World War I have fetched £2800 at auction – nearly five times the £600 estimate. The letters were written by brothers Eric and Ronald Travis Townsend, from Troon in Ayrshire, to their mother Lucy, who preserved their words lovingly along with photographs of her sons in leather-bound albums so they would not be forgotten.
In one letter, Eric jokingly asked his mother “Is haggis postable?” to Palestine, where he was stationed in the run-up to Christmas.
Meanwhile, Ronald, who had emigrated to Canada in 1913, wrote expressing his desire to return and fight for his country to make his children proud.Eric, a captain in the 5th Highland Light Infantry, was only 22 when he was killed in action on November 8, 1917.Ronald, of the Royal Flying.
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