'Others took their place' - the louse in the First World War

"The louse bowed neither to Kaiser nor King": we commemorate this First World War centenary and Remembrance Day with Justin Hopper’s prose poem to this tiny but virulent scourge of the trenches, one of the gilded vectors on the School’s Keppel Street facade – 'Others took their place', with extracts from the journals of servicemen fighting on both sides of the conflict. With Robert Falconer and Rebecca Tremain. Music by Emily O'Hara.