Thomas Bromley Shaw, item 79

• October 25, 2018 18:16:06 Sarika Jain

  .first page on left side

  back. A shell dropped on
  

  top of my place but
  

  did not burst. It
  

  sent all the earth down
  

  on top of me. Firing is
  

  going on constantly. It
  

  is simply terrible
  

  it is just five past
  

  ten Sunday morning. I
  

  am absolutely fed up
  

  most miserable day I ever
  

  had. Rain all afternoon
  

  Shells & all sorts.
  

  Mud inches thick of
  

  trousers & puttees & Coat.
  

  this is a reserve

  trench front trench
  

  to night. I think this
  

  is bound to effect my
  

  
  

  .second page on the right

  health. You can't possibly
  

  imagine any thing like
  

  it, a excavating
  

  is a picture to it &
  

  we have to stay in it
  

  get our food??? not
  

  & sleep??? in it. Terrible
  

  I think to day is Thursday
  

  April terrible rough
  

  time we have been having
  

  taken rations up to
  

  Battallion H. 2. and
  

  Wire (Barbeh) & packets to
  

  outposts 25 yards
  

  from Game line. Then
  

  standing to in our
  

  own point line. Going
  

  through wood have
  

  seen awful sights which
  

  
  

• October 25, 2018 18:15:54 Sarika Jain

  .first page on left side

  back. A shell dropped on
  

  top of my place but
  

  did not burst. It
  

  sent all the earth down
  

  on top of me. Firing is
  

  going on constantly. It
  

  is simply terrible
  

  it is just five past
  

  ten Sunday morning. I
  

  am absolutely fed up
  

  most miserable day I ever
  

  had. Rain all afternoon
  

  Shells & all sorts.
  

  Mud inches thick of
  

  trousers & puttees & Coat.
  

  this is a reserve

  trench front trench
  

  to night. I think this
  

  is bound to effect my
  

  
  

  .second page on the right

  health. You can't possibly
  

  imagine any thing like
  

  it, a excavating
  

  is a picture to it &
  

  we have to stay in it
  

  get our food??? not
  

  & sleep??? in it. Terrible
  

  I think to day is Thursday
  

  April terrible rough
  

  time we have been having
  

  taken rations up to
  

  Battallion H. 2. and
  

  Wire (Barbeh) & packets to
  

  outposts 25 yards
  

  from Game line. Then
  

  standing to in our
  

  own point line. Going
  

  through wood have
  

  seen awful sights which
  

  
  

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• October 25, 2018 18:15:01 Sarika Jain

  back. A shell dropped on
  

  top of my place but
  

  did not burst. It
  

  sent all the earth down
  

  on top of me. Firing is
  

  going on constantly. It
  

  is simply terrible
  

  it is just five past
  

  ten Sunday morning. I
  

  am absolutely fed up
  

  most miserable day I ever
  

  had. Rain all afternoon
  

  Shells & all sorts.
  

  Mud inches thick of
  

  trousers & puttees & Coat.
  

  this is a reserve

  trench front trench
  

  to night. I think this
  

  is bound to effect my
  

  
  

  
  

  health. You can't possibly
  

  imagine any thing like
  

  it, a excavating
  

  is a picture to it &
  

  we have to stay in it
  

  get our food??? not
  

  & sleep??? in it. Terrible
  

  I think to day is Thursday
  

  April terrible rough
  

  time we have been having
  

  taken rations up to
  

  Battallion H. 2. and
  

  Wire (Barbeh) & packets to
  

  outposts 25 yards
  

  from Game line. Then
  

  standing to in our
  

  own point line. Going
  

  through wood have
  

  seen awful sights which
  

  
  

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