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Blighty Hopes and the Wounded Tommy’s Ward
A WWI hospital ward scene recalls a wounded singer’s memory of Somme battles. The narrator, hit by three bullets, lies among Tommies while a cheerful medic and stretcher bearers coordinate care and banter. As one patient awaits Blighty, questions of fate and discharge mix with humor and camaraderie.
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the Somme
New York
Statue of Liberty
Singer
Tommy
Squire Daig
Royal Army Medical Corps
Frawnce
Awkins
Jim
Mike
Royal Irish Rifles
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Jones
M. O
Britain
Devil Man
Trishman
France
Que
James Collins
Royal Warwicks
Tony
Garry Sate
England
Brigade
Mons
Base Hospital
Trafalgar Square
Jane