Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to say you are wrong Marc, but we still have my Grandfather's WWI diary. It is very terse. About as exciting as it gets is "went over the top and attained our objective". So maybe they were encouraging them not to write specifics. Mike D Marc James Small wrote: ... > > The restriction on diaries and photographs by soldiers goes back to World > War I and was introduced and maintained for security reasons. That is, if > a diary were to be captured by the Other Side, important information might > be gleaned about rear area operations and the like. > ...