Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 60

• February 7, 2018 02:34:30 Thomas A. Lingner

  the Sunday morning it was our turn to go

  over and take a little Wood were a few

  German guns were doing a lot of damage

  so we took the Wood with a very few

  casualty and captured the guns 3 of them

  but another Regt on our Right Claimed

  one of them but most of our casualtys

  here was not with going over the top so 

  much as with the Shells dropping in

  the Trenches as the Germans had the distance

  beautifully it was here were there was a 

  Trench dug through a cemetery and either

  side of the trench was bones and bits of

  coffins all over it it made you feel as if 

  you had been dead a few years and woke

  up to have a look round there were

  hundreds of prisoners captured here and we

  were still advancing bit by bit and

  Holding what had been taken the following

  day we were expecting to go over again

  as there was still more ground to be

  taken to straighten the line out but

  while we were sweating on going over we

  had a surprise as the Brigade of Guards

  Marched through the Trench in single file

  and when they were all in they faced the

  German line and an Officer with them the

  Colonel I should imagine came through

  he had an overcoat and revolver and walking

  stick and yellow gloves he simply jumped up

  on the parapet of the trench and calmly

  looked round with shell shrapnel and

  bullets whizzing all round him he took

  no notice of this only surveying the

  
  

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