54707: John B Nicholson's Letter Home

Support Trenches,
FLANDERS,
July 9th 1915.

My Dear Pater,
Last night we moved up here from the reserve trenches in which we'd been for five days. We're in support t

Letter describes daily life in the trenches. Starts with the realities of modern warfare and how the differ from the romantic vision, soldier's kit, entering trenches, relieving a trench, sentry duty, stand-to, repairing trenches, censored material, no-man's land, an amusing story of a Highlander out on patrol. Final note: "A few days later, in the earliest hours of July 13th, as he was reinforcing the parapet of a trench, John was shot through the heart by a German sniper. He died immediately and his body joined the grim parade in the military cemetery of Richebourg St.Vaast."