'It's astonishing how now, in the army--of course it wasn't the same before the war--you forget it entirely.

Who cares whether a man's rich, or who's son he is?
In my batch when I went up to Aldershot there were men of all sorts, stock-brokers, landowners, city men, manufacturers, solicitors, some of them awfully rich, and then clerks, and schoolmasters, and lots of poor devils, like myself.

We didn't care a rap, except whether a man took to his drill, or didn't; whether he was going to keep the Company back or help it on.

And it's just the same in the field.

Nothing counts but what you _are_--it doesn't matter a brass hap'orth what you have.