Never such innocence Never before or since
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11 April 2014
Department of Public Health seminar
University of Otago, Wellington
Words and images from World War One
Never such
innocence
Never before or
since Philip Larkin, MCMXIV
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C. R. W. Nevinson, Paths of Glory 1917
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Fernand Léger, Verdun
‘I could see out over an area
of ten square kilometres ….
The men were all so tiny and
lost in it that I could hardly
see them.
A shell fell in the midst of
these little things, which
moved for a moment,
carrying off the wounded -
the dead, as unimportant as
so many ants, were left
behind.’
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Georges Leroux, Hell
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We are unfeeling
dead who, through
some dangerous trick
of magic, are still
able to run and kill.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on
the Western Front
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C. R. W. Nevinson, The Harvest of Battle
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‘Here, among the
massacred trees which in
the fog surrounded us in
a ghostly scene,
everything was
shapeless, there was not
a piece of wall even, not
a fence or gate still
standing’
Henri Barbusse, Le Feu
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Paul Nash, Void
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‘From time to time one of us
disappeared up to their waist in
the mud, and if our comrades had
not come to their rescue, holding
out their rifle butt, they would
certainly have gone under. …
Traces of blood on the surface of
some heavy shell-holes told us
that several men had already
been swallowed up.’
Ernst Jünger, Storms of Steel
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Henry Tonks, Saline infusion
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Do you remember the stretcher-
cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling
heads-those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once
were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the
green of the spring that you’ll
never forget.
Siegfried Sassoon, Aftermath
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An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918” by Henry Tonks An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918” by Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks, An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918
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In the horizontal abyss,
extending stretcher after
stretcher, gradually getting
smaller as far as the eye
could see, out towards the
pale opening of daylight,
the bric-a-brac of limbs
and heads moving,
cries and moans waking
one another and spreading
like invisible ghosts.
Henri Barbusse, Le Feu
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Ugo Matania, Verdun hospital
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A whole night long
crouched close
to one of our men
butchered
with his clenched
mouth
grinning at the full moon
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Vigil
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Bill Lewis, World War One
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Wilfred Owen Dulce et decorum est
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Otto Dix, Transplantation, 1924
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Bloody saliva
Dribbles down his
shapeless jacket.
I saw him stab
And stab again
A well-killed B.
This is the happy warrior,
This is he...
Herbert Read, The Happy Warrior
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Adolf Erbslöh, Destroyed Forest near Verdun, 1916
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Who know it wasn't I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands...
Though I must bear the blame,
Because he bore my name
Wilfred Gibson, Back
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Austin Osman Spare, Operating in a Regimental Aid Post, 1918
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Study
Neck-deep in mud,
He mowed and raved -
He who had braved
The field of blood
Wilfred Gibson, Mad (1914)
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Georges Paul Leroux, Soldats enterrant leurs camarades au clair de lune, 1915
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When you see millions of the
mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale
battalions go,
Say not soft things as other
men have said,
That you'll remember. For you
need not so.
Give them not praise. For deaf,
how should they know
Charles Hamilton Sorley, 1915
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Gassed soldiers