S.I.W

quote about dad

Father would sooner him dead than in disgrace - was proud to see him gone

Quote from mum

Perhaps his mother whimpered how she’d fret until he got a nice safe wound to nurse

quote about sister

Sisters would wish girls too could shoot, charge, curse

Quote about torture

‘And misses teased the hunger of his brain’

Criticism of government

‘At the pleasure of this worlds Powers who’d run amok’

Expectations from home

Death sooner than dishonour that’s the style!

He’d seen men …

Shoot their hands, on night patrol. Their people never knew

Why did the soldier kill himself

‘It was the reasoned crisis of his soul Against more days of inescapable thrall’

Fire quote

‘Curtained with fire, roofed in with creeping fire, slow grazing fire, that would not burn him whole’