Diary Accounts on Trench Conditions in World War One

I think I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself, I was born in 1889, in London. I was brought up in a middle class family. My mother would do the housework and I would help her in my free time. My father worked in a factory. As a teenager I loved to study and learn; my ambition was to become a teacher or a doctor.
I'm now 25 years old, married and have two boys, Ryan and George. I work in my father's factory; I have been working there for a year and a half. My mates and I are quite serious about the news and the world around us, so it would be no great surprise that we know about the war that is occurring in Europe. They tell us that a Serbian student named Gavrilo Princip went into Austria-Hungary and murdered the heir to the Austrian crown; Archduke Franz Ferdinand. …