Case Study:
A British Teenager Caught Up in the First World War: William O’Sullivan Molony
Creator:
Molony, William O'Sullivan
Source:
diary
Date:
31 July 1914
Collection/Fonds:
Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00000547
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
[page 79]
of leaving.
Half-an-hour before the train left, Kathleen volunteered to go—much against her will—she had hitherto shown no signs of patriotism—in fact the very opposite, but it was a great piece of self-sacrifice on her part, when she packed her trunk and left.
Commander H was very upset, as he has quite lost his heart to her—he thought it ridiculous for English people to leave Berlin.
H was charming and we both saw the girls off at 11:0 p.m.
It was a trying day for all of us, and I was very pleased to pop into bed.
I thought of darling little C, and hoped for England’s sake, the world’s sake, that England’s policy would be neutral.