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"dirty work". Hence you cannot tell their real natures offhand. Our S.M. (Sargent-Major, the highest noncommissioned officer they have) was a brute, bear, and monkey of a man; yet he was a fearless soldier who had "warm feet" at the very beginning and who had been wounded after existing in the trenches with the "illfated Princess Pats". Our flight sargents and corporals were strong on English drill and one was a great hulk of a man who walked with the light step of Miss Sixteen; the other was a slim little Cockney whose speech above everything [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] ^[[else]] about him made you both laugh at and like him.

In few words I believe the English officer to be a self complacent man whose belief that his race is the great "I am", is giving way, to include his allies, making it "we are"!