Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Diary of the Damned - Soldiers of WWI
Harry Drinkwater was in World War I, volunteering to a private army, called Pals battalion. Harry was a young man, 25 historic period old and a causality grammar-school boy. During his time in the trenches, he writes a remarkable diary, round his brutal introduction to the trenches at the Somme in Northern France, even up though it was strictly against the rules to keep.\nThe spends lived in a city called Suzanne, where they had to touch to, which was very hard. They were encamped in tents by 12 people in each, between the enemy and their take guns, and in the night, they can project shells shriek. The conditions in the trenches were horrible, which he as well as writes in his diary: No words can adequately describe the conditions. Its not the Germans were fighting, scarce the weather. The trenches were fill up with muck up and water, so the soldier was standing in cold-blooded difficult water to their knees for hours, and the mud was solely perishting deeper. To run for forward they had to use their elbows for leverage. The excitement lines is described as; suppose a room underneath the ground, whose walls be slimy with moisture. The bedight is a foot or more deep in rancid-smelling mud. Even their intellectual nourishments were cold and became muddy when they ate it, because of their bodies fully cover in mud. The only food they had, was cold bacon, some ice lolly and jam, and many of the rations fails to come because the communicating trenches were water-logged and being continually shelled.\nThey invariably looked at destroyed and demoralize surroundings. Its a engagement field, and you can get the cutaneous senses of how sad the surroundings were, when he writes: Nothing here but trench after trench and, in places, the ground pursy into heaps of dirt. The trees eat been hacked to pieces - only black stumps remain. Nothing grows. let out desolation.\nRest days are few, and when they finally get to have some, they have to march to their billets, where they get a chance to wash...
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