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The war-time messages that tell of the loves, laughs and longings of their authors


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. ....

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Dennis Morley, Royal Scots bandsman who survived a Japanese massacre – obituary


Dennis Morley, Royal Scots bandsman who survived a Japanese massacre – obituary
Captured in Hong Kong, he was on the Lisbon Maru when it was torpedoed, leading to the enemy firing on the prisoners, killing 828
Dennis Morley
Dennis Morley, who has died aged 101, served with the Royal Scots (the Royal Regiment) in the defence of Hong Kong, and subsequently survived the sinking of the Japanese freighter, Lisbon Maru, when it was torpedoed by an American submarine; he was believed to have been the last survivor of the sinking.
Japan attacked Hong Kong early on December 8 1941 and the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots, flanked by two Indian battalions, were deployed in a defensive line across the New Territories. Morley, a bandsman in HQ Company, was a stretcher bearer and was in the thick of the fighting. His battalion, however, was greatly outnumbered and took heavy losses. ....

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