Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 42

• February 5, 2018 16:02:33 Annick Rodriguez

  in the ditch so the captain said go on

  Boys over I scaled the Ladder and

  Shouted come on Boys over and I 

  jumped over it was about a 6 Foot

  Drop over the other side we were now

  in no mans Land I scrambled through

  the Barbed wire and started to

  run toward the German Line and

  it was Hell Let Loose the Shell

  and Machine Gun fire was terrific

  and Dozens of Men falling down

  Shot all round you the bullets

  seemed to whizz by your Ears I stopped

  half way as I thought a bullet had

  exploded in my jaw I felt my face

  and found it still there and run on

  stumbling and falling over man who

  had been shot dead or wounded

  I was dazed and sweatting terribly

  and when I got to the German Line

  I saw a German waiting for me in the

  Trench with his Bayonet waiting for

  me and I must have Lost my

  senses as I through my Rifle and

  Bayonet at him as I would a Dart

  not thinking in the Excitment and

  as Luck would have it  he turned

  round to run and it caught him

  in the Back he dropped Dead if

  I had missed it would have been me

  Instead anyway I relieved him of

  his belt and Bayonet and bought

  them home for a souvenir I have the

  Bayonet at the Present time he was a

• February 5, 2018 15:59:11 Annick Rodriguez

  in the ditch so the captain said go on

  Boys over I scaled the Ladder and

  Shouted come on Boys over and I 

  jumped over it was about a 6 Foot

  Drop over the other side we were now

  in no mans Land I scrambled through

  the Barbed wire and started to

  run toward the German Line and

  it was Hell Let Loose the Shell

  and Machine Gun fire was terrific

  and Dozens of Men falling down

  Shot all round you the bullets

  seemed to whizz by your Ears I stopped

  half way as I thought a bullet had

  exploded in my jaw I fell my face

  
  

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