Sentry duty turns one British Corporal into a sex addict [WWI].

>Most soldiers of the old regular army had a vigorous interest in sex, and the likes of Frank Richards were usually prepared to engage a fleeting target at a moment’s notice. Wartime soldiers ranged from the determinedly moral to those who quickly discovered an appetite for casual sex which might have lain dormant but for the war. >Patriotic girls in England were often happy to oblige departing warriors, and one of Eric Hiscock’s comrades, Corporal Thomas (his real name Reginald, but universally known as John), embarked upon a lifelong obsession after a barmaid from the Eagle and Child public house in Oxford slipped into his sentry box outside the Corn Exchange to make the Ultimate Sacrifice. >He constantly volunteered for guard thereafter, and would stagger off duty ‘exultant but weary’. ______________________________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Heart and Soul." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 596. Print. _______________________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Francis Philip Woodruff DCM, MM / Frank Richards]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Philip_Woodruff)