Collins is an infantryman in an unnamed war. As an ongoing battle rages, he watches from safety behind a hill where the infantry is stationed until. However, when he states that he wants a drink…
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The wounded lieutenant
The lieutenant of the battery is a member of Collins’s company who commands an artillery battery, and who at one point rides by the infantrymen. He passes by slowly and calmly on his horse and…
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Collins’s comrades
When Collins expresses his desire for a drink of water from a well located in the middle of a battlefield being bombarded by shells and gunfire, his comrades of the infantry A Company needle him…
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