"The opinion out here is the Boche offensive will not come off or at any rate not on the Western Front, but I think it will and he will try 5 or 6 small attacks …….
Feb 17th, 1918 (nr Neuve Chapelle)
The Letters
The letters of J N Wreford Brown or Rowley as he was known to the family, have just this year come to light and been loaned to the History Department at Tideway School
Like those of his two brothers, they had been copied into a notebook by his sister. Unlike the previous collections, the letters of Rowley are incomplete and only cover his war service from 1917 onwards
They offer a fascinating description of the later stages of the war
Rowley was injured and sent back to England for treatment in 1918
In the letters he describes his treatment in England and his work in the army dealing with demobilisation after the war
NOTE : for pupils or students studying the Weimar Republic there is a very useful first hand description of conditions in Hamburg in 1919