[Retlaw]

Now midnight of day 3 of the battle of the Somme, a small group of Pals who had gathered in Rolland trench, led by R.S.M. Stanworth, have spent the last 36 hours, assisting the stretcher bearers with the wounded, bringing in their dead for identification & burial, wondering what they would say to the relatives of their dead mates, who not many hours ago, had been the ones they had lived with, through some good & bad times for the past 22 months, all the time with what ever meals, water, and sleep they could get, dodging jerry shells, and snipers, who were still trying to kill them.
Yet the Pals carried on with their grim task, how they managed to contain themselfs, and their sanity in those condition, is beyond belief.
The hardest part was yet to come, having to compose & write letters to their dead comrades family.
Retlaw.