We have a trench to take, in fact, the enemy’s second line…. Am afraid it’s going to be a very difficult job. Men all cheery and we all rag each other as to how we will look with wooden legs, or tied up in an oil sheet. All the plans have been explained to-day, Tuesday 15th (Waterloo), to all ranks.

 

All stores have been issued and we are waiting to march off. Hope we win. Unfortunately the Huns must know almost everything, as it has been so widely discussed. I am beginning to suspect it is done with an object. Sacrifice a brigade here and push hard somewhere else. However we are going to justify our existnece as Terriers and men – we middle-class business men!  [SPEC S/D542.Y7.M15]

 

15 June 1915. Diary entry written 15 June 1915 by Bryden McKinnell, Captain 10th (Scottish) Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment, killed in action June 16, 1915.This week’s war: 46.