Read it in a postcard, coastguard, churchyard

[sovay]

Things We Want to Know.

1.—Who discovered the salient.

2.—Why.

—The Wipers Times, 26 February 1916

Comments

[ashlyme]

Bloody hell. There was a TV play about the Times:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/tv-review-the-wipers-times-bbc2-a-bit-like-blackadder-only-true-8810148.html

[sovay]

Bloody hell. There was a TV play about the Times

Yes! It's wonderful. I saw it in 2021. And with any luck it will play on YouTube in your country and happy Armistice Day.

[selkie]

Tag yourself, I'm Hellfire Corner.

[sovay]

Tag yourself, I'm Hellfire Corner.

"We regret to announce that an insidious disease is affecting the Division, and the result is a hurricane of poetry. Subalterns have been seen with a notebook in one hand, and bombs in the other absently walking near the wire in deep communication with their muse. Even Quartermasters with books, note, one, and pencil, copying, break into song while arguing the point re boots. gum, thigh. The Editor would be obliged if a few of the poets would break into prose as a paper cannot live by 'poems' alone."

[selkie]

If bad prose is my contribution to the war effort do I get my thigh-high gum boots or not? *ducks*

[sovay]

If bad prose is my contribution to the war effort do I get my thigh-high gum boots or not?

Go much better with your black pleather pants than puttees.

[moon_custafer]

*glares at John McCrae*

[sovay]

*glares at John McCrae*

Both the historical Fred Roberts and Jack Pearson would have been alive for the formation of the canon of war poets of the trenches and I bet they had opinions.