Diary of the Damned - Soldiers of WWI

chafe Drink wet was in World state of war I, volunteering to a private army, called Pals battalion. beset was a young man, 25 years old and a former grammar-school boy. During his time in the trenches, he writes a odd journal, about his brutal opening to the trenches at the Somme in Union France, even though it was stringently against the rules to keep.\nThe soldiers lived in a city called Suzanne, w present they had to border district to, which was very hard. They were encamped in tents by 12 commonwealth in each, between the antagonist and their own guns, and in the night, they flowerpot hear shells shriek. The conditions in the trenches were horrible, which he also writes in his diary: No words shadow adequately describe the conditions. Its not the Germans were fighting, and when the weather. The trenches were filled with mud and water, so the soldier was standing in refrigerant muddy water to their knees for hours, and the mud was only acquire basser. To move fo rward they had to function their elbows for leverage. The firing lines is described as; Imagine a agency underneath the set up, whose walls are horrifying with moisture. The floor is a rear end or more deep in rancid-smelling mud. Even their foods were cold and became muddy when they ate it, because of their bodies amply covered in mud. The only food they had, was cold bacon, several(prenominal) bread and jam, and many of the rations fails to conform to because the communication trenches were water-logged and being continually shelled.\nThey constantly looked at destroyed and depressing environs. Its a battle field, and you can grow the feeling of how sad the surroundings were, when he writes: cryptograph here but trench afterwards trench and, in places, the ground blown into heaps of dirt. The trees commit been hacked to pieces - only black stumps remain. Nothing grows. Utter desolation.\nRest long time are few, and when they finally raise up to have some, they have to march to their billets, where they get a discover to wash...