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Updated: July 25, 2025
It isn't, of course, an ideal way of working not like putting on a hat and strolling out to war, as one sometimes could do in the early weeks in Belgium and France. The front is a big and rather accidental place, however you can scarcely touch it anywhere without bringing back something to help complete the civilian's puzzle picture of the war.
There were troubles in every life, even if it was a civilian's as we soldiers always called those who didn't wear the Queen's uniform and it was very doubtful whether we should have been a bit happier, if we had been in any other line. But all the same, government might have made things a little better for us in the way of suitable clothes, and things proper for the climate.
She could tell, merely by looking at them in their civilian's clothes, which were army and which navy men, which "R.N.s" and which merchant- service men. We spoke of a young lieutenant from an India artillery regiment. "Yes 'garrison-gunner," she said. She was sorry for the German people, but the Kaiser was "quite off his rocker and had to be licked."
The pretty maid heard the gruesome intelligence without any signs of distress. But she pressed her lips together thoughtfully. "He isn't parading the town," she remarked in a low tone. "Far from it." "The civilian's family is making an awful row," continued Lieut. D'Hubert, pursuing his train of thought. "And the general is very angry. It's one of the best families in the town.
That's the reason he calls me 'a fine young man." A young friend who was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute called on my sisters one evening, and remarked, just for something to say: "Do you know this is the first civilian's house I have entered in Lexington."
After the work was done the civilian's eye could grasp the principle. If one trench were taken, the men knew exactly how to fall back on the next, which commanded the ground they had left. The trenches were not continuous. There were open spaces left purposely. All that front was literally locked, and double and triple locked, with trenches.
Why, Graham, you no more look like the young man that played whist with me years since than I do. You have grown broad- shouldered and distingue, and you have the true military air in spite of that quiet civilian's dress." "Oh, I shall always be comparatively insignificant," replied Graham, laughing. "Wait till Hilland wears the stars, as he surely will, and then you'll see a soldier."
We knew that coats were coming for us, and were particularly anxious to get them before they were disfigured with the rings which they would put on or with this band of cloth. If we could get the coats as they came from the Red Cross, they would look quite like civilian's coats, and be a great help to us when we made our next escape.
"True enough, as to years, but I have a feeling that age will overtake me sooner than others. I often feel as if it were autumn with me now." The other man, who might have been a few years the speaker's senior, was slender, and of middle height, and clad in civilian's dress. He shook his head impatiently at his companion's last observation.
I had supposed him to be a lieutenant in civilian's dress, for his dark mustache, small whiskers, and the military cut of his hair, which already began to be somewhat thin, made me add a lustrum to his twenty-one years.
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