… the whole land rocks, and up goes a mine in front of our left front [trench]…. The explosion has knocked down a house and thirty yards of trench, burying about thirty-five men. We crawl across and manage during the night to get all out except ten. Some of those we got are dead and wounded, and it was very hard work getting them out…. To-day misty in the morning, and five more buried men were thus saved. [SPEC S/D542.Y7.M15]

14 April 1915. Diary entry written 14 April 1915 by Bryden McKinnell, Captain 10th (Scottish) Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment, killed in action June 16, 1915. This week’s war: 37.