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Western Mail, Thursday, 29 August 1929, p. 2.
Edith Wharnan
Edith Wharnan, the American novelist tells the following delightful story:- The American wounded were being brought in from the second Marne battle and a fussy-looking woman in a khaki uniform and Sam Browne belt knelt over a stretcher and said:
"Is this an Officer, or only a man?"
The brawny corporal, who stood beside the stretcher, gave her a grim laugh and replied:
"Well, lady, he ain't no officer, but he's been hit twice in the innards, both legs busted, he's got two bullets in both arms, and we dropped him three times without his lettin' out a squeak, so 1 guess ye can call him a man."
Edith Wharton = Edith Newbold Jones aka Edith Wharton, 24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.