Going to war -- 'Quiet earnest faces': the national cause -- 'Glad to go': patriotic idealism -- 'Ready to go': training -- At the front -- 'Write as often as you can': letters and parcels -- 'Sticking it out': fear and shell shock -- 'A certain sense of safety with him': leadership -- 'Such a hopeless lot of babes': care for the men -- 'Drops of his blood on my hand': horror and endurance -- 'I merely did my duty': discipline and morale -- 'Very gallant in every way': early losses -- 'Blighty, oh blighty in about a week': leave -- 'I am serene, unafraid': the Somme -- 'Capable of finishing the job': battles of 1917-1918 -- 'The men cannot grasp it': armistice -- Sacrifice -- 'We will remember them': remembrance and commemoration -- 'All the best and choicest and unblemished': war heroes -- 'Among the happiest years I have every spent': survivors -- The Great War in perspective.