http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/from-priscilla-to-madaline-11181918/ Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/from-priscilla-to-madaline-11181918/#comment-8733 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:37:25 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=8594#comment-8733 Correct. It is hard to say how quickly such news actually did get back to families at home, but letters and other correspondence usually took a month to travel from overseas. I’m not sure if families were telegrammed the news or not during the Great War, but the fact that Joe’s girlfriend was not aware of it while she was so close to the family indicates that no one else knew, either.

]]> http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/from-priscilla-to-madaline-11181918/#comment-8731 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:13:53 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=8594#comment-8731 Reblogged this on ww1ha and commented:
By the time friends and family got the news, he’d been dead for more than a month, right?

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