Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
Letters written to Deborah Florence (Leighton) Glassford of Vancouver by men serving overseas, including some cards, programs and memorabilia. Learn more.
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there are boards or faggots down to walk on by constant bailing the mud is kept down, where there are neither of those the mud in many places come over your knees. The men and officers sleep in little covered in shelters about 2 ft - 3 ft high. You crawl in & out. This bit of the line however is the worst & and hard to improve as we are only 70 yards away from the Germans. Occasionally we hold converse & mutually agree not to fire on our working party at night but the blighters are not to be trusted. You can out move about at night & even then getting in & out of the trenches is very exciting. The Germans are always blazing away & the bullets come pretty close. In the trenches themselves if a man gets hit it's through the head as a rule & that is "FINIS". That is what makes this trench work so trying. We have had a few casualties mostly in our company. There is a lot of humour in it all. We jog along never know when it is going
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1915.