Leaving the Picture

As we were going "over" at Passchendaele a big one dropped just behind

our company runner and myself. Our runner gave a shout and stumbling on

a little way, with his hand on his side, said: "Every picture tells a

story"--and went down.

I just stopped to look at him, and I am sorry to say his war had

finished. He came from Bow.--_G. Hayward (late Rifle Brigade), Montague

Street, W.C.1._

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