Mutter, Mutter, Mutter. [WWI]

>[Henry Williamson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Henry_Williamson_by_Charles_Tunnicliffe.jpg) retained one dominating image of breaking the Hindenburg line in 1918. It was: >>the sight of a Saxon boy crushed under a shattered tank, moaning’*Mutter, Mutter, Mutter* [**German: Mother**],’ out of ghastly grey lips. >>A British soldier, wounded in the leg, and sitting near by, hears the words, and dragging himself to the dying boy, takes his cold hand and says ‘All right, son, it’s all right. Mother’s here with you.’ _________________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Heart and Soul." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 553. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Williamson *Wet Flanders Plain* p. 18. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Henry William Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson) [Siegfriedstellung (Siegfried Position) / Hindenburg Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Line)