# Issy — A Yankee in the Trenches character guide

> Issy in A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Issy Epstein, Epstein

**First appearance:** 0007-iv-a-few-days-rest-in-billets

## Who they are

A Jewish soldier in the narrator's unit whose humor and wit help carry the men through the grind of trench routine.

## In the story

### [IX: First Sight of the Tanks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_yankee_in_the_trenches_se/chapters/ix-first-sight-of-the-tanks)

A tailor who shoots himself in the hand to get a Blighty wound, lamenting the loss of his thimble finger.

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