Trench Diary Assignment Of World War I

Trench Diary Assignment
28th June 1914
Dear Diary,
I will start my journey by telling about myself before World War 1. I was born in 1890, in London. My mother would do the housework as housewife and I would help her in my free time. My father worked in a biology factory. As a student, I loved to study, play, enjoy my life and learn. My ambition was to become engineering mechanic.

I'm now 25 years old, married and have one boy Martin. I work in my father's factory. I have been working there for 2 year and a half. Yesterday, night there was news about World War 1 has been declared that was occurring in Europe and everyone was shock and serious about the news. The news tell us that a Serbian citizen named Gavrilo Princip went into Austria-Hungary and murdered the heir to the Austrian crown Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. After Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, Russia who were allies of Serbia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Three days ago Germany declared war on Russia, due to the fact that Germany are allies of Austria-Hungary. There is great rivalry between Germany and France, the French still want revenge on the Germans after they took parts of their land in a war in 1871. On the next day Germany declared war on France. At that time Britain were still quiet, that was until yesterday. It's reported that Britain had signed a treaty with Belgium, promising to help them if they were attacked. The Germans thought that they could outsmart (defeat or get the better of (someone) by being clever or cunning.) France expected Germany to attack from the border but instead they invaded Belgium so that they could attack France by surprise, an evil scheme. They've called it the Schlieffen plan. Ten of my cousi...

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...d. Every country lost thousands or millions of soldiers, yesterday it was reported that around 1,000,000 British soldiers died, around 1,500,000 French soldiers died and around 1,950,000 German soldiers died. “Was it worth it?” “No way”, some of those people, in fact most of them had done nothing wrong. Through the use of propaganda and immense pressure put on people, millions of lives were taken away. There will be memorials for the people who died, I found out yesterday that only one of my relatives is still alive.

If I ever went back there I would feel that I'm on holy ground. That ground has been trod on by all those lovely lads who never came back.
I think it's marvellous, because that's just how it is. You imagine them as they were then - not as they would be now - young, and in their prime, and never grown old.

This is how my life is end in the World War 1