The Trenches (2016)
“We just stayed there, living on what rations came up to us, and waiting for the orders to go forward and run more cables if our next attack succeeded. But it never did. We didn’t move forward. And neither did the Germans. It was stalemate again.
“We’re going to just die here like this in the mud,” said Charlie one day. “All this time and no one’s going anywhere. Not us, nor the Germans. All we do is go backwards and forwards and lose more and more men. I don’t know why they don’t just call it o...ff.”
“Who?” asked Wally.
“The top nobs from both sides,” said Charlie. “They might as well play conkers and see who wins for all the point of this.”
All the time I wondered how Rob was doing. What was it like for him in the fighting at the Front? Was he even still alive? Finally, in the second week of October, our unit were told that we were being sent back down the line to the Reserve Camp at Poperinghe. After almost eight weeks of nothing but mud and death, we were being relieved.MoreLess
“We’re going to just die here like this in the mud,” said Charlie one day. “All this time and no one’s going anywhere. Not us, nor the Germans. All we do is go backwards and forwards and lose more and more men. I don’t know why they don’t just call it o...ff.”
“Who?” asked Wally.
“The top nobs from both sides,” said Charlie. “They might as well play conkers and see who wins for all the point of this.”
All the time I wondered how Rob was doing. What was it like for him in the fighting at the Front? Was he even still alive? Finally, in the second week of October, our unit were told that we were being sent back down the line to the Reserve Camp at Poperinghe. After almost eight weeks of nothing but mud and death, we were being relieved.MoreLess
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