nine-two-ought-three-six

Updated: May 25, 2025

. . . have maintained and consolidated our position in the captured trench. EXTRACT FROM OFFICIAL DESPATCH. Number nine-two-ought-three-six, Sapper Duffy, J., 'A' Section, Southland Company, Royal Engineers, had been before the War plain Jem Duffy, labourer, and as such had been an ardent anti-militarist, anti-conscriptionist, and anti-everything else his labour leaders and agitators told him.

Boyd Cable - Between the Lines