Canadian soldier Louis Keene on the realities of World War I

It’s all arranged for you, if there’s a bit of shell or a bullet with your name on it you’ll get it, so you’ve nothing to worry about. You are a soldier — then be one. This is the philosophy of the trenches.

Louis Keene, 1917

Reference

Keene, L. (1917). “Crumps”, the plain story of a Canadian who went. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28964/28964-0.txt

Robertson, H., Robert McLaughlin Gallery. (1977). A Terrible beauty: the art of Canada at war. Toronto: J. Lorimer, p. 49.