Private G Corbett, C Company 1st Bedfordshire Regiment

Just a line hoping to find you well at home. I was admitted into Hospital on the 6th May. I have got a dose of gas poison, but I am getting over the effects of it now. The Germans shelled our trenches with poisonous gasses. It was awful. We could hardly breathe in it. I don’t know how I got out. I am afraid a lot of our chaps could not escape and a lot of them died when they did get out. It is not fighting now. We expect shot and shell, but no one can stand against that stuff.