The Great War - A Memoir of a Soldier

Wilfred's time at the front totalled not much over a year, yet he got to know the war in a way i never did. He's certainly the only person i know that ever saw the piper. I was never sent for treatment for shell shock or injury. And even my encounter with a german flame thrower only ended up with me in a front line hospital at wipers. But deep down i know that honour such as it is has to go to wilfred. You wouldn't have thought it from his poems.

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