There's Life in the Trenches

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Sergent James Milne wrote this letter to his wife moments before he was going over the top. It was to be delivered in the event of his death, but luckily J.M. survived. • «Only God in Heaven knows who will come out of it alive». • «I go to Him with your dear face the last vision on Earth I shall see and your name upon my lips, you the best woman. You will look after my darling son for me and tell how his dad died». • «Goodbye, you best of women you best of wives, my beloved sweetheart. May God in His mercy look over you and bless you all… May He in that same mercy preserve me today».
Many of the combatants of the First World War recorded the daily events of their experiences in the form of a diary. • «I might not have been wounded in body but I was wounded in my mind». • «You couldn’t stop to help anybody, even if he was your brother». • «There are machine guns going and pandemonium all around. How the devil did you get out of that unscathed? […] It’s a miracle, if there’s such a thing as a miracle». Sergent Bill Hay, 9th Battalion. The Royal Scots
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