Item 01: Charles Monaghan diary, 1916 - Page 226

You are here

Transcription

[Page 226]

1916 August 1
Tuesday

Up in time for breakfast. Get a hair cut & go on route march this afternoon. battle continues on front but not with former intensity.
Dawdle around village in evening. These evenings are beautifully mild & balmy. Summer has been ushered in in earnest. The wheat fields are rapidly ripening the scenes from the hills are both varied & lovely. If only the grim spectre of war did not continually overhang all what a delightful time it would be

This page has its status set to Completed and is no longer transcribable.