Before his death in Dunkirk, Harry Cole wrote a letter to his mother • The letter rolled over to a German officer and from there back to Germany • Recently an archive manager managed to find his brother

• Harry Cole

Eighty years after the late Harry Cole, 30, wrote a letter from his battlefield in Dunkirk to his mother Rosa, just days before he fell in the Second World War, the letter finally reached its destination, shutting down a wonderful and exciting circle to its 87-year-old brother.

On May 26, 1940, during the German invasion of France, Harry Cole wrote a letter to his mother. He said that he thought "the Germans will flee back to their country in a few days," adding, "Mama, you have nothing to worry about." Only three days after writing the letter, a German sniper's voice was killed. At the same time, British forces in the area retreated quickly and panicked back toward the coast, becoming one of the most dominant and difficult battles of the war.

The letter was lost during the hasty escape and found by a German officer. After the war, the officer kept the letter in the attic of his home, along with other documents, and in 1968 he decided to send it to the city of Shaqun in the United Kingdom. But even then the letter got stuck on the way. City francs did not know what to do and who to pass it on, and so the letter remained in the municipal archives office.

The years have passed, and most recently, 80 years after the legendary battle and the tragic death of Cole, archive manager Heidi Hughes has seen the letter and the house number to which it is intended. Recalling that she knew an older man by the name of Calmie Cole, she turned to him. It turned out to be none other than Harry's younger brother.

"I'm in shock. I didn't know my soul, I was excited to receive Harry's letter after so many years," said the brother, who was in the market from the Late Circuit closing. He noted that his mother had a feeling he was killed in those days. "She saw his face in her bathroom window and felt his spirit come to say goodbye to him because he had fallen in battle. Thus, 80 years later, young Harry's letter finally reached his family, forming a final, particularly exciting circle.