scientists have revealed the secret of a mysterious letter from a WWI soldier – UNIAN
Soldier Harold Wong died tragically at the Battle of the Somme, where 28,000 Canadians lost their lives.
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Toronto has solved the long-standing mystery of the flower that a First World War soldier sent home before his death, writes Interesting Engineering.
The group included botanists, librarians, archivists and scientists. They took a letter sent by a soldier, along with a dried flower attached to it, from the University of Toronto archives to examine this “valuable artifact.”
Soldier Harold Wong was a graduate of the University of Toronto. He died tragically in the Battle of the Somme, where 28 thousand Canadians lost their lives. On June 30, 1916, the day before his death, he sent a short letter home with the words “I’m fine” and a small…
