"The trench was full of corpses and all sorts of equipment. We stood and sat on bodies as if they were stones or logs of wood. Nobody worried if one had its head stuck through or torn off, or a third had gory bones sticking out through its torn coat.
And outside the trench one could see them lying in every kind of position. There was one quite young little chap sitting in a shell-hole, with his rifle on his arm and his head bent forward, but he was holding his hands as if to protect himself, in front of his chest in which there was a deep bayonet wound. And so they lay, in all their different positions, mostly with their heads battered in by blows from mallets and bayonets. Our feelings gradually became quite blunted.” Private August Hope, 154th Inf. Reg., 39th Inf. Div. AEF, St. Aignan, France Nov. 1918 #reality #ww1 #stayzero #zerofoxtrot