Dear Ad, Love Ron: A Personal Story of Love and War Told in the Letters of a Young WW1 Soldier edited by Monica Sinclair

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with protective contact plastic. Scratches to spine and covers. Stamps on inside and foredges. Wear to book corners and edges. Binding is still very good.

The complete collection of the handwritten letters and diary entries of Ronald Augustine Sinclair, Australian Imperial Forces, Fifth Division Artillery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, 114th Howitzer Battery on active service in Egypt, France and Belgium, 1915 to 1919.

Ron Sinclair was twenty-one when, at the end of 1915, he left his family, his sweetheart, and the close-knit community of the Rocks area of Sydney to sail for Egypt. He was 25 when he returned.

From the time he left, he wrote constantly to his 'darling old Ad'. On the ship, in a tent in Egypt, the trenches of France and Belgium, 'in a deserted village in a partly demolished house' on 11 November 1918, he shared with her his experiences and his feelings.

His letters, discovered long after the death of both, are all here, along with diary entries of the last year of the war. Edited by his daughter, Monica, they are offered to any reader wishing to share the courage, loneliness and humour of a young WW1 digger, and the effects of war on his relationship with the girl he left behind.