If you done the slightest thing that was not according to the routine, military routine, you was termed, well should I say, a ‘coward’ on active service.

Well that could easily come about by….When you got in the line, especially the first time, well, you left England, you was full of beans, you wanted to see the war, you wanted to get to it, you volunteered for it and you wanted to get into it. Well, once you got in those trenches and you had a battering of shell-fire, machine gun and shell-fire, you altered your tune a little bit then, you realised what war was like.