History is revealed by crumbling brick courses and corrugated iron poking from willowherb-strewn rubble.

Every thorn is picked out, every drupelet of each blackberry shines. In Scotland the ‘blessed bramble’ had amazing healing properties.

‘This has been an experience, alright.’ How recently-discovered letters to a sister in Edinburgh have breathed new life into a young Scottish casualty of the Korean War, which ended 70 years ago this month.