HAPPY CAMPERS: A postcard sent from Ripon camp on July 24, 1915, by a soldier who signs himself Alf
to Miss Louie Pinner, in Boston. He says he’s working hard and is about to move. The postcard is one of the items that has been donated to the new Wartime Memories Project website
A NEW website which preserves First World War memorabilia and artefacts has just been set up from Stockton with the help of a £33,800 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
It is called the Wartime Memories Project and it is particularly keen to receive digital copies of items that show how the war affected people on the home front.
The website has already had a diary and photographs sent to it, and so it is well worth a look at wartimememoriesproject.com
Ivor Crowther, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund North East, said: “We all know about the major battles that formed such a devastating part of the First World War but often it’s easy to overlook the individual stories of the men and women who sacrificed so much.
“By collecting and digitising people’s personal family artefacts, including amazing pieces such as the soldier’s diary, we are able to get a real insight into what wartime life was like.”
