James Anthony"In the shuddering revulsion from death one turns instinctively to love as an act which seems to affirm the completeness of being."
Lieutenant WN Morgan, my great-grandfather, took photos of his fellow WWI soldiers inside a French brothel. These are believed to be the only surviving photos of their kind.
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Inside the brothels that served the Western Front: How one First World War soldier found love in the arms of a French sweetheart | The Independent
Theirs was an impossible relationship – the Welsh officer and his young French sweetheart. Yet when Lieutenant William Morgan's granddaughter discovered a biscuit tin of photographs from the Great War, it wasn’t the shots of their affair that shocked...