A PhD student has traced love letters carved on trees from soldiers to their sweethearts in WW1 and WW2. Chantel Summerfield has traced hundreds of these carvings, some from Tommies in France who wanted to carve a message somewhere just in case they never returned. Summerfield has tried to contact as many people as possible that may be connected to the carvings, using census records to identify the carved names. She says that "some of them will have given their lives with hardly anyone learning anything about them", and wants to record as many as possible.
Sounds kind of quirky but very interesting...
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/146500.html
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