Letter from the trenches
Cyril Lomax served as chaplain to the 8th Durham Light Infantry, 151st Infantry Brigade on the Western Front between July 1916 and April 1917. This letter home was written while his unit was in action during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme. It gives a vivid impression of the boredom, discomfort and loneliness that characterised the 'most primitive life' of soldiers on the Western Front. Lomax's narrative is embellished by two sketches, the second of which shows men clambering out of mud-drenched trenches to go 'over the top'.
IWM 87/13/1 (7 Sep 1916)
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