Weapons

To my beloved wife and children,

... this is mostly towards Tommy

Hey Tommy i know you will be the one more interested in reading this letter, because back home you've been always asking me to tell you about the kinds of guns and weapons that i will be using.

The first weapon i was ever given to was the Lewis MK. It's a very light gun, automatic and super easy to use. It's actually a light machine gun. The advantage of this gun is it's portability and super easy to carry around. The disadvantages of having this gun is it's relative weakness of the mechanism, and it as well stops working when it gets the slightest dirt on it, which is practically impossible to not get it dirty considering were in mud the entire time. This is what the gun looks like ...

 

Another machine gun i used was the Vickers 203-inch. This one was just the standard machine gun. It is a very sturdy and trustworthy gun. I had a lot of good luck with this bad boy and is known to "mow down men like wheat." the Vicker always stopped the enemies from going through no man's land. It's super heavy so i usually mounted it on a tripod. Here are some of my men using the Vicker!

A super dangerous weapon used by the enemy was the gas attacks. It's not so much of a weapon but actually more of a death trap. Our code word for it is called "creeping death." The first time it was EVER used was on April 22, 1915. It was a day i could not forget. It was during the Battle of Ypres. Many of my men died and fell to the ground heaving. I laid helpless and buried myself in everything i could find, I could taste the chlorine in my lungs, it felt like i was drowning in the big puffy gas that was surrounding all of us. I was than knocked unconscious. When i woke up, i was in the hospital bed. There were periods of times where i felt nauseous and thought i was going to puke out all my insides. It took me a few days to recover. Some of my men had half of their faces burnt up and a lot were unfortunate and died. I was quite fortunate and was able to live through the poison gas.

This is what creeping death looked like, and here are some men with their gas masks on.