Diary of the damned: Never seen before, a lost diary of the Great War so brutally vivid you'll feel YOU are there in the trenches
Via WiscoDave
Harry Drinkwater joined a 'Pals Battalion' when the war began in 1914
He was sent to the front lines and suffered the grueling realities of war
His
diary entries, never before published, tell of his hellish existence
caked in mud, deprived of sleep and endlessly confronted by the deaths
of his friendsAfter volunteering as an Army private
following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, former grammar-school
boy Harry Drinkwater, 25, joined a ‘Pals battalion’ — so-called because
the men were encouraged to join up with local friends and work
colleagues.
A few months later, his conversion from Stratford-upon-Avon shop assistant to soldier was complete.
In
this extract from his remarkable diary - which it was strictly against
the rules to keep and which has been published for the first time -
Harry writes about his brutal introduction to the trenches at the Somme
in Picardie, Northern France...
Thursday, December 16, 1915
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