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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