Mutum na ƙarshe da ya tsira daga ƙwallon ƙafa ta ƙasar ba-mutum ya mutu a ranar 22 ga Yuli, 2001, yana da shekara 106.
Tsoffin sojoji, sun ce, ba za su mutu ba, kawai suna gushewa. Bertie Felstead ya kasance banda. Tsohuwar shi, ya shahara sosai. Ya fi shekara 100, kuma an daɗe yana sanye a gidan kula da tsofaffi a cikin Gloucester, lokacin da Shugaba Jacques Chirac ya ba shi lambar Faransanci ta Légion d'Honneur. Ya kasance sama da 105 lokacin da ya zama mafi tsufa a Biritaniya. Kuma a wancan lokacin ya fi shahara sosai a matsayin wanda ya tsira daga abubuwan tashin hankali na Kirsimeti wanda ya faru a yammacin yamma yayin yakin duniya na farko. Abubuwan da suka faru a lokacin yaƙi sune batun rikici da tatsuniyoyi.
Mr Felstead, a Londoner da kuma lokacin da yake kula da kasuwancin, ya ba da gudummawa don sabis a 1915. Daga bisani a cikin wannan shekarar ya shiga bangare na biyu, da kuma na karshe, na abubuwan Kirsimeti yayin da yake kusa da ƙauyen Laventie a arewacin Faransa. Ya kasance mai zaman kansa a cikin Royal Welch Fusiliers, tsarin mulkin Robert Graves, marubucin daya daga cikin manyan littattafai game da wannan yaki, "Kyau ga dukkanin wannan". Kamar yadda Mr Felstead ya tuna da shi, zaman lafiya ya karu a ranar Kirsimeti Kirsimeti daga layin abokan gaba. Sojoji a can sun raira waƙa, a cikin Jamusanci, waƙar waka ta Welsh "Ar Hyd y Nos". An zabi zabar waƙar yabo a matsayin sanannun sanannun ƙwararrun jam'iyyun da suke adawa da su a yankunan 100, kuma Royal Welch Fusiliers ya amsa ta hanyar "Good King Wenceslas".
Bayan an kwana ana rera waka, Mista Felstead ya tuno, jin dadin alheri ya karu sosai har zuwa wayewar gari sojojin Bavaria da na Birtaniyya sun yiwo izo-na-fito daga sansanoninsu. Ihun irin wannan gaishe-gaishe kamar “Hello Tommy” da “Hello Fritz” da farko sun gaisa da juna a cikin ƙasar da ba ta kowa ba, sannan suka gabatar da junan su da kyaututtuka. An ba da giya ta Jamusawa, tsiran alade da hular hular da aka zana, ko kuma aka fasa, saboda amsar naman shanu, biskit da maɓallan riga.
Wasan wasan kwallon kafa daban daban
Wasan da suka buga shi ne, Mista Felstead ya tuna, wani nau'in ƙwallon ƙafa ne mara kyau. “Ba wasa bane a irin wannan, karin wasa da kuma kyauta ga kowa. Zai yiwu a sami 50 a kowane gefe don abin da na sani. Na taka leda saboda ina matukar son kwallon kafa. Ban san tsawon lokacin da ya kwashe ba, wataƙila rabin sa'a. ” Bayan haka, kamar yadda wani daga cikin Fusiliers ya tuno da shi, wani babban sajan Burtaniya ya kawo dakatar da nishaɗin tare da umartar mutanensa su koma cikin ramuka suna mai tunatar da su cewa sun kasance a can “don yaƙi da Hun, ba don yin abokantaka da su ba ”.
Wannan yunkurin ya taimaka wajen kare mummunan labari na Marxist, misali a cikin mota "Oh, Wannan War War!", Cewa sojojin soja na bangarorin biyu sun yi fatan kawai don rashin kwanciyar hankali, kuma suna da matukar farin ciki ko tilasta su su yi yaƙi da jami'an tsaro kodin ajiyarsu. A hakikanin gaskiya, jami'ai a bangarori biyu sun fara da dama daga cikin abubuwan Kirsimeti a cikin 1915 da kuma hanyoyin da suka fi girma a 1914. Bayan sunyi magana don yarda da ka'idodin tsagaita wuta, yawancin jami'an sun hada da abokan gaba kamar dai yadda mutane suka yi.
A cikin asusunsa na jigilar kaya, Robert Graves ya bayyana dalilin. “[Bataliyarmu] ba ta taɓa barin kanta da wani ra'ayin siyasa game da Jamusawan ba. Aikin ƙwararren soja shine kawai ya yaƙi wanda Sarki ya umurce shi da ya yi yaƙi fra fra Christmas Christmas fra 1914 which fra fra among fra fra tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern tern. al'ada - musayar girmamawa tsakanin hafsoshin sojoji masu adawa da juna. ”
A cewar Bruce Bairnsfather, daya daga cikin manyan mashahuran marubuta na yakin duniya na farko, 'yan Tommies sun kasance kamar yadda aka yi musu rauni. Akwai kuma, ya rubuta, ba wani ƙwayar ƙiyayya a kowane bangare ba a lokacin wadannan halayen, "kuma duk da haka, a gefenmu, ba don wani lokacin da yake so ya ci nasara ba, kuma ya so ya buge su da annashuwa. Ya zama kamar lokacin da ke tsakanin wasanni a wasan wasan kwallon kafa. "
Yawancin asusun Burtaniya na yau da kullun game da tashin hankali suna taimakawa wajen sake kirkirar wani tatsuniya: cewa hukumomi sun kiyaye dukkan ilimin alakar jama'a da jama'a a cikin gida don kar hakan ya lalata tarbiyya. Shahararrun jaridu da mujallu na Burtaniya sun buga hotuna da zane-zane na sojojin Jamusawa da na Burtaniya suna bikin Kirsimeti tare a cikin wani yanki na ba-kowa.
Gaskiya ne, duk da haka, ba a maimaita abubuwan Kirsimeti a shekarun baya na yaƙin ba. Ta hanyar 1916 da 1917 kisan gilla na yakin cacar baki ya haifar da ƙiyayya ƙwarai a ɓangarorin biyu cewa tarurrukan abokantaka a cikin ƙasar ba kowa ba ne amma ba za a iya tsammani ba, har a Kirsimeti.
Mr Felstead ya kasance daga cikin mafi girma daga cikin Tommies. Ya koma gida don maganin asibiti bayan da ya ji rauni a yakin Somaliya a 1916 amma ya dawo ya isa ya cancanci samun sabis na kasashen waje. An aika shi zuwa Salonika, inda ya kama malaria mai tsanani, sa'an nan kuma, bayan bayanan sake farfadowa a Blighty, ya yi aiki a karshen watanni na yaki a Faransa.
Bayan da ya zama dimokuradiyya, sai ya jagoranci wani abu mai ban tsoro, mai daraja. Sai kawai tsawon lokaci ya kawo ƙarshen baƙar fata. Masu rubutun da 'yan jaridu sun yi kira don yin tambayoyi, da kuma tunawa, wani mai shiga tsakani a cikin wani labari mai ban mamaki wanda rayuwarsa ta ƙare a ƙarni uku. Ya gaya musu cewa dukan mutanen Turai, ciki har da Birtaniya da Jamus, ya zama abokai.
