pairs or small groups - your
teacher will advise you on this.
To find the sources, you can follow the links at the top of the page, or here.
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here for Cecil Slack's diaries.
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here for Cecil Slack's letters.
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here for the 1919 Yorkshire Post article on
the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.
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