They Shall Not Grow Old

00:34:35,260 --> 00:34:37,761 <font color="#00ff00">..and in a fifth of a second,</font> <font color="#00ff00">your resolution would break</font> 670 00:34:37,761 --> 00:34:39,636 <font color="#00ff00">and you'd throw yourself down</font> <font color="#00ff00">into the mud</font> 671 00:34:39,636 --> 00:34:41,927 <font color="#00ff00">and the other ones</font> <font color="#00ff00">would laugh at you.</font> 672 00:34:41,927 --> 00:34:44,844 <font color="#ffffff">The shrapnel shell would burst</font> <font color="#ffffff">in the air and spray bullets</font> 673 00:34:44,844 --> 00:34:46,428 <font color="#ffffff">on the troops below.</font> 674 00:34:48,261 --> 00:34:49,678 <font color="#ffffff">As if they were from a shotgun.</font> 675 00:34:51,595 --> 00:34:55,136 <font color="#ffffff">The bullets came down,</font> <font color="#ffffff">whistling like all the hobs of hell.</font> 676 00:34:58,970 --> 00:35:01,845 <font color="#00ffff">Another one of the annoyances</font> <font color="#00ffff">we had was the Germans</font> 677 00:35:01,845 --> 00:35:03,470 <font color="#00ffff">were very active with mining.</font> 678 00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:07,554 <font color="#00ffff">We crouched down underneath</font> <font color="#00ffff">the front parapet</font> 679 00:35:07,554 --> 00:35:09,054 <font color="#00ffff">to dodge the debris falling,</font> 680 00:35:09,054 --> 00:35:12,804 <font color="#00ffff">and I got the men to open up</font> <font color="#00ffff">rapid fire to prevent the Germans</font> 681 00:35:12,804 --> 00:35:16,388 <font color="#00ffff">from getting into that crater</font> <font color="#00ffff">where they could bomb us.</font> 682 00:35:16,388 --> 00:35:19,304 <font color="#00ff00">If the front line gets damaged,</font> <font color="#00ff00">it's got to be repaired.</font> 683 00:35:19,304 --> 00:35:21,013 <font color="#00ff00">Well,</font> <font color="#00ff00">the people who are in the line,</font> 684 00:35:21,013 --> 00:35:22,763 <font color="#00ff00">they've got to get on with it.</font> 685 00:35:22,763 --> 00:35:27,222 <font color="#ffffff">I had in my mind that we expected</font> <font color="#ffffff">big gunfire to light amongst</font> 686 00:35:27,222 --> 00:35:30,555 <font color="#ffffff">all us cavalry and absolutely</font> <font color="#ffffff">swipe us off the face of the Earth.</font> 687 00:35:34,430 --> 00:35:36,347 <font color="#00ffff">I shouted, "Gallop!" like that.</font> 688 00:35:36,347 --> 00:35:38,639 <font color="#00ff00">They dropped 'em all at once,</font> <font color="#00ff00">the horses.</font> 689 00:35:39,972 --> 00:35:42,222 <font color="#00ff00">Oh, a heck of a mess.</font> 690 00:35:42,222 --> 00:35:45,223 <font color="#ffffff">The horses were laying down,</font> <font color="#ffffff">with their intestines hanging out,</font> 691 00:35:45,223 --> 00:35:48,264 <font color="#ffffff">and men with matter hanging out</font> <font color="#ffffff">of theirs.</font> 692 00:35:48,264 --> 00:35:50,764 <font color="#ffffff">"And that, boys," they said,</font> <font color="#ffffff">"the bloody Germans!"</font> 693 00:35:50,764 --> 00:35:53,765 <font color="#ffffff">To lose a horse was</font> <font color="#ffffff">like losing a friend.</font> 694 00:35:53,765 --> 00:35:56,556 <font color="#ffffff">The Brigadier turned</font> <font color="#ffffff">to our captain and he says,</font> 695 00:35:56,556 --> 00:35:58,557 <font color="#ffffff">"See that the boy has</font> <font color="#ffffff">two or three days' rest.</font> 696 00:35:58,557 --> 00:36:00,182 <font color="#ffffff">"When a boy likes an animal</font> <font color="#ffffff">like that,</font> 697 00:36:00,182 --> 00:36:02,640 <font color="#ffffff">"there's not a lot wrong with him."</font> 698 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,265 <font color="#00ffff">Over the whole of the front line,</font> <font color="#00ffff">there was a smell.</font> 699 00:36:05,265 --> 00:36:07,515 <font color="#00ffff">It wasn't a complicated smell,</font> 700 00:36:07,515 --> 00:36:10,557 <font color="#00ffff">it was the smell</font> <font color="#00ffff">of decaying corpses.</font> 701 00:36:10,557 --> 00:36:12,766 <font color="#00ff00">Nasty, sickly smell.</font> 702 00:36:12,766 --> 00:36:14,349 <font color="#00ff00">You never forgot that smell.</font> 703 00:36:14,349 --> 00:36:16,933 <font color="#ffffff">FLIES BUZZ</font> 704 00:36:16,933 --> 00:36:18,558 <font color="#ffffff">It was the smell of death.</font> 705 00:36:18,558 --> 00:36:22,808 <font color="#ffffff">If you've ever smelt a dead mouse,</font> <font color="#ffffff">it was like that, but hundreds</font> 706 00:36:22,808 --> 00:36:24,766 <font color="#ffffff">and hundreds of times worse.</font> 707 00:36:26,641 --> 00:36:28,100 <font color="#ffffff">It seemed to cling to everything.</font> 708 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:31,767 <font color="#ffffff">Wh