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Updated: May 29, 2025
'This is the place for "Blighties"! Lance-Corporal Livesey encouragingly observed to me while they were whistling round us. We stayed at the job quite a long time. I was beginning to wonder when Allen was going to pronounce it finished; the men were obviously fed up. At last he let half the party go at 2.30 a.m. and told me to take them back.
Three men were wounded: one had his leg very badly smashed, and the other two had nice 'Blighties' one in the leg, the other in the nose. That was the first shot. Shell followed shell and bomb followed bomb in one continuous succession; a regular strafe began. The bottom was full of water; that did not matter; in we splashed, and only just in time. The shells were dropping everywhere.
It goes like this: "Oh, Fritzie that hands those Blighties out so free, Just send a nice sweet cushy one to me One that will strike me just below the knee. Six months in Blighty oh, how sweet 'twould be! "Send me a shell with pellets nice and round; Scatter them, all but one, upon the ground; Send me that one, but let it come a mile, And I will give you the sunshine of my smile."
It would not do for all company commanders to go over the top at once: the future has to be considered. One more reminiscence before I close this chapter. It was at Watou that fat Joye used to come into the tent and get me to talk to him about the war. I remember him coming in to see us the last night at Watou and saying to me that we would both have nice "Blighties" in the leg in a few days.
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