The Good Heart of the 1st Bedfords

Saturday 30th January 1915: Private F Wright of the 1st Battalion tells us: “This is what the trenches are like today. It is snowing fast and my two comrades are fast asleep in the land of dreams. One of them knows how to snore, sitting over the empty fire bucket. We have run out of coke(1), so must grin and bear it. This is a small part of how things are out here”.

“We know that it has to be done and therefore it is done with a good heart”.

“I have put a sack over our heads, and the snow has melted and the water is dripping into our fire bucket, trying to put the fire out which is not there. It makes one laugh it sit and watch it although it is not very comfortable”.

Source: Bedfordshire Times 12th February 1915

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(1) Coking coal for the fire.