‘We can deal with stray shells - but not heartbreaking monotony’

In November 1915, Captain Wilton John Rix of the 6th Bedfordshire Regiment wrote from France to the East Suffolk Gazette with an understated and moving plea for a relief from the war’s monotony.

He asked foe “old or new, games or other means of recreation, such as dominoes, draughts, packs of…

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