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It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed.
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I always remember my disappointment the next morning when I found that my hand was still on because I thought, well, if I lost my hand I'm all right, I shall live, they can't send me out without a hand again. I was 20 then, it's not altogether a right thought for a young man to hope that he's been maimed for life.
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Yes, sir. My battalion is famous for self-inflicted wounds and just to make sure I cracked my skull with a rifle butt as well and ran a bayonet into my groin.
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I thought I was doing my duty for my country. I didn't know I was going to be treated like a convict. Did it make better soldiers of the callow youths we were then? I doubt it.
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Arnold Ridley
Born:
January 7, 1896
Died:
March 12, 1984
(aged 88)
Bio:
William Arnold Ridley was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Godfrey in the British sitcom Dad's Army.
Known for:
Dad's Army (1968 – 1977)
The Ghost Train (1941)
Crooks in Cloisters (1964)
Stolen Face (1952)
The Amorous Milkman (1975)
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