Private W Fuller

We have been through a living hell since I wrote you before, and many of our brave lads we shall never see again. But we went at it man to man, we fought midst shot and shell, and seeing our mates falling fast was serious to witness, they lay up the trenches wounded, groaning with pain. We couldn’t stop to help them. But when we got the Germans out we had a search and found just what most of us needed, chocolates, cakes and other luxuries, but drink we needed most. We held the trench until next morning before we got relieved, then we went back into another trench for a rest. Then again they made counter attacks at them and we went again and they got a reward for that, we gave them counter attacks. Our bombers did excellent work to keep them back, they bombed them with their heads cut and bleeding, but they stuck fast until the last. We have got the pluck, we have got the men, and we hold an excellent reputation which I hope we will try to still uphold. I have never seen such sights before in my life, I hope I never may again, but thank God I am alive still, and I only wish the rest of my mates were the same. I must now close again with kind regards to all.