manhood!" If it should be my fate
to get popped off--well, it is we younger men without dependants
whose duty it is to take the risk. You will get some inkling of
my feeling when you read in Garvin's father's article how his
son, when sent off to the Divisional H.Q., lost all his spirits
and begged to be sent back to the old battalion, and how, when he
did get back to it, "his letters recovered their old clear tone."
How well I can understand that!

[Footnote 11: Lieutenant D. O. Barnett, killed in action,
1916, was a distinguished scholar and athlete at St. Paul's
School. His career there presents a striking similarity to
that of Paul Jones at Dulwich. Both won junior and senior
scholarships; both ended their school career by winning a
Balliol scholarship; both shone in athletics; Barnett was
captain of St. Paul's School; Paul Jones was head of the
Modern Side at Dulwich.]

My application for a transfer to the R.F.A. has now gone in. If I
am refused I shall be broken-hearted, but my conscience will be
clear. If I am accepted, it will be the happiest day of my life.

A few words now about some personal experiences. At a certain
village not far from here are a number of Boche prisoners. Every
day they go out to shovel refuse into army wagons, and then
unload these wagons elsewhere on to refuse heaps. It is a daily
occurrence to see a Boche mount up on the box beside the English
driver, and off they go--if the Boche can speak English--chatting
merrily as if there had never been a war. I have even seen Tommy
hand over the reins to his captive, who cheerfully takes them and
drives the wagon to its destination, while the real driver sits
back with folded arms. That will show you how far the British
soldier cultivates the worship of Hate. It is small incidents of
this kind, unofficial and even illegal though they may be, that
make one realise the true secret of Britain's greatness--her
magnanimity and her kindliness.

_August 14th, 1916._

The Dulwich Army List makes very interesting reading, though I
notice some omissions and errors in it. Everyone seems to be
doing something. It is as good a record as that of any other
school or institution of any kind in the coun