Thursday, 8 March 2007

The Day I Died

November 22nd 1915

Hello, my name is Seargeant Patrick Grady of the PALS battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment. Having been stationed on the Western Front here in France for nearly 3 months, I am sorry to announce that Lieutenant Hugh Jenkinson, one of the bravest leaders this battalion has ever had, was killed to in action, fighting for King and Country. He died when he was hit by a German artillery shell, fired in an attempt to stop the advancing British troops. He was one of 6 brave soldiers from PALS battalion who died in that attack on the German front line. I am sorry to say that there will be no more entries in this diary. I hope that his memory will live on in the history of this Great War and this country's plight for freedom from persecution and tyrany.