Capts IRVINE & WATERS die of wounds. Rotten luck all our Captains gone. Bttn relieved at night by 20th R. Fus. Relief completed 2.0 am. Wet night. Fairly quiet day. Troops all glad to get out.
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
