Weihnachten im Unterstand 1916 (Christmas in the dugout 1916)A well built shelter with stove and chimney, towels drying on a line, a table decorated with greens and three small Christmas trees, two wine bottles.Original Austrian pencil sketch by Karl, 1916. © John M. Shea
Weihnachten im Unterstand 1916 (Christmas in the dugout 1916)
"March 16th [1915].- At lunch, when a shell landed somewhere behind C Company's Mess dug-out, we all stopped feeding, and then went on again. The Quail said, 'How like rabbits we get in these burrows, munching until we hear a noise and then stopping, and then, after a pause, munching again.' The Daily News has a wonderful effort by 'our Military Correspondent' who talks of 'awaiting with great expectation the news of the column which is advancing on Lille from L'Epinette.' L'Epinette was apparently a little private affair of the South Staffords.These trenches were as bad as was expected."
Entry for March 16, 1915 from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Troops rotated in and out of the front-line trenches. Early in the war, expecting to advance and leave their trenches behind, many troops saw little advantage to improving their own trenches which they would soon turn over to others.
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, pp. 124, 125, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994
1915, 1915-03-16, March, rabbit, food, feed, trench, dugout
