TOMMY ATKINS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 3

TOMMY ATKINS.

A FRENCHMAN'S TRIBUTE

London, March 5

A Frenchman living near Lo Bassw writes: We arc beginning to understand the spirit of your "Tommies;." One day they lose several trenches, but it doesn't upset them or us. We know that they will keep their pledged word to retake them. I met a British company returning after four days in the trenches. They did not look like human beings. Thove was not a trace of a uniform. They were merely walking blocks oi mvd —and they could hardly walk, poor fellows. We can never overestimate what they are doing for us. Despite the discomfort, they never complain, and are just as keen as on the first clay.