1: What was the initial draw that caused you to volunteer? Patriotism, family, personal reasons?

2: On which fronts were you involved with, and with noticing the differences was there any real difference between fighting in the different areas.

3: Was there ever a time when you completely lost all hope? IF so how did you manage to carry on?

4: Was there any time while in service that you found the military life enjoyable? What was the best position to have on the front?

5: Who in the end, do you think benefited from the war? Do you think that the war solved anthing?
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"I shall not easily forget those long winter nights in the front line.
Darkness fell about four in the afternoon and dawn was not until eight next morning.
These sixteen hours of blackness were broken by gun flashes, the gleam of star shells and punctuated by the scream of a shell or the sudden
heart-stopping rattle of a machine-gun. The long
hours crept by with leaden feet and sometimes
it seemed as if time itself was dead"


(F. Noakes, 'The Distant Drum')