Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks
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be exerted and to be tested.
The gathering generally occurs at dusk with guns roaring & shells bursting.
If it was like some of the things we had to do each man knows full well that the chances are against his coming out of it unhurt - And though they talk so freely about the joy of receiving a blighty they know that this may mean agony sustained through days of exposure in the rain & mud possibly to be concluded by a still more ghastly wound.
This is the time when one's heart glows to see how the men respond & how cheerfully they face what is ahead.
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.