Shell WW1 History Source Pack
| In a letter to his parents, Private Pressey of the Royal Artillery described the quality of the food men were receiving on the Western Front. | 12 |
| Richard Beasley was interviewed in 1993 about his experiences during the First World War. | 13 |
| Major Graham wrote a letter to his family about the food supplied to soldiers on the Western Front. | 13 |
| Robert Graves wrote about his experiences of the First World War in his autobiography, Goodbye to all That. This passage refers to an attack where the battalion suffered very heavy casualties. Only three junior officers, Choate, Henry and Hill survived. | 13 |
| Private Harold Horne, Northumberland Fusiliers, interviewed 1978. | 13 |
| General John Monash, letter (11th January 1917) | 14 |
| Sergeant A. Vine, diary entry (8th August, 1915) | 14 |
| Richard Beasley, interviewed in 1993. | 14 |
| James Lovegrave, interviewed in 1993. | 14 |
| Frank Laird writing after the war. | 14 |
| Captain Lionel Crouch wrote to his wife about life in the trenches in 1917. | 14 |
| Captain Impey of the Royal Sussex Regiment wrote this account in 1915. | 14 |
| Private Livesay, letter to parents living in East Grinstead (6th March, 1915) | 15 |
| Private Pollard wrote about trench life in his memoirs published in 1932. | 15 |
| J. B. Priestley, letter to his father, Jonathan Priestley (December, 1915) | 15 |
| Captain Lionel Crouch wrote to his wife about life in the trenches in 1917. | 15 |
| Guy Chapman, a junior officer in the Royal Fusiliers, recorded how he discovered one of his men had been arrested for a self-inflicted wound. | 15 |
| Charles Young was interviewed about his war experiences in 1984. | 16 |
| Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929) | 16 |
| John Reith, Wearing Spurs (1966) | 16 |
| Robert Sherriff , No Leading Lady (1968) | 16 |
| Harry Patch, Last Post (2005) | 16 |
| I was suddenly filled with a surge of happiness. It was a physical feeling almost, consciousness of a reprieve from the shadow of death, no less. That I had just taken part in a failure, that I had really done nothing to help win the war, these things... | 17 |
| Harold Mellersh, a young platoon commander who took part in the Somme offensive. | 17 |
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