2014+Hold+the+Oxo!

=Hold the Oxo!: A Teenage Soldier Writes Home=

By Marion Fargey Brooker
"//Dear Mother and Father // // The average dugout in the front line holds about two and you have to curl up in some peculiar shapes in some of them. There are three of us in the one dugout now and one lad had some rolled oats and we made porridge. It was the first porridge I’ve had since I left England and it was certainly good. // // You asked me how the sox were for size – well that pair that Aileen sent is just right size and good and long in the leg and they are not too thick and easy to wash but I have plenty of sox already. Will you send a little tin of cocoa as it is very good in the trenches when you come in rather chilly. You needn’t send any more Oxo. We don’t use it much. //// Don’t worry now, Mother, I will be alright. // // Your loving son, // // Jim" //

Approximately 20,000 underage soldiers served overseas in World War 1. Jim, only 17 when he left for war, was one of these teenagers. With quotes from Jim’s letters and diary, //Hold The Oxo! A Teenage Soldier Writes Home //tells the story between the lines of his life on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. 