Pesrspective: Love & War ; It Was While Preparing His Parents' Home for Sale That Arthur Stockwin Came Across His Late Mother's 'Treasure Trove' - Letters Telling the Story of a Love Affair Between Two Young People, Cut Short by War.

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When Arthur Stockwin began clearing his parents' house in Sutton Coldfield, his mother, Edith, had been dead for seven years.

She was married to Wilfred Stockwin for almost half a century and had kept secret her doomed love affair with a gallant Army officer who lost his life in the First World War.

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Pesrspective: Love & War ; It Was While Preparing His Parents' Home for Sale That Arthur Stockwin Came Across His Late Mother's 'Treasure Trove' - Letters Telling the Story of a Love Affair Between Two Young People, Cut Short by War.

Aged 17, the young Edith Ainscow had fallen in love with 21-year- old Geoffrey Boothby, a second lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment. Remarkably, they spent barely four days in each other's company before he was sent to the Western Front.

During Geoffrey's training and frontline service in Belgium, the young sweethearts w...

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