brown-mud

Updated: July 13, 2025

The country around us was mostly brown-mud shell-holes. Not like the shell-holes of that blasted hill-top of two months back I have never seen anything quite like that, though they say that Guillemont, which I have not seen, is as devastated. In this present area there is green grass between the rims of the craters. But not enough green grass to matter.

C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean - Letters from France