With a shrug. [WWI]

>Guy Chapman’s comrades in the Royal Fusiliers accepted the armistice with a shrug. >>On 11th November we marched back fifteen miles to Bethencourt. A blanket of fog covered the countryside. At eleven o’clock we slung on our packs and tramped along the muddy pave. The band played but there was very little singing. ‘Before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes, and a worn-out body.’ We were very old, very tired, and now very wise. _________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Envoi." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 614. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Chapman *Passionate Prodigality* p. 272. _________________________ **Further Reading:** [Major Guy Patterson Chapman OBE MC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Chapman)