Tommy

Joseph Hocking

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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• Langue: English

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Produced by Al Haines

Title: Tommy Author: Joseph Hocking Release Date: April 4, 2008 [EBook #24986] Language: English

BY

TOMMY

AUTHOR OF "ALL FOR A SCRAP OFPAPER" "DEARER THAN LIFE" ETC.

JOSEPH HOCKING

HODDER AND STOUGHT

LONDON —— NEW YORK —— TORONTO

MCMXVI

ON

TWO GREAT WAR STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING

ALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER DEARER THAN LIFE

OTHER STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING

 Facing Fearful Odds  O'er Moor and Fen  The Wilderness  Rosaleen O'Hara  The Soul of Dominie Wildthorne  Follow the Gleam  David Baring  The Trampled Cross

NOTE

My only qualification for writing this simple story of "Tommy" is that I have tried to know him, and that I greatly admire him. I met him before he joined the army, when for more than six months I addressed recruiting meetings. I have also been with him in training camps, and spent many hours talking with him. It was during those hours that he opened his heart to me and showed me the kind of man he is. Since then I have visited him in France and Flanders. I have been with him down near La Bassée, and Neuve Chapelle. I have talked with him while great guns were booming as well as during his hours of well-earned rest, when he was in a garrulous mood, and was glad to crack a joke "wi' a man wearin' a black coat." I have also been with him up at Ypres, when the shells were shrieking over our heads, and the "pep, pep, pep" of machine guns heralded the messengers of death. We stood side by side in the front trenches, less than a hundred yards from the German sand-bags, when to lift one's head meant a Hun's bullet through one's brain, and when "woolly bears" were common. So although I am not a soldier, and have probably fallen into technical errors in telling the story of "Tommy," it is not because he is a stranger to me, or because I have not tried to know him.

Only a small part of this story is imagination. Nearly every incident in the book was told me by "Tommy" himself, and while the setting of my simple tale is fiction, the tale itself is fact.

That is why I hope the story of "Tommy" will not only be read by thousands of men in khaki, but by their fathers and mothers and loved ones who bade them go to the Front, and who earnestly pray for their speedy and victorious return, even as I do.

JOSEPH HOCKING.

PRIORS' CORNER, TOTTERIDGE, HERTS, February  

1916.

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