Bloody Hell
(in more than one sense)

The Guardian today has an article consisting of interviews with surviving WW1 veterans. It's not happy stuff. But it is moving.

"Six weeks later, a countryman of his killed my three mates. If that had happened before I met that German, I would have damn well killed him. But we never fired to kill. My Number One, Bob, used to keep the gun low and wound them in the legs - bring them down. Never fired to kill them. As far as I know he never killed a German. I never did either. Always kept it low."