Source A3 is a photograph of a possibly staged soldier shin deep in a soggy trench, leaning against a wall of half torn sand bags in 1918. Whomever had took this photographic source is unknown. This source is rather useful because I believe the purpose of …show more content…
The severity is presented because his, “fellow tommy” had almost been blown away. Fortunately, this had been intervened as someone had dragged him down in an instant; dodging the lethal bullet. However, it would perhaps be more useful if it had been written earlier as this source was published in 1966 this is an advantage as he may or may not have remembered everything. Furthermore, there is no negatives about his time in the trenches, because from my own knowledge I knew life in the trenches was not glamorous, due to the fact that the trenches were smelly, vermin infested, severely uncomfortable and the long periods of just waiting for orders from their