So far so good
Thanks for your contributions so far guys. I'll have to read up on how to create a pdf doc.
Loose. I think the typos come from some limitations in my scanner. The type on the pages isn't always very sharp edged and I think it "misreads" what's on the page. Away from that; the original was handwritten in the 1920s after the still very young man was demobbed in late 1919. His parents were gone and he had a sister who in non-PC terms was called "simple", who needed looking after. He trained as a primary school teacher and it wasn't until he was a bit more settled that he had time to put his thoughts on paper. In the '40s he was a headmaster and had access to a typewriter of the sit-up-and-beg type. He then transferred the originals into typed pages. In the '70s his son had them professionally typed again and printed a limited edition (5) for the family and for the Black Watch museum. It's a rivetting read as you follow this 16 year old from Dundee through the trenches in France, through captivity and the 'flu pandemic of 1918, to just walking away from his prison camp as he saw the war ending, back through the retreating Germans to the safety of his own troops. It's a story that I want to make available to MY family and this seems a good way to do it - if only I can crack it. Thanks again.
The Ancient Mariner