re forgotten by Generals who developed their new strategy of "attrition". (http://www.rockingham/ww1.html)
             At the Armistice there was very little celebration by the battle-weary front-line soldiers. That the War had ended and that they, despite fearful odds, were still alive was often difficult to comprehend. Once the fact had been assimilated; however, all they wanted to do was to go back home to a country they knew and to cherished relatives and families. In the following years many former soldiers suffered countless disappointments, after the initial jubilation of their return was over, they felt themselves to be un-thanked and unappreciated. In Britain living conditions in industrialized towns were poor and work very hard to come-by, especially during the Depression years of the 1930s.
             Many never talked to anyone about their experiences in the trenches. Perhaps they just wanted to put from their minds the harrowing memories of those awful times, or maybe they thought that no one who had not been there cou
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