Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 37

• February 5, 2018 15:23:33 Annick Rodriguez

  they could as they were shelling the Town

  very heavy now their was a Poor old Lady

  under the Couch in the Room with her

  Rosary saying her Prayers and after  this

  I had to mount Guard over the Dead Body

  for 2 Hours until I was relieved by another

  Fellow and all this time they were still

  Shelling the town anyway I got relieved

  about 7 o clock in the Evening so I went

  and Drowned my sorrows in the nearest

  Estaminet and had some Vin Blonk as

  they had stopped shelling now we did

  not Find out what other Damage the Shells

  done but it must have been tremendous

  one Lady here took a silver Crusifix

  from her Rosary and gave me to wear

  as I was the one saved out of 4 of us

  and she said as Long as I wore it I 

  would not get Hurt and I had that

  crusifix round my Neck on a Peice of

  String untill 1918 and lost it just

  After our great retreat back to Albare

  and soon after I lost it I got a kick

  in the Face with a Mule which sent me

  home Wounded for the First Time To change

  the subject we had a very nice Funeral

  for this Man the Following Morning in

  Burvy Cemetry 4 of us who was Left in

   the Section Carried him to the cemetry

  on a stretcher just the Body wrapped in a 

  Blanket and a Union Jack over the Top

  so he was  the First one I had seen

  Buried in a Proper cemetry but it was

  a very Terrible Time after expecting to

  
  

  
  

• February 5, 2018 15:20:55 Annick Rodriguez

  they could as they were shelling the Town

  very heavy now their was a Poor old Lady

  under the Couch in the Room with her

  Rosary saying her Prayers and after  this

  I had to mount Guard over the Dead Body

  for 2 Hours until I was relieved by another

  Fellow and all this time they were still

  Shelling the town anyway I got relieved

  about 7 o clock in the Evening so I went

  and Drowned my sorrows in the nearest

  Estaminet and had some Vin Blonk as

  they had stopped shelling now we did

  not Find out what other Damage the Shells

  done but it must have been tremendous

  one Lady here took a silver Crusifix

  from her Rosary and gave me to wear

  as I was the one saved out of 4 of us

  and she said as Long as I wore it I 

  would not get Hurt and I had that

  crusifix round my Neck on a Peice of

  String untill 1918 and lost it just

  After our great retreat back to Albare

  and soon after I lost it I got a kick

  in the Face with a Mule which sent me

  home Wounded for the First Time To change

  the subject we had a very nice Funeral

  for this Man the Following Morning in

  
  

  
  

  
  

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