This is Jocco Podcast number 81 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

November 29th, 1915.

It has teamed.

The trenches are ankle deep, some places calf deep in mud.

And the communications trenches are rushing streams of brown water.

The men are wet through, but stick the job like Britons.

And I hope for their sake that the weather lifts with the morning.

The guns have been strafing today, though up till now we have dodged the show.

It may be ours again tomorrow though.

One never knows.

This is from the diary of Captain Charlie May, the British Army officer, commander of B company.

22nd manchester pals battalion of the manchester regiment who served in World War I.

He was married to Bessie May.

And they had one daughter who was born July 20th, 1914.

So she was a little over a year old when this journal was being written from the trenches.

And it continues December 1st, 1915.

It is exciting work sniping.

In fact, one must curb the tendency, less that should become a fascination.

The second in command of the E lands, the East Lanchester Regiment, and myself,

put in a couple hours this morning and had quite a bit of fun,

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