First World War Diary of Rifleman Frederick Joseph Stanbridge

Somewhere in Palestine March 10th, 1918My Very Dear Brother Ern,….since receiving your last letter, I have been “over the top”. I was expecting to have to go, but I assure you Ern, I never dreamed it would be so terrible!… I want to try to forget those certain 16 hours, but I cannot, and I am afraid I never shall. I really think the night of February 19-20th was (for me anyhow) a night in hell. We had to attack Johnny with the bayonet in the dark about 1:30 (and it was dark too). He was stronger than expected. If our machine guns had not come up just in time, I think we would all have been wiped out.

Wendy Frances Marston is the granddaughter of Battersea Rifleman Frederick Joseph Stanbridge. She worked as a legal secretary before becoming a carer for her son, and then her father, Rifleman Frederick Stanbridge’s son. She worked for many years as a trained volunteer in bereavement care. Wendy lives in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, which is close to the village of Dagnall.

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Brian Sadler

This book chronicles an incredible first-hand record from the diary of a young British soldier who experienced the horror and carnage of the First World War. An amazing read of the tremendous fortitude against incredible odds when under daily enemy fire in the atrocious conditions of trench warfare.

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