MAIA HART/STUFF
Yours forever: William Trickey Woods was blinded in Gallipoli during World War I. That didn t stop him from writing letters on a typewriter and signing them by hand.
Hundreds of letters and pocket diaries – some perfectly intact, some falling apart – are stored away in shoe-boxes and folders across Marlborough.
Maia Hart speaks to their safe-keepers to commemorate this year’s Anzac Day.
William Trickey Woods, World War I
MAIA HART/STUFF
William Trickey Woods and Leila Ethel May Woods (nee Mills) pictured on their wedding day. When William Woods was blinded at Gallipoli during World War I, he was pulled from the front line and sent home to New Zealand.