Joshua Levine

Where were you wounded?

And he tried to put her off by saying, you know, in France.

And she said, no, no, where are we?

And eventually he got fed up and he said, madam, if you were wounded where I was wounded, you would not have been wounded at all.

Oh, yikes.

And she left and she never came back.

And so, you know, this is the idea.

You know, all these different kinds of wounds, injuries, some were able to come back.

So, you know, for example, if you had trench fever, you were taken off for a bit of a rest and then you were brought back as soon as possible.

But if you had something more serious, you ended up as one of those unfortunate people back in England who, you know, after the war ended up begging on the streets.

So, you know, it...

But the reverse of that was the postal system, because the authorities were very clever in the same way that they rotated.

They didn't rotate because they wanted people to have a decent time.

They rotated because they knew if you were in the front line for too long,

you were useless.

You weren't getting any sleep.

You were getting, if you're lucky, four or five hours of broken sleep a night lying on the fire step.

So you were doing all of these incredibly stressful jobs.

So you had to be, you were no use.

You had to be brought back and allowed to have more rest.