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Updated: May 2, 2025
We had gone to work at eight o'clock feeling unusually good we expected to be relieved at seven that night, and we had been promised a seven days' leave to Blighty, so I could hardly wait for the day to pass.
Corporal G gone! It's impossible." One expects shells and death in the line, but three or four miles behind it one grows accustomed, so to speak, to live in a fool's paradise. We went round to see our casualties, and I found two of my platoon, bandaged in the leg and arm, sitting in a group of their pals, who were congratulating them on having got "soft Blighty ones."
Tyke me back to Blighty, That's the plyce for me. It doesn't look like much and I'm afraid my rendition of cockney dialect into print isn't quite up to Kipling's. But the song had a pretty little lilting melody, and it went big. They made me sing it about a dozen times and were all joining in at the end. Then they got sentimental and gloomy.
The sudden opening of a distant door released a roar of voices singing, "Take me back to Blighty!" a rousing demand which instantly recalled the sergeant-major to his duty. "Well, sir," he said, "I must be moving; so I'll wish you good-bye, and the best of luck." "The same to you, Ryan. You'll let us have a line to say how you get on, won't you?"
However many diagrams and wonderful ideas these remarkable amateur experts publish they won't "go down" with the man who has humped his pack and has "been out." Mention the word "Blighty" or "Tickler's plum-and-apple," "Kangaroo Beach" or "Jhill-o!
Little Robbie, a boy who had joined up with me at Moose Jaw, turned to me and said, "Well, Bob, this is where I get mine, and I hope I'll get it right through the bean life's no pleasure to me." "Aw, cheer up," said I; "you may get a nice Blighty." "No," said he; "I belong to a bunch that get it good and hard when it comes at all."
He seemed to regain consciousness to a certain extent and asked me from time to time, "Sister, am I dying?" "Will I see me old mother again, Sister?" "Why have you taken me off the Blighty ship, Sister?"
As though committing hara-kiri, he slashed his hand across his stomach, and then drew it up from his waist to his chin. "I'm scraped with shrapnel from there to there," said Mr. Hamlin. "And another time I got a ball in the shoulder. That would have been a 'blighty' for a fighting man they're always giving them leave but all I got was six weeks at Havre in hospital.
Take me back to Blighty; Blighty is the place for me! rang out with great enthusiasm from the darkness underground. "When we did go upstairs again daylight had dawned. We left the mine at 4.20 a.m. Giffin went, with one or two men, back to the trench to replace the camouflage; he told me to get back to the Ramparts with the remainder as quickly as possible. I did so.
He started on the last journey unnoticed save by the man standing next him; and Gawd above! what's the use? They'd been together for two years, share and share alike; and now the end. Putting up a bit of rusty wire round a sap. . . . "Easy, boy, easy. 'Ere, cut them ruddy braces away. 'Orl rite, old son, you've copped a Blighty. Thro' yer stummik Gor luv yer no.
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