I discovered Glynne Morris' story through my work as a conservator for Nottingham City Museums for the commemorative exhibition Trent To Trenches. A selection of his letters home, photographs, and letters to his mother from the sister in the hospital where he died are on loan from Nottinghamshire Archives. I found the contrast in the letters so moving. His were thoughts of calm hope that he would be ok in the hush-hush mission assigned him, while the nurse wrote of him being worn out and exhausted prior to death from abdominal wounds. The mention of sister Rickard who cut a lock of his hair to send home to his mother and placed white flowers in his hands in her name I found just unbearably sad. I'd like to take this opportunity, on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, to commemorate Glynne Morris' life and his sacrifice for his country. Such courage. Victoria Hobbs, Nottingham.

Victoria Hobbs