| I remember my Great Uncle Billy telling me about seeing the state of the harbour-front not that long after the explosion, when he was returned through Halifax having lost a leg at Passchendaele.
Of course it was just a wee taste of what he'd seen in France and Belgium. Which is sort of the point what with a ship full of munitions...
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |