Letter from 19-year-old Konrad Malek to his sister - New Facebook Post

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  https://www.facebook.com/OperationWarDiary/posts/664914200258842:0

  Many thanks to @suelaine for tagging this.

  Posted August 27, 2014 9:08 AM

• by HeatherC moderator

  Great post Rob and how interesting to see it from both sides for a change. Poignant stuff indeed.

  Posted August 27, 2014 10:08 AM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  Thanks, Heather.

  Posted August 27, 2014 7:36 PM

• by lnnseagan

  You should do a piece on the "Chocolate Soldier".

  Posted August 28, 2014 12:52 PM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  Do you have any links? It'd be great to write something about troops from the old colonies - there's been a fascinating series of programmes about them on the BBC recently.

  Posted August 28, 2014 1:24 PM

• by lnnseagan

  Uhh, no, I'm aftraid it's not that sort of a chocolate thing (I hope I'm pc enough 😃)

  Posted August 28, 2014 1:40 PM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  Right! Still,I think I will do something about that at some point, especially as we hope to include Indian Army diaries in the next upload.

  I guess you mean this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25590102

  Posted August 28, 2014 2:17 PM

• by lnnseagan

  Yes, I saw it by accident on the front of https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org. Read the letters, if remember correctly the originals are in the IWM, but a relative seem to have uploaded transcripted copies. It is sort of bittersweet but quite memorable.

  Posted August 28, 2014 2:55 PM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  Absolutely. I'll have a look into it.

  Posted August 28, 2014 3:59 PM

• by lnnseagan

  Sorry, I didn't mean to order, I actually meant "I read" Just being lazy 😃

  Posted August 28, 2014 4:40 PM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  No problem - that's the way I took it 😄

  Posted August 28, 2014 7:24 PM