Being intelligent and to a certain degree educated, they are also employed in places where recruits only fit for service in the lower ranks would not be trusted, and we were told that they make excellent common soldiers.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It was the most telling line in winning our new crop of recruits.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
The other day I wrote about undersized, half-witted fellows who were caught by our men, and said the German man-power must be wearing thin if they sent recruits like this.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs