A little further on we came to a very jolly squadron, the cooks, who were peeling fresh vegetables and pouring them into immense wash-boilers, which, when filled, two privates seized by the handles and carried towards a big barracks some hundred yards distant.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
This one contained besides three privates a young officer with his arm in a sling, and he asked if we could give them water.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
The fighting all about this ground was by groups of English soldiers, in some cases without officers, and in some cases led by privates with a sense of leadership and fine, stern courage.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs