Entry 4 - Gas Attack

Today was just another day after the Battle of The Somme, we had a gas attack from the Germans, it started off as a greenish, yellowish cloud coming towards us, blown by the wind. One of the members of the machine gun crew saw it, and started banging an empty shell case with his bayonet, everybody heard it and everybody got into a mad scramble for the gas masks. I luckily got on to one of then as I was near the Tommies, soldiers who always had a bag of gas masks on him, even when he was sleeping. For some of the others, it was too late, I saw one of the men near me, he clutched his throat, fell down to the ground and twisted around, then he died. We all waited for the gas to disperse for a few hours then we took our masks off, it felt so good to have cold air in your lungs.