We of the 47th relieved them in the line.
That was a long tour of trenches, some eighteen days beginning on the 29th of April, and throughout it papers came in with the Irish news.

I shall never forget the men's indignation.

They felt they had been stabbed in the back.

For myself, I thought that a situation had arisen in which Irish members who were serving had a more imperative duty at home, and I went to discuss the matter with Willie Redmond, whose battalion was then holding the front line to the left of Loos.
I found him in the deep company commander's dug-out in the bay of line opposite Puits 14 bis, which will be known to many Irish soldiers.

We came up to the light to talk, and he agreed with me in my view.