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November 26th Sunday, 1916
I start this new diary, the 3rd since enlistment under conditions perhaps the worst since war was known i.e. The Somme offensive. Such tremendous efforts & concentration of the results of the greatest intellects of the age have never before been availed of for one purpose & now 'tis used for the destruction of humanity. Such a possibility in this enlightened age even, was beyond the wildest of dreams and yet we are now in the 3rd year of this devastating wholesale murder. The enemy still oppose us in great strength altho' slowly but surely our vast efforts are pushing him back. Were it not for the fact that we still push on, it would be deemed impossible for men to withstand such privations & conditions & still live, and yet the men go willingly forward, guided by the unseen directing force which represents the might of England intensified & directed into a channel