Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 45

• February 5, 2018 18:35:42 Annick Rodriguez

  the Following morning as Daylight came

  we began to see more of the Slaughter

  which was caused when we came over the

  top as I looked accross to our old

  Front Line the Ground was covered

  completely with Dead and Badly Wounded

  and the Dead Lay in the Trench were

  we were so close all the way along

  that there was not Even room to Put your

  Feet as you walked along without Treading

  on a Body and as the sun came out it

  was terribly Hot it was just like some

  Slaughter House as some of the the Dead

  were terribly smashed up as we were

  shelled with a very high Explosion

  and a very strange thing came to my

  mind I had got no water and I had

  not felt Thirsty the whole time I had

  been here and it would have been all

  the same if I had I could not get any

  as I was still busy looking after the

  wounded with water from the Dead Mans

  Water Bottles it struck me at the

  time that the Almighty was Protecting

  me to look after the wounded as I was

  able to do this all the Morning and

  never once did I want a Drink I had

  in my rations Bag a few  Horlicks  Milk

  Tablets and I never had any wish to eat

  those I Eventually gave them away I

  managed to walk along the trench a

  Bit to get out of the ghastly sights

  I was with as I was now the only man

  not Wounded as far as I could see left

• February 5, 2018 18:27:50 Annick Rodriguez

  the Following morning as Daylight came

  we began to see more of the Slaughter

  which was caused when we came over the

  top as I looked accross to our old

  Front Line the Ground was covered

  completely with Dead and Badly Wounded

  and the Dead Lay in the Trench were

  
  

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