News from the Front

Before computers, television or the radio people obtained important information from the national newspapers which were delivered by train from London. The local newspaper was the St Neots Advertiser and as the war progressed the main source of news was from local men themselves. Men wrote home to relatives or were able to come home on leave, and their letters and stories were then passed to the local paper who printed them on a weekly basis. Graphic accounts of the fighting began to appear in the local paper – albeit weeks after the actual events.

Front page of the St Neots Advertiser, February 1915

St Neots Advertiser appeal for letters, 1st January 1915

 

Letter home to St Neots from Tom Eayrs, 1918