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