On 10 October 1918, the RMS Leinster departed from Dún Laoghaire en route to Holyhead just before 9am.

With an estimated 771 passengers and crew on board, the ship was hit by three German torpedoes and sunk just before 10am with the loss of over 580 lives. pic.twitter.com/TguzDbmsgy

— Siobhán Doyle (@thekickart) 10 October 2018

Short piece here about him: https://t.co/CzVWhwjXg3 His book Recollections of a prisoner of war sounds worth a read. Hopefully @LadyMonkswell will say more in her diary about him! @HLFSouthWest @shascreenplay @alastair https://t.co/eCURYfhdHB

— Voices from 1918 (@VoicesFrom1918) 13 October 2018

The battlefields filmed in colour in the 1930's by Anne Louise Avery's grandfather. “I cry every time I watch it. He only spoke of sharp fragments of his experiences - the time his pal, a regiment cook, accidentally cut off a couple of fingers in the horrendous cold, using pee to try to protect himself from mustard gas, friend after friend dying in front of him.”

Once more, as we approach Armistice Centenary, my grandfather's 1920s colour film of his pilgrimage to visit the trenches - the corn fields still strewn with rusting tanks, the war memorials freshly carved, the crosses of young lads still in greening oak. https://t.co/5nLx77clTn

— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) 14 October 2018

British sailors at a naval convalescent hospital playing a game of football, 1916. @FootballArchive @MemorabiliaMal pic.twitter.com/r7F2oYAeLK

— Jeff Nichols (@backwards_river) 17 October 2018

#WW1 Cheadle Hume Hospital. https://t.co/dgo3HetuGn pic.twitter.com/tZLbqKaMHS

— ww1photos .org (@WW1photos_org) 17 October 2018

#WW1 Soldier poses with two young french girls - https://t.co/Xy2fTYQ5g4 pic.twitter.com/drL1fmfWD1

— David Doughty (@DavidWDoughty) 21 October 2018

#WW1 #Wakefield nurse Nellie Spindler was working in 44 Casualty Clearing Station, Brandhoek. On 21st August 1917, the hospital was shelled all day. She was struck at 11am, became unconscious immediately, and died 20 minutes later in the arms of Nurse Wood, also from Wakefield. https://t.co/8OPUaTHPvn

— WW1 Lives (@ww1lives) 22 October 2018

Working on postcards for @HLFSouthWest project @VoicesFrom1918 @OliveHarcourt @mariestopes1918 @LadyMonkswell #RedCross hospital in #Wimborne pic.twitter.com/22a6pvat0O

— Sharon Hayden (@shascreenplay) November 1, 2018

Excited to be supporting this performance @BridportArts on Thursday 11.30am with our research from @VoicesFrom1918 book tickets here: https://t.co/EiXJdF6bJd @NerysW @HLFSouthWest https://t.co/iZUew8IQ5i

— Alastair Nisbet (@alastair) 6 November 2018

Just seen When Tommy Came Marching Home - wonderful WW1 show @BridportArts with @margiebarbour using our research to play @LadyMonkswell - music, drama, song, dance and a hilarious cookery demonstration - great fun @HLFSouthWest @DorsetArchives pic.twitter.com/2R5UJ9f5PD

— Voices from 1918 (@VoicesFrom1918) 9 November 2018

As it’s Remembrance day, I thought I’d share a few pictures from a diary I have from the WW1. My Great Grandma was a nurse in Southport and she asked the injured soldiers she tended to, to fill the diary. Lest we forget. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/PcNvnCDJnt

— Alice Schofield (@aliceschofield_) 11 November 2018

Congratulations! Glory! Hallelujah! Viva! Hurrah! The War – THE WAR IS OVER!! Hurrah! Hip, hip, hurray! We have just had the official information from the CO on parade. I can’t help writing off at once, though I really ought to wait until I am in a calmer state. pic.twitter.com/BDxie5ipe9

— Fred Noakes (@fredtwells) 11 November 2018

Can anybody help us explain this Christmas card sent home by an officer in Belgium in November 1918? Saint George and the Dragon, fight between good and evil could refer to Belgian festivals at Tournai or Mons and the Fleur de Lis could be Lille but whose is the flag ?@LivesOfWW1 pic.twitter.com/TwLtmOCwNI

— Voices from 1918 (@VoicesFrom1918) 17 October 2018

Did we say? We've made some postcards. Four about our 1918 diarists and three prints of embroidered WW1 Christmas cards with envelopes. Send us an sae and we'll post you a set of each. Voices from 1918, 29 Mellstock Ave, Dorchester DT12BG @IWM_Centenary @DorsetArchives https://t.co/48hbAmRV1y

— Voices from 1918 (@VoicesFrom1918) November 21, 2018

Letter to Essie 23.12.1918

The pig has been killed. At one time it was feared he would die a natural death from too much lorry travelling but has survived all the moving and met his end yesterday morning. Reading: 'Beyond', John Galsworthy, (1917)

03.01.1919 Alfred Johnson, letter to Essie I have been playing football to-day the first time I have played in a match since the Artist days. I think all men with jobs with be demobilised fairly soon. They are demobilising 5000 a day now and that is soon to be nearly doubled.

[Johnson played football for the University of Manchester team where he studied classics in the early 1900s]

04.01.1919 Letter to from Artillery Lieutenant Alfred Johnson in Belgium to his wife Essie: It appears we are not off to Germany at least not for the present, which is rather disappointing

The Morning Post: Military Awards For services in France and Flanders A.F. Johnson, Military Cross

Letter from Alfred Johnson to Essie, 8.01.1919 on Bruxelles Palace Hotel headed paper. Brussels is certainly a very fine town. We have been to the galleries, with sculptures by Rodin...

Various fair ladies tried to lead us astray and Lee was quite alarmed but I rather enjoyed it.

Letter from Alfred Forbes Johnson to his wife Essie 15 January 1919

I have had quite a busy day to-day, a football match and coaching two fellows in German. March is educational officer and has all sorts of schemes on. He has started a course of lectures once a week to the men and I have let myself in for one on the stars.

25.01.1919 Letter to from Artillery Lieutenant Alfred Johnson to his wife Essie:

I don't know what I got the MC for. The Major put my name in last September for things in general I think. That is all I know. We went to Dinant yesterday.

We have demobilised a good many men, sent about 40 away to heavy batteries to help with the horses.

The weeks drag on as Lieutenant Alfred Forbes Johnson waits to be demobbed - and he worries about his family and going back to his job at the British Museum.

He writes: “I found I could not sleep and began to think of nasty things in the war, so to stop that I tried to recollect early events with you.”

Then in March 1919 “There has been some good news since I wrote last. Officers who were in the Army in 1914 and who do not wish to stay on, are now to be released. I am under that, so it is only a matter of waiting for our allotment.”

The rest of his battery move on to Cologne and Bonn and have a good time going to concerts

Finally... a telegram from to his wife Essie on 17 April 1919 Arriving Dover today - home tonight