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It really gave her what for,<br />
And none <strong>of</strong> her nice nieces would ever get to ask her<br />
‘Aunt <strong>Elsie</strong>, what did you do in the war?’<br />
But all this was 1917<br />
And after three long years <strong>of</strong> that terrible War<br />
Throughout which <strong>Elsie</strong>’d always known<br />
Exactly what she was fighting<br />
And what she was fighting for.<br />
Her father’s daughter --<br />
She’d never minded this, just taken it for the compliment<br />
She knew whoever had come out with it<br />
Certainly meant it to be.<br />
But, Edinburgh Castle, the War Office,<br />
1914, that buffoon in charge <strong>of</strong> the RAMC...!<br />
<strong>Elsie</strong> was not his, nor what he would call<br />
Either a lady or good.<br />
That she’d have to get round this damnable obstacle<br />
<strong>Elsie</strong> well understood…
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