Compensation (Back at the wagon lines)

Wagon lines were situated at a distance from the frontlines. Away from the threat of artillery fire, horses could be fed, watered and given an opportunity to rest, and so too soldiers. Here an Australian soldier converses with a young French woman. Her attitude suggests a business transaction is set to take place. British soldier Frederick Manning wrote "segregated males hungered for two fundamental necessities… food and women. In the shuddering revulsion from death one turns instinctively to love as an act which seems to affirm the completeness of being."