Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 112   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)

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1916 September 28 - Sutton Veny - p.4
Expresses admiration for a Tommy nice to a kid.
"Tommy really is a rather nice animal, especially the wounded variety who
as been the front and got a bit of sense knocked into him. It really
and truly seems to improve a man to see death and destruction and battles
and hardships of all kinds. The ones who come back are simply not to
be compared with the ones who have never been out."
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 112   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)