A GHOSTLY ARMY.
“Towards the Peace of Nations,” by Mr Hugh Dalton, M.P., contains the following striking passages:
“In the Great War the statisticians tell us, ten million soldiers were killed and twenty million wounded, nine million children lost their fathers, and five . million soldiers’ wives were widowed. Imagine yourself privileged to stand an emperor or a field-mar-shal, or an elder statesman, to receive at the gates of death the salute of those vanished hosts. Marching in columns of fours they would take 80 days and 80 nights to pass you, marching unbrokenly through all the hours of light and darkness arid dawn and dusk; and for eight days and nights out of those eighty it would be the British dead alone who would be marching by.”
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17419, 6 September 1928, Page 8
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127A GHOSTLY ARMY. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17419, 6 September 1928, Page 8
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