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The members of Parliament went away enormously impressed, but they had not enjoyed themselves nearly as well as the Worcesters, who had fought a sham battle not in the front-line trenches, but in the support trenches two miles back! They laughed for a week afterward. "This war has produced two great dugouts," said Lord Kitchener on a visit to the convent. "Me and Baker-Carr."
There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!" ... General Baker-Carr was a human soul, and kept to his own room that night and let discipline go hang.... When the battles of the Somme began it was those young officers who led their machine-gun sections into the woods of death Belville Wood, Mametz Wood, High Wood, and the others.