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106 Essays, Poems, and Letters, are 'still in love with Pitt and hankering after the return of their lost leader.' One of his students, in a number of the College Journal published just after Bernard Pitt's death, bears testimony to the fineness of his character, the range and depth of his knowledge of literature, the efficacy of his comradely, unconventional method of teaching, and the affectionate regard in which all his pupils held him. 'When the War came,' writes this one of his class, 'there was a great change. He was restless, and we were amazed to find that he had joined the Colours. He was the last man, we thought, that the War would call upon; he was among the first. How he bore himself as a soldier is told elsewhere. We are proud of him—our man, our leader.... His students feel that they owe a debt to the College. By coming there they knew Bernard Pitt.'

Before the end of 1915 he was in France serving as a trench mortar officer, and in February 1916 was given command of a battery. In the following April he was