John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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careful shooting. At first I hated the killing of men, though Huns; but since the Hun Flying Corps has degenerated to deliberately bombing our hospitals and them claiming we purposely put them near munition stores – faugh! – after all, the Hun in the air is no better than his brother on the ground. I have ceased to attribute any quality of manhood to the whole race of them. May I be forgiven for my hate of them; but having come in contact with their dirty work and heard first hand of their horrible deeds one cannot believe that they are either a "civilized" or a Christian people. The nerve of them to ask us not to bomb Cologne on Corpus Christi Day! And the fools at home of course assented. They need not have bombed the town that day but could have withheld their promise to refrain from doing so and kept the Huns all on edge. Oh, how they (the Huns) squeal when their own cities are bombed in Reprisal Raids!
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.