Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 58

• February 7, 2018 02:22:33 Thomas A. Lingner

  each as we were getting near the Front Line

  now after doing about 1 1/2 miles we were getting

  a Bit dry and knocked out so we had a

  drop of tea and what a slouch the cook

  had put salt in it instead of sugar

  that properly done it we could not take it back

  to the village as the cook would rumble we

  had been sneaking a drop and we new  knew  if we

  took it up the line another 1/2 mile or so we

  would have for certain to bring it back again

  so what was we to do anyway we decided to

  go back to the village after throwing it 

  away as we were not giving it another joy

  ride knowing it would be thrown away

  so they made more tea in the meantime

  they were getting a bit windy our company 

  were what had happened to there tea so

  they phoned to the village to see whether

  we were alive and we eventually arrived

  back to the line about 9.pm with our tea

  in time for supper. I managed to get another

  tiresome job on this night it happened that

  the Germans had been shelling the line

  pretty heavy all day and consequently they

  broke a lot of the barbed wire entanglements

  in front of our line and the engineers had

  come up to put more up and they wanted

  about a dozen men as covering party for

  them while they repaired it so I was one

  of the dozen as usual I was generally

  made favorite when a job like this wanted

  doing so we all had to go out to no mans

  land with a Sergeant in charge and lay

  there with our rifles ready in case the

  
  

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