British Heavy Trench Mortar at IWM Duxford
Friday 24th September 1915: Private W Fuller of 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, writing to his wife at 46 Pilcroft Street, Bedford said: “I am sending you the photograph of a piece of German culture. Of course it is only a rough sketch in front of a once beautiful chateau in France(1)”.
“Not ten yards from the front door lie the victims of German culture in their graves, the mother, two daughters and one infant, who were foully murdered by the Germans. A rough cross marks their resting place. Let the stay-at-home brigade only realise it. If it were their homes and people that the Germans had murdered it would fill their hearts with revenge and the sooner they come out here the better I say, and my comrades say “Three cheers for the little man from Wales”. They know who I mean – Lloyd George (2). Only the other night, whole on look-out, the Germans were singing “Love, I am lonely” but they did not remain lonely long, for the Major gave them about twelve, in their abode of love, of Lloyd George’s patent cough tablets(3) and they did not sing any more”.
“I see German prisoners are given nosegays and go for nice walks. They will get none of those things out here. The finest thing to give them is a high explosive of Lloyd George’s type”.
Source: Bedfordshire Times 1st October 1915
(1) Obviously destroyed by shell-fire
(2) Minister of Munitions at this date.
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