Evaluation of the War Front by a War Correspondent

Evaluation of the War Front by a War Correspondent

C.E.W. Bean, a War Correspondent for the Australia Gazette, gives the reader a description of the usual day for a soldier fighting during this campaign.

Dispatch, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 2 December 1915, p3058.

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“You must not imagine that life in one of these year long modern battles consists of continuous bomb fighting, bayoneting and bombarding all the time….the chief occupation is the digging of mile upon mile of endless trench, of sunken road…the carrying of biscuit boxes and building timber for hours daily…the sweeping and disinfecting of trenches in the never ending battle against flies – this is the soldiers life for nine days out of ten in a modern battle.”