A French couple who uncovered letters sent to an English WW1 soldier have made contact with his great-great-nephew after a social media appeal.
The letters to lance corporal William Swift, who signed up underage at 16 in 1914, had been hidden for more than 100 years, when workers renovating the couple’s home found them under the floorboards.
The heartfelt messages from the parents of Liverpool-born Swift enquired how their son was doing and whether he had received their last parcel.
And after making the discovery, Mathilde Bernardet, the…
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