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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 89 for its run to London. Almost every window servedto frarn? an outward-gazing soldier, officer or man, inragged, bloodstained, m.uddy khaki. These were thesitting-up cases, nearly all with heads bandaged orarms in slings. Just near the dock gates the hospital train metanother equally long train coming in, and packed fronaend to end with fresh troops bound out for Francefrom some Englis-h depot camp. Each of its windowsframed not one, but two or three men in khaki, red,lusty faces, well sun-browned, looking out over theclose-cropped heads of their mates ; full of eager curiosityand expectation and fresh clean robustness. For 50 yards or so, and at a foot pace, the two con-trasting trains of King Greorges solciers glided side byside in an uncanny silence. The writer watched them from an office windowoverhead, and could plainly see in the faces of theuntried troops their eager interest, their profoundrespect for their comrades who had been tried. Astrange,

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