Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;

Cleansed of servile panic, slow lo dread or despise

Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice....

So ye shall bide sure guarded when the restless lightnings wake

In the womb of the blotting war cloud, and the pallid nations quake.

Rudyard Kipling



DIARY KEPT BY
RIFLEMAN B. C. STUBBS
OF THE SECOND DRAFT
SENT TO THE
QUEEN VICTORIA RIFLES
IN FRANCE