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Williams is a young Irishman who joins the Royal Dublin Fusiliers around the same time Willie does. Williams, Willie, and their third friend Joe Clancy undergo training in Cork and their first experiences of war on the Western Front together. Williams dies in the gas attack near St. Julian in April 1915.
John “Johnnie” Williams Quotes in A Long Long Way
The A Long Long Way quotes below are all either spoken by John “Johnnie” Williams or refer to John “Johnnie” Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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Then Willie found John Williams, Joe Clancy, Joe McNulty. A dozen men and more who had been bound to him by some bond he didn’t know the explanation of. Willie’s very stomach was torn by sorrow, his very eyes were burned by sorrow, as if sorrow itself were a kind of gas.
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John “Johnnie” Williams Quotes in A Long Long Way
The A Long Long Way quotes below are all either spoken by John “Johnnie” Williams or refer to John “Johnnie” Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4
Quotes
Then Willie found John Williams, Joe Clancy, Joe McNulty. A dozen men and more who had been bound to him by some bond he didn’t know the explanation of. Willie’s very stomach was torn by sorrow, his very eyes were burned by sorrow, as if sorrow itself were a kind of gas.
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