Great War Stories 2 - Ormond Burton

For 12 hours on end an orderly would be alone with 60 desperately wounded men.

– Ormond Burton, on a hospital boat off Gallipoli

Victory had not brough a new world, and we saw in a flash of illumination that it never could. War is just waste and destruction.

– Ormond Burton

You believe that by jailing me that you can prison my ideas. I believe you have only helped to let them lose on the world.

– Burton writing to a judge, while jailed for pacifism

A certain German person fired a rifle at me and made a nice little hole in my left arm.

– Ormond Burton writing hime to his sister Marjorie