Lesley, welcome to the forum.
You will note that each of the entries for the wounded and killed of WWI has a date. This is the reference to the Alnwick Gazette edition in which the account was published.
A family member must have passed the letter to the Gazette journalist in 1916. Such letters often appeared in local newspapers.
I guess the original must have been lost within the family, if it is not in your possession.
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