Coward to Hero Lloyd Death Redeems D Company
An American in a British army memoir tells of Albert Lloyd dubbed windy and then desertion, facing execution, escaping and later loading a machine gun to save D company in France. He dies a hero at the gun, redeemed in a funeral procession with his unit.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Amerifen
Jersey City
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Empey
France
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Guapter V
Tommy
Emey
Emper
Wo Man's Land
No Man's Hand
Oyey
Hmpey
Ampey
West
Albert Lloyd
London
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hMs
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Aldershot
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Lloyd's Company
Trommes
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Rouen
H. S. Wheaton
R. F
R. Lpw
Jaddie
D Company
Old Smith
Tag *Batt
Ile
S Lilacsan
D" Company
No Man's Lang
Good Old Company
Hove
Guo
Boyd
Preparing for the Big Push in WWI Front Lines
The narrator recounts rejoining Atwell after execution time, losing weight in worry. From seven in the evening they cordon and report suspicious activity while patrolling trenches. Behind the lines, vast movements of troops, supplies, and guns build toward the Somme offensive, a spectacle few can describe.
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Frevent
Lloyd
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Atwell
Somme
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