1916 World War 1 Trench Diary Sapper Reginald Dickon Hall Royal Engineers 4th East Yorkshire Regiment (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Day by day account of what life really was like from my husband's Great Uncle's private war diaries. Tiny indecipherable writing often written in pencil, Reginald's thoughts go from inspirational to despair as the war progresses. This is the first of three war diaries covering the years 1916 to 1918. In this diary he travels around the Western Front visiting Estaires, Hazebroucke, Cassel, Sainte-Marie-Cappel, Herzele, Wormhoudt (where he meets Sir Douglas Haig), Bambeque, Flamertinge, Ypres, Poperinghe, Esquelbecq, Boulogne, Elverdinghe, Courcelles, Couin, Beauval, Mametz Wood, Bernafay Wood, Carnoy, Corbie, Meaulte, Trones Wood, Ville sur Corbie, Treaux, Vignacourt, Belloy sur Somme, Amrens, Belloy, Picquigne, Cavillon, Meaulte. He was a private in the Royal Engineers Signaller 4th East Yorks Regt. who enlisted 14th October 1914.