Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 60
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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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Mons, Belgium
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Story location Mons, Belgium
- ID
- 5061 / 63596
- Contributor
- Peter John Kitteringham
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