An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

us. Some old-time Tommies, taking everything for granted, smoked and laughed and told funny stories. Others had the look of dumb animals in pain, going to what th

meet a bloody end before a new moon was over, and wonder how they could do it, why they did it-Patriotism? Yes, and p

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th men who knew they would run a big chance of never seeing England again, and were certainly going to suffer terrible hardships from cold, filth, discomfort and fatigue. There they stood, sat and lay-a mass of humanity which would be shortly bundled off the boat at Boulogne like so many animals, to wait in the rain, perhaps fo

things). It was an excellent lunch, and, as we were not to report at G.H.Q. till the next day, we walked about looki