Name: They Shall Not Grow Old
Released: 2019-02-28
Duration: 1 h 39 min

Words to remember

Nouns

1) duckboards

When it was pouring with rain, and on slippery duckboards,
2) puttee

We were all issued with these famous puttee,
3) shellfire

There were stunted trees torn to shreds with shellfire
4) bandsman

now became a transport man, a bandsman, signalman, and so on.
5) rasher

butter, one rasher of Lance Corporal bacon,
6) piddle

It was one-and-nine stuff. One pint, nine piddle.‘
7) tuppence

it didn't matter tuppence to me where we went.‘
8) signalman

now became a transport man, a bandsman, signalman, and so on.
9) exultation

There was an exultation that with a rifle, bayonet and Mills bombs,
10) bogeyman

beyond which were bogeymen who would kill you if they ever saw you.
11) gangway

As our horses were brought down the gangway,
12) sandbag

A bed made of sandbag.‘
13) loudmouth

This sergeant of ours was the loudmouth shouting-type.‘
14) laddie

Keep moving, laddie!
15) latrine

so I went into one of the trench latrine
16) louse

and "chatty" as we used to call it, with these lice.‘
17) peal

like a peal of thunder in the distance.‘
18) sardine

We were filling up the trenches, packed in like sardine.‘
19) whimper

It didn't end with a whimper, but something very much like one.
20) rifleman

So, the next thing, I was made a first-class rifleman.‘
21) grog

-Got any grog? -See you later on.
22) trestle

and there were long trestle tables with very kind ladies.
23) periscope

As you looked through your periscope
24) barrack

but we had to do sometimes barrack duties.
25) overcoat

The overcoat had to be folded very, very neatly and tightly.
26) quartermaster

The clothing came piecemeal into the quartermaster's stores.‘
27) placard

There was a big placard: "War declared on Germany."
28) armistice

the Germans were also negotiating for an armistice.‘

Verbs

1) outgun

The Germans are now outnumbered and outgun
2) demobilise

after I'd got demobilise, I went down the stores,
3) entrain

We entrain to Victoria and there we broke up.
4) strew

Legs, arms, all strew over the place and that arid smell of explosion.‘
5) betide

It was a job to keep awake and woe betide you if you were caught asleep.’
6) terrify

but I was terrified lest I should lose an arm or a leg.
7) extricate

We extricate ourselves from the mud
8) infest

And I personally became really badly infest
9) drench

this thing turned up and he was drench from top to bottom in fluid.
10) liven

As our great push drew nearer, the line liven up,
11) shoo

We were shoo them back, you know, get rid of them.‘
12) dissect

A shell had dissect him nicely
13) decompose

the mud of decompose bodies of humans and mules, and that was the end of you.
14) cramp

lt numbed and cramp the muscles on my thighs and calves
15) instill

We were all instill with that idea
16) deteriorate

In the winter time, as the weather deteriorate,
17) enlist

and I went up to Whitehall and enlist in the 16th Lancers.‘
18) plough

because of the shelling and we plough over the lot.
19) nab

and | nab them, because things were so scarce,
20) slump

nobody said a word, everybody just slump away.
21) vanish

Well, all my romantic ideas of war completely vanish.‘
22) crouch

We crouch down underneath the front parapet to dodge the debris falling
23) embark

We embark on one of the old Thames pleasure boats.‘
24) pave

the floors of the trenches were just pave with liquid mud
25) swirl

The water was swirl about our feet and rising higher and higher
26) numb

lt numb and cramped the muscles on my thighs and calves
27) dissolve

l dissolve into unconsciousness with no pain,
28) barge

and it barge into the one in front,

Adverbs

1) funnily

And, funnily enough, five or six German prisoners came along
2) piecemeal

The clothing came piecemeal into the quartermaster's stores.‘
3) casually

but you took it casually because I suppose you become battle-hardened.’
4) enormously

I think myself that it did help them enormously. Took their minds off it.
5) immensely

l was immensely delighted to find shell holes in which I picked
6) invariably

The reply invariably came back, "Bloody awful, mate."
7) neatly

The overcoat had to be folded very, very neatly and tightly.
8) thankfully

Thankfully, I moved on.
9) darn

You've got to learn how to cook for yourself, darn your own socks,
10) medically

If he was dead, then he was no trouble, medically.‘
11) ironically

to what was somewhat ironically called "rest".
12) terribly

When I got out to France, l was terribly pleased.
13) luckily

and, luckily, I seemed to cotton onto that quite quickly.‘
14) remarkably

but remarkably little, and it seemed almost too good to be true.
15) desperately

l was desperately keen.
16) underneath

There might have been dead bodies underneath.
17) tightly

The overcoat had to be folded very, very neatly and tightly.
18) mentally

And they were mentally tired out.
19) practically

To some of us, it was practically the only life we'd known.
20) nicely

A shell had dissected him nicely
21) whatsoever

"No talking whatsoever! Keep your head down!
22) sufficiently

because I wasn't sufficiently up in the ways of the world.
23) gradually

So, gradually, the 1,000 men who joined up as a motley throng,
24) wherever

The trench was very wet and, wherever possible,
25) overhead

Bullets were catching us and shrapnel was coming down overhead
26) literally

You could literally feel your heart pounding against the ground.
27) damn

In fact, some of those Bavarians were damn good, decent people.
28) aside

neatly cut aside.

Adjectives

1) underfed

Yes, they were underfed and they were in very poor shape.‘
2) sodden

so the trenches got more and more sodden with water
3) riotous

Now, that's a week of riotous living.
4) untoward

If nothing untoward happened, there would be perhaps
5) tinned

Magonoghie's tinned stew was mixed up with the bully beef.‘
6) indescribable

The carnage is just indescribable.‘
7) pliable

So, to get your boots made pliable,
8) sickly

Nasty, sickly smell. You never forgot that smell.‘
9) deluded

And some of the poor, deluded ones fell for the con trick
10) motorised

There was no motorised transport then for guns.
11) disinterested

Most people were absolutely disinterested.‘
12) derelict

We went through towns, villages, that were absolutely derelict,
13) regimental

We had this regimental sports day
14) dazed

You were so dazed that you could stand up straight and not be shot.‘
15) aggrieved

Oh, my mother was very aggrieved about it
16) desolate

It was one of the most desolate-looking places in the world.
17) unarmed

who were all unarmed and ljust had my old gun.‘
18) barbed

he usually carries a roll of barbed wire or bag of bombs,
19) viscous

Very viscous indeed.
20) subdued

Oh, they were really cowed they were, yes, they were very subdued.‘
21) degenerate

We got so degenerate, so isolated, living in this mud.
22) swish

I didn't realise that the swish-swish were bullets.‘
23) stubborn

German troops were very brave and very stubborn.‘
24) dreadful

Oh, lice was a dreadful problem.‘
25) fearful

and fearful of what we were going to do to him.
26) sheltered

We were all youngsters. We'd come from fairly sheltered lives and so forth.
27) incapable

Some people might be incapable of thinking.
28) frightened

When they came to us, they were weedy, sallow, skinny, frightened children.

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