August 19th 1915 Dear Family, I am currently situated in a trench at Gallipoli, its only 3pm but it feels like I have been awake for months right now, I constantly hear bombs going off machine gun fire, followed by men screaming, it is a dreadful thought I no. I should never have made such a mistake of enlisting into the army, I still remember when I found about this war, my friends came running to …
showed first 75 words of 549 total

showed last 75 words of 549 total
…War is the most horrific thing I have ever seen and or imagined and I hope if I ever think anything so foolish again to be hit by you, when I thought about war I thought you know 1 person might die or whatever but it never stops so I cant wait till I'm home sleeping in a proper bed, eating proper food and laughing about what my pet dog just did. Yours sincerely Charles Hemingway