'German bomb death' Mrs Vickers, 38, of Foundry Street Horncastle received notification that her husband Corporal G. Vickers was killed in action on December 8, 1917. In the letter it said: "No doubt by this time you have heard the sad news of your husband, who was wounded on December 8 and died the same night. I am sorry to say that he was wounded along with several poor fellows, by a bomb dropped from a German machine. Words cannot express how sorry I am."

jane elder