Tales from a Dugout

Empey, Arthur Guy · 1963

_the overaged, the women, the physically unfit and the children. These are the ones to be pitied, the ones who suffer most, because their hearts are on the battlefields of France, although their bodies must stay at home_. Picture a dugout in one of the front line trenches of France, damp and evil smelling, hardly deep enough to protect the inmates from a three-inch shell-burst. This hole in the ground will comfortably house four soldiers. Put seven of them with full equipment and a machine gun in it, and what results? I dare say in civilian life there would be only one outcome--TROUBLE. Well, in the army on the Western Front, this situation spells GOOD FELLOWSHIP.…

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