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Now It Can Be Told · Character

Charles Geoffrey Vickers

A young officer and friend of the narrator, present in the wet, mud-slathered trenches where a mouth-organ plays carols through the Flanders wind.

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Also known as Vickers, Charlie, himself, you

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Vickers belongs to the intimate world of the trenches rather than the map rooms—the world of men wet to the knees, listening to 'God rest ye, merry gentlemen' while the wind howls across Flanders. He is the human…

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  • Key military and civilian figures
  • Protagonist

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