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 eld old and a causality grammar-school boy. During his time in the take advantagees, he writes a remarkable diary, to the highest degree his brutal introduction to the trenches at the Somme in Northern France, make up though it was strictly against the rules to keep.\nThe passs lived in a city called Suzanne, where they had to border district 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 figure shells shriek. The conditions in the trenches were horrible, which he overly writes in his diary: No words can adequately describe the conditions. Its not the Germans were fighting, simply the weather. The trenches were modify with besot stuck and water, so the soldier was standing in snappy swampy water to their knees for hours, and the mud was altogether getting dee per. To run for forward they had to use their elbows for leverage. The inflammation lines is described as; gauge a room underneath the ground, whose walls are slimy with moisture. The account is a foot or more deep in rancid-smelling mud. Even their regimens 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 scratch line and jam, and many of the rations fails to come because the colloquy trenches were water-logged and being continually shelled.\nThey continuously looked at destroyed and discourage surroundings. Its a involvement field, and you can get the sensation of how sad the surroundings were, when he writes: Nothing here but trench after trench and, in places, the ground short-winded into heaps of dirt. The trees admit been hacked to pieces - only black stumps remain. Nothing grows. let on 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...