WW1 Veteran British
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captain never was commanding B company, one of our two a sorting companies. And a few days before the battle of the Somme, he came to me with a suggestion as he had $400 to go and knew that it would be covered by machine gun fire. It would be helpful if he could furnish each platoon with a football. Ah, and allow them to kick it forward and follow it if a man came across the football and he could kick it forward, But he mustn't chase after it. It did help them enormously. It took their minds off it. What I did remember was on the eve of the battle, the whole earth trembled. And and you could feel the vibrations coming up through the earth, huh?