WORLD WAR ONE NORTHAMPTON INDEPENDENT SOLDIER NEWSPAPER ARTICLES   

     PTE. H. DENTON of the 4th Hussars, May 1915

                                Some of the horrors of war are vividly described by Pte. H. Denton who went to the front in December.

                                “I am lying flat on my stomach while I am writing this, next to a pigsty, the shells are dropping all round,

                            but as long as they don’t hit the barn it is fairly safe.  They are using those big 17 inch guns, and the weight

                            of the shells is about 2,000lbs., and they make a very large burst, throwing bits for hundreds of yards, but

                            worst of all is that contemptible gas that they are using.  It hangs like a cloud over the trenches, and also

                            comes along like a wall of smoke.  Out poor fellows fall like logs under its influence.  They say its just like

                            pins and needles all sticking in their stomachs and lungs, and if anyone gives them a drink of water is almost

                            boils in their mouths.  It is awful.  It turns all the buttons and steel work black and green.”