Letter · 26 Aug 1916 · Flanders Fields, Belgium
The red sky
William Alfred Prince. Service number 12/3448 Auckland Infantry . Killed in action Somme 15 September 1916. Had a fiancée.
Extract from this letter
"If the Hun is having a go you don’t stop to watch but get into a dug out quick and lively. The sky is red with the flash from the guns and the shells bursting light up the whole place, it's quite fascinating. It's very nice to see lumps of timber, sheets of iron and heaps of earth flying up into the air."
