shrapnelled

Updated: June 20, 2025

I thought it a hard saying of an ardent salvationist lad, who told me of a transport sergeant's prayers one night in a ditch by a shrapnelled roadside, and of the same sergeant's reversion to apparent irreligion on return to safety. "I call it," said the boy, "cowardice."

N. S. (Neville Stuart) Talbot - Thoughts on religion at the front