Tales of War

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Tales of War was first published in 1918 and the text is in the public domain. The transcription was done by William McClain [email protected], 2002. A printed version of this book is available from Sattre Press, http://tow.sattre-press.com. It includes a new introduction and photographs of the author.

He said: ``There were only twenty houses in Daleswood. A place you would scarcely have heard of. A village up top of the hills.

``When the war came there was no more than thirty men there between sixteen and forty-five. They all went.

``They all kept together; same battalion, same platoon. They was like that in Daleswood. Used to call the hop pickers foreigners, the ones that come from London. They used to go past Daleswood, some of them, every year, on their way down to the hop fields. Foreigners they used to call them. Kept very much to themselves, did the Daleswood people. Big woods all round them.

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