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Captain Hills letters to be published
Posted on 2nd Mar 2015 by Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Over 200 letters sent home during the Great War by Captain John D Hills of the 1/5th Bn The Leicestershire Regiment are to be published 100 years to the day since they were written. His ‘Letters from the Front’ started being published as an online blog on Thursday 26 Feb 2015 and will continue until 2018. In the first four days, the blog received over 10,000 ‘hits’ from around the world! The letters can be read at: www.ww1lettersfromthefront.wordpress.com