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The horror of war in a century-old letter

Elizabeth Fortescue

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You can picture the scene all too easily. A modest home in Yurong Street, near Hyde Park in Sydney. A young woman, Mary Ann Linklater, receives a letter about her brother who is in Europe fighting in the Great War.

The news is delivered flat and unadorned.

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