Entrenched German soldiers preparing their rifles for duty, November 15, 1916 in Lajoryery(?). The message on the reverse is in Hungarian. 'Nov 15 1916 — Lajoryery(?) — 377 . . . preparing rifle for sentry in the trenches' — translation courtesy of Thomas Faust, eBay's Urfaust.
Nov 15 1916 — Lajoryery(?) — 377 ...._ preparing rifle for sentry in the trenches — translation courtesy of Thomas Faust, eBay's Urfaust.
"The reality was not described in the newspapers, and usually only glimpsed in letters home. One diarist, Lieutenant Guy Chapman, caught that reality in his curt entry on the night of November 16: 'No. I Coy is badly knocked out. Lauder and Young both badly wounded, Sergeant-Major Dell wounded. Farrington killed. Sgt Brown not expected to live. Sgt Baker wounded. Westle, poor fellow, killed. Foley — the last of his family — killed, a lot of other good men, too many to speak of.'"
From Martin Gilbert's account of the last days of the Battle of the Somme in his The First World War, a Complete History. 'No. I Coy' is a the 1st Company.
The First World War, a Complete History by Martin Gilbert, page 298, copyright © 1994 by Martin Gilbert, publisher: Henry Holt and Company, publication date: 1994
1916-11-16, 1916, November, Battle of the Somme, Somme
