The songs of the period, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian, USian, French, German, Turkish, Italian..., written at the time, tend to be as cutting and dismissive of the military leadership as those written much later.
Good heavens, any examples that go beyond typical military "black humour" coupled with their inherent ability to laugh at themselves and at any situation and under any circumstances they found themselves in.

"Gorizia tu sei maledetta" (which I posted about in a recent thread on the Battle of Gorizia) goes a very long way beyond that.


Not quite true. I bought Christmas trees for years at the War Memorial Hall in Rathfarnham, Dublin
May 2008. No veterans were left by then.

The memorial hall predates 2008 by a rather long time. As you could easily have found out:

World War I Memorials in Ireland

There really aren't any excuses for being that fucking pig-ignorant these days.