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Excerpt from The Story of Princess Patricia''s Canadian Light Infantry, 1914-1917
After some experience it becomes hard to imagine a man''s sensations on moving up to his first period in the trenches. The routine, the waiting, the heated discus sions with vague guides, the stepping short in front - there grows such a sense of permanency with repeated visits that it is almost impossible to remember first impressions. It has always been the same, one imagines - always one tramped up to the trenches, more or less burdened with pick and shove], ri?e and pack, extra ammunition, a couple of pieces of corru gated iron, or a duckbo''ard, as an after thought - and the same old fireworks banged and spluttered, ?ared and dwindled, while the soldier sweated along the same old road between the poplars. There appears to have been nothing before one began to do these things.
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After some experience it becomes hard to imagine a man''s sensations on moving up to his first period in the trenches. The routine, the waiting, the heated discus sions with vague guides, the stepping short in front - there grows such a sense of permanency with repeated visits that it is almost impossible to remember first impressions. It has always been the same, one imagines - always one tramped up to the trenches, more or less burdened with pick and shove], ri?e and pack, extra ammunition, a couple of pieces of corru gated iron, or a duckbo''ard, as an after thought - and the same old fireworks banged and spluttered, ?ared and dwindled, while the soldier sweated along the same old road between the poplars. There appears to have been nothing before one began to do these things.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
R. Richards
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780365159759
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 28
Paperback
Contributors
Author
R. Richards
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780282645229
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 30
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