Remembrance, continued.

 The Things that Matter.

Scene: Loos, during the September offensive.

Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from "G. H. Q.":—

"Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday."

Another constant throughout the wars of mankind is the disconnect between the men at the front and those at the back. I imagine even the Romans had these issues. The series of events leading to Roarke's Drift in the Zulu wars included a battle that was lost because, among other things, Quartermasters would only issue bullets to men in their units, and not to others, so the men, under fire, had to search for the correct quartermaster to be able to shoot back.

World War One in particular was known for this disconnect, though. War had never been fought no this scale before, and the support corps grew exponentially to meet the problem. Men were put in charge of even the tiniest of details, and that was their entire job. As such, it may have mattered to them, but to the man under fire, not so much