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http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/image_galleries/cin_harewood_teddy_bear_gallery.shtmlThe Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds has a collection of love letters in their Archive Department sent between a husband and wife during the First World War.

Angela Clare, a researcher at the museum, tells the tale of the letters.

Jack Adam from Doncaster joins the 12th Battalion of the London Regiment in March 1915. Within two or three days he is promoted to corporal owing to his background as a PT teacher. In May 1915 he is made sergeant.

When he first goes away his letters are full of hope and optimism and speak of the good times he is having. They are filled with love for his wife Gert and his three children, Jack, Peg and Madge.

He is retained for the training of drafts in England, promoted to Colour Sergeant Major, and remains in that position up to the time of his proceeding to France in January 1918.

Gert is grateful that she has his letters to help her through those dark days. But Jack's letters become more serious. In one he says "Three, no four, of our boys have gone up. They keep going up one by one. I suppose my turn will come eventually."

Then Gert's letters to Jack start to come back to her unopened and Gert is full of despair over what might have happened to him. She sets out to discover where he is and if he is still alive...