Edie’s War.

ABC Radio National, The History Listen, 21st April 2020

When Penny Bristol Jones inherited a battered trunk full of family documents and memorabilia, little did she know the rich wartime history she would uncover.

 In amongst the bounty was a collection of diaries and letters written by Penny’s great grandmother Edie Digby, during the First World War, while her husband and two sons were away at the front.

She worked tirelessly for years, transcribing Edie’s scrawled handwriting and collating her letters into a readable journal format, which charts Edie’s life as a war wife and voluntary worker in Sydney from 1915 through to 1922, while she lived alone for the first time in her life.