The Man in the RanksHoughton Mifflin, 1917 - 99 pages This is a handbook created for U.S. soldiers who were headed to Europe to join the allies in the First World War. Written by Gallishaw, (a Newfoundland author who fought with the Newfoundland Regiment in the war), and Lynch (an instructor in the U.S. Army), this manual mainly instructs soldiers who are fresh to the battle about how to conduct themselves around other soldiers and civilians. The handbook also contains advice on making life in the trenches as simple as possible, as well as pages to be used as a diary and an address book. |
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Page 77 - Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day...
Page 76 - No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look to another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother.
Page 75 - So live that you can look every damn man in the eye and tell him to go to hell
Page 84 - You will have to spend from six to eight long, lonesome weeks in the company of the riff-raff and scum of your own and other regiments, and forever after you will be branded by your fellows.
Page 83 - Only one thing happens to those who play with fire. Sooner or later they get burned. The kind And while you are being laundered in to amid" hospital your pay will be stopped.