BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)<br /> Pic: PhilYeomans/BNPS<br /> <br /> The suitcase even contained his bag of personnel effect's send back from the front in 1916.<br /> <br /> Discovered in a loft - Poingnant reminder of families tragic loss during the Great War.<br /> <br /> A moving time capsule containing the last belongings of a dead soldier his family couldn't bring themselves to look at has been found in an attic after 98 years.<br /> <br /> The possessions of Private Edward Ambrose were sent home from the Western Front to his devastated parents after he was killed at the Somme.<br /> <br /> Too painful to look at, the poignant items were shut into a leather case and put into storage where they remained for almost a century.<br /> <br /> The case has now been opened by Pvt Ambrose's 82-year-old nephew who recovered it after reading about an appeal for untold stories for a local First World War exhibition.<br /> <br /> The effects include black and white photos of his loved ones, letters from his parents, his half-smoked pipe and a cigarette case with 10 roll-ups.
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