This series of letters are by William Hammond Breare who was the Editor of the Harrogate Herald. Right from the start of the Great War he wrote a weekly letter to the serving soldiers. These contain general chit-chat as to events in Harrogate and information about all the soldiers who paid him a visit in his office above the main offices of the Harrogate Herald in Montpellier Parade.

As a small diversion I include what is in effect a small potted history of the two Harrogate papers - The Harrogate Advertiser and the Harrogate Herald as it shows how the two papers were linked by the Ackrill and Breare families. They were a powerful force in the history of the town.   < Click >