Some of the editorial moderators have sat down to compile a wishlist of letters we’d love to see. Check it out and get inspired!
We’d love to get letters to/from...
- A telegram boy
- Animals! (Horses, dogs…)
- An unborn baby
- An adopted child
- This member of the Australian Camel Corps
- A weapons manufacture or someone making money off the war
- Amelia Earhart!
- An ancestor of a soldier (i.e. “To My Grandson”)
- Medics, nurses, stretcher carriers
- The enemy
- LGBT soldiers
- Prisoners of War
- A soldier to his commanding officer
- A survivor to his dead comrades
- A propaganda poster
We’d also like to get more…
- Recordings of children reading their letters
- Letters about the role of the railway in WWI
- Letters about the Christmas Truce
- Songs!
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Feeling inspired? Write your own letter to the unknown soldier and join the 17,000+ people who have already contributed including Stephen Fry, Lee Child and Malorie Blackman.
Post your letter on your own Wattpad account with the tag #UnknownSoldier, and then upload it to our online memorial at www.1418NOW.org.uk/letter/new
