Hard work clearing trenches. MONK Trench very bad. Germans fired 10 4.2 shells into Monk Trench in morning and Aerial Torpedoes into HELL FIRE CORNER in centre company. Fine day. Our heavies bombarded the REDAN [? ROAD omitted]. during the afternoon.
The diary of Regimental Sergeant Major George Beck
First World War diaries 100 years from when they were written during campaigns on the Western Front
