Gas!!!

26th October 1916

Had my first gas attack today, when it started I thought the Hun was just shelling again then I stated to notice a yellow haze drifting towards my trench. I had practised putting on my gasmask lots recently for just this occasion my mates had laughed at me for this but five of them paided the price for it, one of them was leofrick, he couldn't put his gas mask on and I had to watch him die. I took hold of him to drag him to a cart to take him to a field hospital and I could see his pleading eyes roll back into his skull and him start to foam at the mouth as he choked up his own blood and lungs, it made me sick to watch.
All my mates I met on the train are dead now its only me left... I feel alone and just want to be back home with my girl and family I miss them so much. I wish this war was over and that we could sort out our differences with other countries and stop this pointless bloodshed and persecution.