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Excerpt from 'D' Company, And, Black 'Ell: Two Plays
D' company was written towards the close of 1914, while I was a private in a Territorial battalion at Malta.
It is, in one sense, real: there is scarcely a sentence in it that I did not hear, or an episode I did not witness.
It is, in another sense, unreal: it is impossible, even for the purposes of realism, to set down here in print the actual language of my barrack-room. The three or four unpleasant words that occurred extraordinarily often and in the queerest series of combinations and connections, not only created a certain atmosphere of ugliness that would be necessary for any really true picture of life then, but also supplied a sort of lilt to the conversation that cannot be reproduced without them.
I should like to add here that while those months were, I think, the unhappiest I have lived through, I have the very liveliest memories of much from my companions and friends of 'd' Company, for which I feel I can never be sufficiently grateful.
Some slight foot trouble was responsible for mybeing invalided home and out of the Army. That was in January, 1915.
Since then my view of this colossal catastrophe of the war has changed.
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