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You seldom saw a shattered cemetery.
Mr. Savage describes some divine inspiration in locating a safe place to sleep.
My great coat never dried the whole time I was there.
Mr. Savage describes being in the trenches for the first time, and some aspects of what life in the trenches was like.
They had a good business...oeufs and chips.
Mr. Savage describes an amusing remedy for lack of shelter while on leave, and discusses how friendly local women sold oeufs (eggs) and chips to the soldiers.
He couldn’t understand what I wanted.
Mr. Savage describes sweeping a captured trench and taking a very modest souvenir from a captured German soldier.
He was crying, scared to death!
Mr. Savage describes the circumstances of his being wounded during a barrage at Albert, and being treated in the Casualty Clearing Station.
Escaping under the barbed wire.
Mr. Savage describes his barbed wire repair crew coming under machine gun attack, and his efforts to get his crew back to the safety of their trench.
Camouflage lessons came in handy
Mr. Savage reminisces about his First World War experience and his encounter with a Second World War returnee whom he had trained for battle.
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