pat-ree

Updated: May 26, 2025

Allons infants dee la Pat-ree, La joor de glory is arrivay." Such bits of conversation may be of little interest, but they have the merit of being genuine. All of them were jotted down in my notebook at the times when I heard them. The following day we crowded into the typical French army troop train, eight chevaux or forty hommes to a car, and started on a leisurely journey to the firing-line.

James Norman Hall - Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army