Of the work of the "Sappers", in the Great War, one cannot speak too highly.

Brave and efficient, they were always working and co-operating enthusiastically with the infantry.
Every week now that passed was deepening that sense of comradeship which bound our force together.

The mean people, the men who thought only of themselves, were either being weeded out or taught that there was no place for selfishness in the army.

One great lesson was impressed upon me in the war, and that is, how wonderfully the official repression of wrong thoughts and jealousies tends to their abolition.

A man who lets his wild fancies free, and gives rein to his anger and selfishness, is going to become the victim of his own mind.
If people at home could only be prevented, as men were in the war, from saying all the bitter and angry things they feel, and from criticising the actions of their neighbours, a different temper of thought would prevail.