“IF YOUNG MEN COULD SEE.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 49, 27 October 1915, Page 2

“IF YOUNG MEN COULD SEE.”

SOLDIER'S WORD TO SLACKERS. Supper C. E. Browning, of the Royal Engineers, iu a I>ecent letter to his 'parents in England, says:— ,“W e have seen some heartrending sights. We have been iu a wood putting up reserve trenches about iOU yards irom the bring trench, and to K et there we have to puss through a little village. The poor women and 'die children were scattered about m 'the roads and fields, while their little j homes were burning like a imuace. Two or three little children had been killed' and even while we were pass- ' ing through, the shells and bricks I were Hying everywhere. 1 “The poor old people do not kuo 1 , , , n „ n Many of them are i ‘JlvTug near the bring line, for they ! don’t like to leave them little homes. I “It the young men at homo coul 'only see what was going on out heie, 'and realise what it would mean to them if these old people were th-u owll fathers and mothers, they would Ihe cowards not to come out and do 'their bit.”