stick'em

Updated: May 27, 2025

They were blooded. The lies they told those cheery lads! Not a man had done in less than forty Boches, which rose to eighty when they wrote their girls. What matter? D Company of the Stick'em and be damned was made for life. The men walked three inches higher; the men, as men, had come into their own.

H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile - No Man's Land