3. 1915: A French soldier slumps down dead with food in his hands after being shot ...

1915: A French soldier slumps down dead with food in his hands after being shot while he ate. [800×516]

Wow, that quite a poem!

This reminds me of a diary entry Dan Carlin quotes in Bluprint for Armageddon. That English Captain Charlie May wrote on June 17, 1916. 13 days before the battle of the Somme. Addressed to his wife.

And I quote: I must not allow myself to dwell on the personal - there is no room for it here. Also it is demoralising. But I do not want to die. Not that I mind it for myself. If it be that I am to go, I am ready. But the thought that I may never se you or our darling baby again turns my bowels to water. I cannot think of it with even the semblance of equanimity.

My one consolation is the happiness that has been ours. Also my conscience is clear that I have always tried to make life a joy for you. I know at least that if I go you will not want. That is something. But it is the thought that we may be cut off from each other which is so terrible and that our Babe may grow up without my knowing her and without her knowing me. It is difficult to face. And I know your life without me would be a dull blank. Yet you must never let it become wholly so. For to you will be left the greatest charge in all the world, the upbringing of our baby. God bless that child, she is the hope of life to me. My darling, au revoir. It may well be that you will only have to read these lines as ones of passing interest. On the other hand, they may well be my last message to you. If they are, know through all your life that I loved you and our baby with all my heart and soul, that you two sweet things were just all the world to me.

I pray to God I may do my duty, for I know, whatever that may entail, you would not have it otherwise.

Capt. Charlie May died on July 1 , 1916, in the first attack at the battle of the Somme.

Just think about having to write something like this home to your wife, it really is mind boggling what these men went throught. I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like.

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