Trusty and Well Beloved

Trusty and Well Beloved is a collection of wartime letters put together by E. W. Horning. Horning was an English author and poet. Excerpt: «My Dearest Mummy & Daddy,—Well—here we are in the trenches—half-made and generally in a rotten condition. The Regiment that was here before us seems to have done nothing at all, except leave a mess of jam-pots etc. We marched up here last night during a violent thunderstorm—I've never experienced one like it—pouring rain and fork-lightning which lit up the whole front. My word, but I've been 'blooded' alright! There was a lot of confusion in the trenches which resulted in the Germans waking us up a bit.»