Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 46

• February 5, 2018 18:43:28 Annick Rodriguez

  and right Men with Faces blown away

  and too Terrible to Mention as I walked

  a good way along consoling all the

  Wounded that the Stretcher bearers were

  getting them away as soon as Possible

  which was a Lie as no Bearers could

  get near them as when you looked over

  the top now there were about a Dozen

  of our Men absolutely ablaze with

  all there Amunition going off Pop

  all round them the Germans must have

  been throwing Petrol Bomb at them

  it was a sickening sight but I got

  very callous I did not seem to take

  much notice of it all now it seemed

  to me as all these Fellows who were 

  Dead were very Lucky and when I saw

  a Fellow Die whom I had been watching

  for a time I said Lucky chaos hes out

  of it fully expecting my turn was to come any

  way I tried to get along a bit and I found

  about 4 of my chums in one Part who had

  not got hit and I said Halo aint you

  been knocked out yet Ho you cheeful-

  they  said and they said where you been

  I said I had to come down there out of

  the way of the sight and the Shell

  Fire they said you are smothered with

  Mustard as the Shells were Lyditi which

  when they burnt sent out a Great cloud

  of Yellow smoke so I must have been

               very close to some of them I sat

  here a little while when a Sergeant came

  along with the order to retire as the

• February 5, 2018 18:37:37 Annick Rodriguez

  and right Men with Faces blown away

  and too Terrible to Mention as I walked

  a good way along consoling all the

  Wounded that the Stretcher bearers were

  getting them away as soon as Possible

  which was a Lie as no Bearers could

  get near them as when you looked over

  the top now there were about a Dozen

  of our Men

  
  

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