John B Nicholson's Letter Home

Letter describes daily life in the trenches. Starts with the realities of modern warfare and how the differ from the romantic vision, soldier's kit, entering trenches, relieving a trench, sentry duty, stand-to, repairing trenches, censored material, no-man's land, an amusing story of a Highlander out on patrol. Final note: "A few days later, in the earliest hours of July 13th, as he was reinforcing the parapet of a trench, John was shot through the heart by a German sniper. He died immediately and his body joined the grim parade in the military cemetery of Richebourg St.Vaast."