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In 1968, R.C. Sherriff, who served as an officer in 9/East Surreys from 1916 to 1918, wrote that his highly successful war play Journey’s End had been criticised because ‘there was too much of the English public schools about it’. Sherriff retorted that ‘Almost every young officer was a public school boy’ and if he had omitted them from Journey’s End , ‘there wouldn’t have been a play at all’. Furthermore, Without raising the public school boy officers onto a pedestal it can be said with certainty that it was they who played the vital part in keeping the men good-humored ( sic ) and obedient in the face of their interminable ill treatment and well-nigh insufferable ordeals. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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