... you felt those bandages must be all a mummery. Were these really wounded soldiers who had passed through the awful Battle of the Somme, or were they fellows dressed up to represent them ? There was an air of waggish unreality about the whole picture. ...

... round through a knot of ruined villages, returning from observation post,’ from which I had been watching this glorious battle of the Somme, came,’ says Lord Ksher, upon the familiar kilts and some familiar faces of a battalion of the Black Watch. After all ...