Joshua Levine

At night, it was more frightening because you couldn't see it.

And so this was one of the things about being, you know, becoming experienced.

You knew when to keep your head down.

You knew basically how to be safe.

And you also knew sort of almost instinctively how to stay safe from, for example, a mortar that was coming over.

So there were different, you know, you had to kind of learn this new existence of, you

of how to stay safe so both safe in terms you know from from the weapons that were going to hit you fire at you but also from you know how to stay healthy you know in the trench as well and how to get enough sleep um and how to you know how to eat properly and how to and also bear in mind that the trenches you know we we have again possibly an idea that no man's land was this sort of

consistent belt, because it wasn't.

You know, some trenches could be a thousand yards, you know, miles, well, miles, but, you know, a long, long way away.

In which case, you know, your interaction with it would be, or day-to-day interaction with it would be less.

And then perhaps the average would be two, three hundred yards.

But then you had places where it was literally 15 yards away.

And the enemy trench.

And, you know, somebody said, you know, I'd get up in the morning and I'll get up in the morning.

I'd be there in the morning.

They didn't sleep eight hours overnight.

But and a voice would come over.

Morning, Tommy.

And I'd shout back, morning, Fritz.

That's what it was.