Who were Alf Razzell and Bill Hubbard?”
The voice in ATD of somebody trying to rescue a comrade are those of Alf Razzell, a WWI veteran. Here’s a (small) bit of background to his story (appparently from the same TV special from which Waters took the sound bites): Alf Razzell had the job of collecting the dead soldier’s pocket-books, whatever they are, (some kind of ID thing I expect) and usually the corpse had to be rolled over to get it out of the top pocket. You would then see why the man had died. There were guys with empty brain cavities, faces blown off, limbs blown off and half the time he was walking through intestines of dead men. The Germans picked up Alf and took him to the trenches where he found Bill. The Germans would not help at all. Bill had a large hole in his back exposing his intestines and it was dirty with oil, chalk and all kind of shit from the trenches. The Germans wanted Alf to take him back and to be quick about it but due to the injuries Bill couldn’t stand it and with the Germans getting impatient
