Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 10]
were just a number of rough shelters dug into the side of some trench, or along the sheltering banks of a road cutting, & anything more dismal & cheerless it would be hard to imagin.
I will ever remember my first night in one of these dug-outs. But one could hardly call them such, for they were no more than mere "funk holes". On this first occasion (but never afterwards) I was unfortunate in arriving a little late, & was unable to find a hole large enough to share with a mate, so I crawled into a little hole alongside of a river-like road. It was just sufficiently large to take my
[Note: 'Funk holes' were dug-outs built into the sides of trenches. They provided shelter for 1 or 2 men. The men would rest and eat their meals there.]