First world war burials: officers get screwed, men just get hammered | Letters

Dick Robinson responds to Giles Fraser on wartime democracy in deathGiles Fraser (It took the horrors of the trenches to bring democracy to death, 25 August) is right to praise the success of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in ensuring that, in death, other ranks were given the same honours as officers. But during the first world war itself it was rather different. My great aunt, Sister Edith Appleton, served in France and Flanders from October 1914 until Christmas 1919 and in her diary (