LIKE many others, I read the weekly entries in Echo Memories of Gunner George James’s daily diary of the carnage on the Western Front during the First World War (Echo, Jan-Jul). His writing brought home to me the reality of the conflict of 100 years ago.
Reading the diary, one could imagine being there as he pencilled in day by day the trauma that surrounded him in his pocket diary.
A remarkable young man.
Rest in Peace, Gunner George James.
JE Brooks, Darlington.
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