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they had not time to complete plucking them, or that they had been kept so long that the feathers had had time to row again, I knownot – jusging by the time it took me to get my fork into it I should think the latter was the case.
Here as elsewhere Death stalked – four of my comrades passed out within a few hours of each other – an inert mass covered with the Union Jack is borne away – thus, one by one, they passed into the Infinite, leaving behind a name that shall ever ring glorious.
As I look into the distant future when the sound of guns is but an echo of the past, in grand array shall I see the spirits of these my comrades marching past, who in the greatness of their souls have handed to future generations a fuller, deeper meaning of the word Patriotism.
Signaller Ellis Silas
1916
[Transcribed by Rex Minter and Betty Smith for the State Library of New South Wales]