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A Yankee in the Trenches by R. Derby Holmes
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Corporal Holmes with Staff Nurse and Another Patient, at
Fulham Military Hospital, London, S.W.

Corporal Holmes with Company Office Force, at Winchester,
England, a Week Prior to Discharge





A YANKEE IN THE TRENCHES




CHAPTER I

JOINING THE BRITISH ARMY


Once, on the Somme in the fall of 1916, when I had been over the
top and was being carried back somewhat disfigured but still in the
ring, a cockney stretcher bearer shot this question at me:

"Hi sye, Yank. Wot th' bloody 'ell are you in this bloomin' row
for? Ayen't there no trouble t' 'ome?"

And for the life of me I couldn't answer. After more than a year in
the British service I could not, on the spur of the moment, say
exactly why I was there.
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